I sat down this week to peruse and place the big annual seed order, one of the coziest and most delightful of winter tasks. Last year I nestled in close to a warm fire, with wind and snow whipping against the windows, the view a sheet of pure white. This year, not so … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Choosing Seeds
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Full and By Farm: Community Thanks
A cold and quiet week has passed at the farm. Entering numbers into computer programs and trying my best to decipher employment tax forms, finally getting to a field plan for next season's vegetables and putting in a potato order (a seed crop that is in drastically … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Community Thanks
Full and By Farm: Butchering the Bull
We tackled Hal this week, at least the front quarters of him, and he's proven to be quite formidable. Beef is generally hung to age in four quarters, then each quarter is carried up to the butcher shop to be further broken down into the various cuts. In Hal's case we cut the … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Butchering the Bull
Full and By Farm: “Boy, that’s one good potato.”
"Boy, that's one good potato" is a sentiment expressed around our house a lot lately. It's been a few weeks since we dug into the bags of russet potatoes and I haven't wanted to look back since. Moist, firm, waxy, dry and mealy are the terms bandied about in seed catalogues to … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: “Boy, that’s one good potato.”
Full and By Farm: Cattle Escape in the Night
A few months ago I would have just about taken a nap in the pasture with our beloved bull Hal. We raised him up since he was a wee one and he payed the perfect amount of attention to us as well as kept the perfect amount of distance from us. Calmly moving when we asked him to … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Cattle Escape in the Night