Last summer Tony raised hogs and was able to bring back a large store of meat. Many pot roasts later he finally got around to making the most popular pork product of all – bacon. I’m not much of a bacon fan (no offense to those who wrap candy bars with it) but I was […]
Category Archives: Body Alive!
Sleep…Now They’ll Sleep
Sunday, July 29, 2012
I don’t know about you but the first thing that comes to mind when I see poppies is the scene of the poppy field in The Wizard of Oz (or the Seinfeld episode about Elaine testing positive for Opium). And that may be my reason for wanting to grow poppies in our garden this year…to […]
Deck Building 101
Sunday, July 15, 2012
To sustain the momentum of his summer farming experiment or maybe just to make up for the neglect during my summer solo homeowner experiment, Tony has been super project oriented and the major task of the early summer was a backyard deck. Planning began in the fall when he decided to prematurely remove the concrete […]
How to Spell Chicken
Sunday, May 20, 2012
I’ve yet to give a proper introduction to our backyard chickens. So as not be playing favorites with the goats… Below is a video of the winter day in February when we picked up eight Rhode Island Red pullets from a farm out in Parker, Colorado and ushered them into their new home. The brood has been an […]
Milk of Goat
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tonight we had a “fun with logos” Photoshop session. If (or maybe when) we start branding our milk and cheese we’ve decided on labeling as such… Quick, to the sticker making machine (ahem, printer).
Hen Habitat
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The backyard coop is complete! Here it is in the final getting together phases: Tony used Colorado Pine Beetle-Kill wood for the siding and protected it with used motor oil taken from my brother in law’s work. I actually put in a […]
Rice n’ Roll
Sunday, February 5, 2012
We’ve had a bag of sushi rice in our cupboard for over a year (it’s even survived a move…or two) patiently waiting to be rolled in seaweed. The bag must have been an impulsive and not fully thought out purchase – as we didn’t immediately run home and attempt to make our own yummy sushi. […]
Bock! Bock! Who’s There?
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The chicken coop is near completion and I cannot wait ’til the chickens come home to roost. Wait, I think that means, well, nevermind… Still, it’ll be nice to stop paying $6 for local farm fresh eggs, walk outside and grab a few backyard farm fresh eggs for the morning scrambler. Tony and his dad […]
Some Like it Chaud!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Geraldine and Josephine have arrived on the Free Earth Farm urban edition scene. It took a bit of coaxing (and a higher wire fence) to get them to remain in their new living quarters – see previous post for the making of that structure – but now they seem right at home. Tony found this […]
Shed No More
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Tony is hard at work this winter transforming our backyard into the urban version of his West Virginia farm dreams. The central fixture of the yard used to be a beat up metal shed with no doors. It housed some scrap wood, shovels in several stages of disrepair, and our worm compost. It was also […]