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Archive of entries posted on April 2010

The Best Salads

Ok, so I’m a kitchen tool junkie.  I love anything to do with cooking and kitchen, whether old or new.  I’ve owned a wide assortment of kitchen tools from my favorite Kitchen Aid stand mixer to a Mr. Bacon Cooker (which I hated).  One gadget that I had not procured until recently was a salad [...]

Somewhere over the rainbows…..

   Yes, I said over the “rainbows”.  Saturday was a very unsettled day around here as far as the weather was concerned.  The weather folks were predicting strong storms, lots of rain, thunder, lightning, hail….so we were all “on our toes” so to speak, and spent most of the afternoon battening down the hatches.  The [...]

Open Farm Day

Last Saturday was Open Farm for new members of Wild Things’ CSA.  Many of the new members, as well as returning members, enjoyed the sunshine and wandering around the farm.  Oliver the cat got in on the action…. Whitt the horse enjoyed a facial massage as well!  The weather cooperated beautifully and everyone got to [...]

Babies on the farm

Lots of farmers will be saying this over the next few weeks “Look at the cute little chicks”!  And are they cute….little balls of fluff that make lots of noise.   I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night worried about them being too hot or too cold, so I’ve been treking the [...]

The hands of a gardener

Did you ever stop to think about how much of our food never touches a human hand?  To me, that’s scary.  I have three beautiful Red Star chickens and each day they lay three beautiful brown eggs.  I enjoy those eggs, as do my closest friends.  My best friend said she had to buy eggs [...]

Irrigation, please

With today being April Fool’s Day I kept trying to come up with some kind of April Fool’s joke, but was just too busy with springtime chores!  This weather has been so awesome for getting crops going that it’s hard to stop.  I did play an April Fool’s joke on myself, though. Each fall I [...]