It’s great when you see one of those rare images and the camera is actually handy. A few weeks ago while piddling around with the tractor I spied Oliver the cat sitting on a fence post just a few feet away from me. The proverbial “Halloween Cat”. He is an important part of the critter [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2009
Taters for Sale
The potatoes are all dug and sacked up and there are about 12 bushels available for sale. The potatoes are Kennebec variety, the most popular white potato grown in this neck of the woods. They keep for most of the winter in a cool place like a cellar, garage, or utility room. A bushel is [...]
Turnips
I think there should be a new crayon color called “Turnip”. Isn’t that a beautiful color? Five years ago I wouldn’t have “touched a turnip with a 10-foot pole”, but now I look forward to pulling the first ones out of the ground. I have a new recipe, that’s why! I never understood how anyone [...]
Chicken Tractor
Recently, a small flock of Red Star chickens was added to the Wild Things’ “zoo”. The chickens are housed in a portable pen or “tractor” as they are called, so they can be moved around the farm during the day to eat insects and spent garden plants, as well as fertilize wherever they’ve been. See [...]
It’s ‘tater time in Tennessee
This year I was fortunate enough to have a friend dig the potatoes with a 1940′s vintage potato digger. It scoops up the potatoes, tumbles them along a conveyor type belt of steel rods to get most of the soil off, them dumps them out on the ground–that’s when the work starts, picking them up [...]
Eggcellent Eggplant
In spite of the extremely wet weather this gardening season, the eggplant did very well. To help members find creative ways to use eggplant, I tried this recipe and it is quite tasty. I did freeze a few of them to see how they fare when being thawed and reheated, but that hasn’t happened yet. [...]