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Household Canning
I have made an effort this year to improve my canning skills for two reasons. First, having fresh produce throughout the winter , organically grown here on the farm, even if is is canned, is still better for you that the produce bought in the grocery store in January. I know where it came from […]
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High tunnel raised bed
The high tunnel has been a very great investment. I experimented this year with growing the same tomatoes and cucumbers outside that I did in the high tunnel and I can say the high tunnel produced at least 60%, if not more, of those same varieties of tomatoes and cucumber. Here we are working on […]
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Summer keeps on going
We continue to have a good harvest of tomatoes, and peppers. It is almost the third week in September and although we have had a few close calls with frost, we have not had any killing frosts. It si nice because all the vegetables came in a little late so we are able to continue […]
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Onions and potatoes
As we continue to work on supplying a more consistent and diverse product line to our customers I am happy with my onion harvest so far. We grew potatoes last year and again this year but I have never grown onions and these Copra onions from Johnny’s were started inside under lights from seed, transferred […]
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One word to describe the last month: Canning
Since the beginning of August it seems like I have been canning in my sleep!! In this photo I was about to insert two trays of tomatoes into the oven to roast them. I have found with my older oven it takes a good two hours at 400 degrees to get them roasted. Once roasted […]
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Piglets II
One of the Yorkshire Gilt’s had piglets last week. Like our Tamworth piglets born two weeks ago she had 5 piglets as well. Both litters were fathered by the same Boar so possibly that is the reason for the same number of piglets. Just as with the other litter we will not be clipping teeth […]
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Kittens
What barn would not be a barn without some barn cats. We have three adults Rascal, Pepper and Ghost. Ghost was born here this past winter and these little guys were born in late July. While they are all so cute and cuddly we are likely going to keep one out of this litter and […]
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Piglets
In August 10, 2013 we had a litter of Tamworth piglets born to our oldest sow and boar. There was a total of 7 piglets born and 5 survived until we discovered them on Sunday afternoon. We allowed her to farrow in the woods and she chose one of the pig huts and all appeared to […]
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Blueberries
One thing that has grown well in my Catskill Mountain soil has been my blueberries. We started in 2009 planting about 45 plants per year and this is the first year we have any harvestable crop. We have been planting three types Chandler, Reka and Blueray. They are of varying sizes and harvesting times to […]
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All The Pigs Getting Along
Here is a rare moment when all four of the adult pigs are getting along. The three brown pigs are our Tamworths and the white one is a Yorkshire that belongs to a kid who helps us out around the farm. In addition to these four we have a second Yorkshire, a Berkshire Gilt and […]