We recently became the proud owners of 7 bushels of tomatoes and 2 bushels of peppers. They weren’t grown by us, they were seconds given to us by a woman we know who works for a farm. Needless to say, we’ve been making a lot of sauce. I found this recipe and I highly recommend it! While working our way through the many pounds of tomatoes, Steve suggested altering the recipe a bit to get a Roasted Tomato Soup. I…
Wait, wait, wait, WHAT?! A maple sugaring post before the Autumnal Equinox even?! Yes, and for good reason. We might be five to six months away from the sap run, but now is the time to identify which trees we want to tap come February. We’ve tapped the same couple of trees for 3 seasons straight, and we want to tap a few more this year to increase our yields. While I’ve made a mental note every spring to scout…
How’s the house project going? Well, we originally hoped that we’d be on the finishing touches right about now. Unfortunately, right at the beginning of the project we found we’d need to move the gas meter, and waiting for National Grid to get that taken care of put us eight weeks behind schedule. So we still have a way to go. But we’re not talking about that. We’re going to talk about the progress we HAVE made! The boys are thrilled with the…
With all of our goats dry (not milking), we’ve had a little bit of extra time this year. We’re certainly missing the raw milk, but we are grateful for the opportunity to think about the coming months and year and how we may be able to accomplish more next year than this one. If not even for the chance to plan, this rest from milking was realistically even necessary – we went from having 3 boys who could eat, use…
What? It’s almost August?? Somehow it’s the second half of July and I feel like we’ve done absolutely nothing this summer. That isn’t true, but it certainly feels like it. Here’s what’s going on: The house project has stalled. It took National Grid eight weeks to move the gas line so that the next part of the project could keep going. In that time, our contractor’s crew started working on another job (and frankly, I don’t blame him), and we’re…