Wait, those dried ears of corn hanging from the rafter all winter aren’t just for decoration? Let’s see what we can make… We made corn tortillas out of homemade Masa using bloody butcher corn we grew & dried! Local eats! Watch our how-to/hey-look video by Mary Grace starring Tony Terrafranca.
Category Archives: Body Alive!
Hoop, High, Green
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Our recent project on the farm is assembling a green house (aka High Tunnel, aka Hoop House) to lengthen our growing season and diversify our garden. The first task was finding the flattest spot on our very steep land to fit a 48′ structure, which made the ideal spot a hike up the mountain from our […]
On Contour
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Today we broke ground on the garden! With days of rain and little time in between for the ground to dry there’s been zero opportune time to till. The ground still wasn’t ideal but Tony fought with the tiller and dug one row. We planted carrots, beets, kale, radish, peas, kohl rabi; and broadcasted spinach […]
See There – Shakes
Saturday, August 31, 2013
The hemlock siding has gone up – board and batten style – and cedar shakes line the gables on each end!
Tops and Bottoms
Saturday, August 24, 2013
The roof is up! Remarkable what a shiny new top will do to a house. Our hope was to find tin resembling the color of tarnished copper turned green (reminiscent of Paris rooftops). No such luck so we went with a light blue instead. Check it out – a sky emulating lid; house wrapped and ready for […]
Seed Stash
Saturday, August 3, 2013
This year’s garden had a lot of volunteer crops make an appearance – lettuce, kale, radish, carrots – completely unintentional though I’ve recently learned lettuce and kale when left to bolt and flower reseed themselves. The carrots were crap to eat but the lettuce was a nice welcome as it came much earlier than anything […]
A Very Good Place to Start
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Before I forge ahead with our West Virginia home story, I’ll take a few steps back and show the beginning stages of “building” – which look more like stages of destruction but, hey, creation from chaos. There were originally three houses on the land Tony shares with his brother and when they first bought the […]
King of Carrot Flowers
Saturday, September 22, 2012
We harvested what was left of the root veggies (beets, turnips, carrots) and put 1/3 of the garden to bed before leaving on our big vacation. We’re hoping by storing them (unwashed with tops clipped) in the basement mini-fridge they’ll last us through the winter. Most of the carrots crowded because we didn’t thin them. […]
Punching the Bag
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Lately we’ve been contemplating giving up the goats… It’s not an easy decision. We’ve weighed both our financial and effort pros + cons but are still unsure how to weigh the emotional/uniqueness of experience the ladies offer and if that should trump all rationale. Major con is that Tony milks them twice a day and […]
Little Miss Muffet
Friday, September 7, 2012
This month we’re participating in Denver’s HaHo Market, a handmade and homemade local market showcasing food and craft grown and produced in Denver homes and backyards. We’ll be at Green Spaces offering our goat cheese and garden veggies. We’ve been making chevre for months now but Tony also recently started two batches of brie and […]