After my last post about the horrifying rate of chicken attrition (Note to self, new band name: Chicken Attrition), we lost two more, bringing our total number of hens down to two. (One had her neck b… more →
soilentgreenswrote 7 months ago: After my last post about the horrifying rate of chicken attrition (Note to self, new band name: Chic … more →
wrote 8 months ago: I’m pissed. I was pissed when I read this bullshit piece from Stanford, then got even MORE pis … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Confessional time: I’ve been busy. So busy in fact that I’ve somehow managed to keep two … more →
wrote 11 months ago: So, faced with the awful prospect of any amount of our prodigious harvest going to waste (see Exhibi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Tractor of death. The tree in the foreground is on our side of the property line. Yesterday morning, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: We got this farm for several reasons. One of those, that I’ll speak to today, is preparedness. … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I had intended to post this morning with some photos from the farm, depicting the bounty that spring … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I cruise around the Internet all the time, as I’m sure you all do. Sometimes my occasional sid … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I never intended for this blog to be about the evils of GMOs, but more and more I’m inclined t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A fellow blogger asked about heirloom/non-GMO seed sources in the UK . So I applied my deft Google-f … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A fellow blogger asked me to expound on the topic of heirloom/organic vs. hybrid/organic seeds. I … more →
wrote 1 year ago: So.Much.Hate #1 Bana, this is the scope of the problem. It has taken over the chicken yard, the big … more →
wrote 1 year ago: What a fantastic weekend at El Rancho Loco. Chef had to work on Saturday till about 3:00, and I mana … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday was the day I finally got to feel like a “farmer.” And frankly, it wasn’ … more →
wrote 1 year ago: So here’s the part where I admit that we might have bitten off more than we can chew, financia … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This was a super-big weekend for El Rancho Loco, when the partner had a rare two-day weekend off. Ma … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Musk thistle, Sow thistle, Bull thistle, Variegated thistle, Prickly lettuce. They are the bane of m … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Watch this AWESOME video where the cutest little girl explains the difference between a real potato … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I just happened to glance over at my work table (kitty-corner from the computer desk) and noticed th … more →