We have been working on a no-knead bread recipe that we can make with minimal effort and few ingredients. This bread is SO much better than any store bought bread we’ve ever tasted, and it costs less than $1.50/loaf to make. We’ve had success baking this in our tiny propane oven in a 12” or […]
Our gardening is pretty much done for this year, but surprisingly there are still broccoli, cabbage, kale, spinach, cauliflower and lots of cilantro still slowly growing. In March of this year we started weighing our garden harvests and keeping a simple log that includes the date, fruit/vegetable, and weight of everything we harvested. We currently
We finally got enough cedar milled to start covering the walls of the workshop. My dad took these pictures while he’s been helping. We have two of the four walls done except for windows and doors.
We got our first harvest of broccoli from our fall garden. We’ve never grown it before, and are completely impressed. It’s so much sweeter than store-bought – as is true with most everything we grow ourselves. We have lots more coming, along with three different types of cabbage and some cauliflower. The garden looks a
We finally have the roof on the workshop after many delays and much procrastination. We put a chest freezer in it to keep all of our frozen fruit and veggies at our house. We had been borrowing freezer space at my folks, which was less than ideal for everyone. The next step is to get
We received about 6 1/2 inches of rain this past week as what was left of Harvey came through Tennessee. That much rain caused the Shiitake mushroom logs to start fruiting like crazy. We have yet to see any Oyster mushrooms from this years inoculated Poplar logs.
In October of 2016, we bought a 3-pound bag of garlic from Sam’s Club. We broke the heads apart and planted about 2 pounds of cloves into a raised bed in rows about 10″ apart. We harvested the garlic once the bottom 2 or 3 leaves started to yellow and die. We got an amazing
Sarah’s BFF from Phoenix, AZ came to visit in late June. We picked her up in Nashville and she was on the homestead for one day before she and Sarah took off for Englewood, FL to see Sarah’s family and frolic in the sun and sea for a week. When they returned, Kim got a
We inoculated 18 Poplar logs with Oyster mushroom sawdust spawn this spring in addition to the Shiitake logs from 2 years ago. You can read that post, here. With any luck we will have Oyster mushrooms starting this summer or fall. Last year the Shiitake logs were prolific and we gave away, froze or dehydrated all
Sarah teaches The Scarlet Letter to her high school students and she is reading Jon Ronson’s book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Along those same lines we have a new rooster that keeps wanting to do battle with us, so I thought I would try some public shaming to see if he would be less