growing your own food
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A Visit to Another Farm and Spinach Stuffed Chicken Thighs
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Scape Stuffed Mushrooms
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Some of the Tomatoes Make it in the Ground and the Fowl Get a Fence
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Raspberry Breakfast Bars and Rendering Lard
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Buffalo Wing Kimchi and Copper Plant Markers
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Planning Out Next Years Garden: Part Two
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Planning Out the Next Years Garden: part one
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Keep Improving Your Situation
There used to be a show on the television where they dropped two guys off in the middle of nowhere and saw if they could survive. One of them had a coin phrase and it was to “keep improving your situation.” Each day and sometimes each hour he’d look for ways to better his surroundings. Did he have water? Yes. Great. Now let’s work on shelter. Did he have shelter? Yes. Now let’s set some traps to get something to eat. To quote Disney, “He kept moving forward.” And that’s what we like to do here on the Farm. Do we have a garden planted? Great. Now, let’s look at…
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Plan for your Winter Storage Now: The Root Pit
Plan for your Winter Food Storage Now: The Root Pit Before refrigerators, people used many different methods to preserve their food. Many of which we have or will go over in detail on this site: Canning. Salting. Curing. Fermentation. Smoking. Food Cellars. And this, probably the most primitive of all: The Root Pit. It’s just how it sounds, a pit is dug, lined with straw, and root veggies (and a cabbage or ten) are stacked there, only to be covered with more straw, where they wait until the day a hungry farmer loosens the straw and pulls out the slightly brine-ee veggies for him and his family to have for…
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Three Sisters Gardening, Bayberry Candles, and S’mores Kits
Yes. You heard correctly. The Farmer’s Wife will be posting a podcast each and every Wednesday. To hear this week’s edition for yourself, click on the picture below. Cheers.
