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Do you want to get those birds processed before Labor Day weekend? We have a few processing dates coming up. If you need service, we can help! We will be processing: on Friday, September 2nd and Saturday, September 3rd. Butchering/Processing We conduct small animal processing for customers, this includes ducks, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and even […]
Whenever we have guests we try to make a dessert. We were having an extra 10 guests for dinner so we opted on cobbler. We had peaches which we canned the week before, frozen raspberries from our garden, and some frozen blackberries we bought. We decided to make two different cobblers which both turned out […]
On today’s podcast Monica and I interview Paul Munsen, the president of Sun Oven International. We discuss solar cooking as well as some of the great things his company is doing in developing countries. Paul and his Sun Oven are improving the health of indigenous people in developing countries by harnessing the power of the […]
So, this morning, I woke up realizing it was potluck Sunday at our church and I was supposed to bring a main dish and dessert! Last night I had assigned the dessert to Linde and she had wonderful chocolate chip cookies ready to go. I, on the other hand, had not even thought about the […]
To read part 1 go here: Surprise Chickens 1. I wanted to write a quick update on our mother hen and her chicks. She brooded without any assistance. No heat lamps, water, shelter or food nearby. She came out of the woods with 11 chicks. She’s a scrapper and a fierce mama even though she’s a […]
I’ve always enjoyed cooking, it’s something I’ve considered a serious hobby. I delight in making delicious and attractive food. I’ve also prided myself on my ability to learn to use new types of food from whatever area we happen to be living. When we lived in the south I learned to cook okra, hush puppies, […]
One of the things we decided to do this year was to improve our “grid down” back up plan especially in the area of cooking. I’ve always relied on our propane stove because I can just light it with a lighter if the electricity is out, but in a true grid-down situation we may not […]
Here we are in the hottest month of the year in N Idaho and we’ve had nothing but clouds, rain, and even T-storms!! So, my first day of off-grid cooking was a little disappointing since I had planned on using my All-American sun oven! No worries, I made a switch and decided to focus in […]
Really cool surprise today. Our production breed layer hatched out 11 chicks which was a total surprise! We didn’t even know it. To be honest we haven’t been doing head counts because we have a lot of birds and we don’t lock up our coop at night. At least for now our predator problem has […]
The hoop house is producing like crazy except for the long keepers and Italian paste. Those two tomatoes aren’t ripe yet but they should have no problem doing so over the next month. We definitely have a lot of food preservation in our future. We expect to get 100s of pounds of tomatoes and peppers […]
