Two Weeks Ago We finished the Chicken Field expansion and Stewart estimates the new garden area to be around 1/8 of an acre. The pallet garden is about half of that and has peas, lettuce, collards, onions, and potatoes. This area now contains the smallest sprouts of green beans and collards as well as a couple of…
Potatoes are one of our family’s most favored foods. They are inexpensive and filling; simple but incredibly satisfying. They pair well with just about everything and if we’re not eating them for supper you might see them with eggs for breakfast. Our boys – eight and ten – feel strongly about fried potatoes for breakfast….
A few weeks ago Stewart walked into the house with a package and declared “Hey, I think this is your book!“. I think I was standing at the stove, deep into the canning of a large longhorn bull. One or two of the children was also under the weather so I was a bit preoccupied….
October marked five years that we have inhabited this land, working towards creating a sustainable off-grid homestead on the five acres put into our care. As is often the case, this series is me stumbling through the agrarian process, finding my way through the dirt, in words. I had tried, for weeks and months now, to write about…
