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The Breakfast Club2 comments

leicalady wrote 4 days ago: Their are five members and one guest member. Five canines and one feline. The rules are that they co … more →

Tags: Australian Shepherd, Dachshunds, Dogs, farm animals, miss piggy, pigs, Pot-Bellied Pigs, Spoiled pets, The Breakfast Club

The musical fruit12 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 6 days ago: I promise this will be the final word on this years dry bean harvest.  The final threshing of the be … more →

Tags: family cow, farm life, Feed yourself, heirloom vegetables, Seed saving, Self-Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed

Naked seed pumpkin15 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 3 weeks ago: The jury is still out on the naked seed pumpkin in our garden.  The idea of seeds you can just eat s … more →

Tags: food preservation, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, farm life, Seed saving, heirloom vegetables, Feed yourself, Self-Sufficiency, frugal farming

Separating the beans from the chaff8 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 1 month ago: Growing dry beans in our area is as touch and go as field corn.  While we have a long mild growing s … more →

Tags: Early Days, farm life, frugal farming, heirloom vegetables, lost skills, Seed saving, Self-Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening, winter stores

Honk if you're corny16 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 1 month ago: Growing some crops west of the Cascades can be a gamble most years.  I’ll let the photos tell … more →

Tags: zero mile foodshed, farm life, Vegetable Gardening, heirloom vegetables, Self-Sufficiency

What! Exotics at Meat & Potato Farm?11 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 1 month ago:     Yeah, I’m guilty!  Catch my post about the many uses of Hardy Kiwi over at Simple, Green, … more →

Tags: winter stores, zero mile foodshed, farm life, fruit gardening, Self-Sufficiency, Organic Fruit

Labels28 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 1 month ago:   I don’t like labels much, most that people apply to us don’t fit too well.  Most peopl … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Early Days, farm life, heirloom vegetables, Seed saving, Vegetable Gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed

Waiting for winter now in the garden19 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 1 month ago: I have no idea where summer went, at the time I thought the hot days would never end.  Now on the ot … more →

Tags: winter stores, zero mile foodshed, farm life, Vegetable Gardening, Feed yourself, Self-Sufficiency, over-winter vegetables

It's definitely fall37 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 2 months ago: A collection of dry pole bean pods sunning themselves in the bay window. Final harvest of Bellstar t … more →

Tags: farm life, winter stores, zero mile foodshed

One potato, two potato14 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 2 months ago: The calendar tells us it is fall, but the short days along with the golden and purple hues of the ga … more →

Tags: Agriculture, farm life, Feed yourself, frugal farming, Self-Sufficiency, Vegetable Gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed

A watershed moment25 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 2 months ago: Well actually, a watershed day.  In search of the wily chanterelle. Butter comes to mind when I see … more →

Tags: winter stores, zero mile foodshed, farm life, wildlife, frugal living, Feed yourself, Pacific Northwest forest, the woods

Sunday Stills Challange9 comments

Trapper Creek Daughter wrote 2 months ago: This challenge is a little different from the others – the rule of thirds.  Instead having a c … more →

Tags: Critters, dew, fog, Moon, [night-shots], Photography, Sunday Stills Challenge, photograghy, Sunset

Up to my eyeballs in preserving9 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 2 months ago: So this won’t be much of a post.  But I do have a good story for you, and some miscellaneous p … more →

Tags: food preservation, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, farm life, Vegetable Gardening, canning, Preserving the Harvest

Sunup to sundown in pictures16 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 3 months ago: Moulin Rouge. Corn Dog. 14 qts of beans in the making. Melvin guarder of carrots. Ruthless’ ha … more →

Tags: food preservation, winter stores, farm as desired, farm life, Feed yourself, vegetables. gardening

We love our Mountain Doo17 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 3 months ago: Mountain Doo farm style!  The feeding sheds are cleaned out, and the manure bedding mix is stacked s … more →

Tags: Agriculture, cattle, Compost, farm life, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, composted animal manure

BS and blueberries25 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 3 months ago: The new kid on the block, Adolf will be visiting for 6 weeks   He’s promised to provide us wit … more →

Tags: winter stores, farm life, cattle, fruit gardening

RETRO KIWI POP: SLICE OF HEAVEN

horiwood wrote 3 months ago: The reggae band Herbs and music legend, Dave Dobbyn once collaborated down under in New Zealand for … more →

Tags: New Zealand, Maori, reggae, New Zealand Music, kiwipop, Dogs, Music, Hori, Herbs

Trials in the garden8 comments

matronofhusbandry wrote 3 months ago: Not the bad kind, the test kind. I’m kind of a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix … more →

Tags: winter stores, farm as desired, zero mile foodshed, farm life, Seed saving, Vegetable Gardening, heirloom vegetables, Feed yourself, Self-Sufficiency

Wordless Wednesday1 comment

Trapper Creek Daughter wrote 3 months ago: … more →

Tags: harvest, Hay, Photography, Wordless Wednesday, farm life, Haying, Sunset


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