Last night Stewart finished up the meat bird coop so the last chore I remember before sunset is hauling buckets of chirping chicks to their new home. Annabelle scoffed at the idea when I presented it to her but when Daddy walked up moments later with a bucket, it became at once brilliant and hilarious….
I have read many of the horror stories – and many of the success stories – from homesteaders raising the infamous Cornish Cross breed of meat chicken. So as we discussed the possibility of this being the year we would try growing a flock of meat birds, we weren’t really sure which breed we might…
It is generally said that milk kefir is an aerobic culture. This means that, much like kombucha and sourdough, it requires oxygen for the yeast aspect of the culture to thrive. This is also why stirring a sourdough starter tends to help with the formation of a larger quantity of yeasts in proportion to bacteria….
All last week was pretty warm so we decided to go ahead and get most of the spring garden in. As we have expanded our growing spaces, we tend to have one to two very full weeks of garden preparation and sowing every spring. So last week we set school aside, let the dishes and…
