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Starting the First Seeds of 2010
I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in. In it are all of this year’s...
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32nd Birthday, extreme version
Delancey :: bar and kitchen Yesterday wasn’t a big birthday, but it was my birthday nonetheless and sometimes you have to celebrate even the unexciting years in a BIG way. Hence the fun fest that was...
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Celebrating Spring
Spring arrived with a bit of a warm bluster around here. It wasn’t quite the day we’d planned, for a lot of reasons, but spring began anyway and it started with cleaning and seedlings. While Mike...
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Ahhh, Asparagus
I never liked asparagus as a child. I’m not sure why, there was just something about the taste. Sometime in the past 5 or 6 years I’ve discovered it and now I wait all year for it to come into...
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Chicken Butchering 2010
Yesterday was the “great chicken harvest of 2010″. A fantastic mix of friends, family and acquaintances came together to butcher 99 broilers for our freezers. It’s amazing how much faster and more...
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Catching Up
After weeks of the weather and other plans conspiring against me getting caught up in the garden, 8 hours with my hands in the dirt today has me feeling much better. Plus, the nights have been so cold...
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First Strawberry Harvest
This really has been the strangest spring. It rained and rained and rained all through June, leaving us berryless from our own garden and even from the farmstand. The rain has finally stopped and even...
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Spring has been a shy tease this year, days upon days of rain are followed by just one or two days of sun and then it goes back to dreary and wet. The pastures are weeks behind where they should be, we...
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Garden Plan 2011
Sometimes rightsizing feels like giving up or in or something. This year’s garden will be 50% of the size of the one I had the last 2 years. I’m keeping the center rows, those with the best dirt, and...
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Garden Plan 2012
Daylight savings time has kicked me into garden high gear, after months of hemming and hawing about what the plan was going to be. I hit the farm store on Sunday for my seeds at 40% off, plus potato...
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