by admin | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
We have an excess of duck eggs at the moment and were thinking of things to do with them. We eat and sell as many as we can but then what? We have cracked them and frozen them in Ziplock bags for future use, but you only have so much freezer space you want to dedicate...
by admin | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
What a week we have had. Blue sky, sunshine, and a glimpse of warmer weather to come. I don’t know about you, but we have been trying to get little things done that have been neglected for too long. It is too early to start planting the garden, so we are taking this...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
You know spring has just begun when you see baby lambs in fields around the Willamette Valley. We have five ewes, and three of them are first time mommas. (Check out this blog about when we first got them LINK.) The young mommas are multi colors. One is all chocolate...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the change of the seasons, egg production has been kicked into gear. Our 200 chickens and 100 ducks are producing about thirteen dozen eggs a day. With our abundance of eggs, we have been working hard to build our regular client base. We have a stand on our front...
by admin | Mar 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week we picked up 50 laying ducks from the post office. All but one made it through two days of traveling safely, but in the first two days home, we lost 4 more. 6am picking ducks up from the post office You may ask why we need more ducks when we already...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
During the 2020 garden season, sunchokes (you may have heard them called Jerusalem artichokes) were our wild-card plant. They eat/cook much like a potato but look more like ginger. Picked sunchocks, being preserved in dirt They grow in the ground like potatoes. After...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last year, our potato production was great! We planted three rows consisting of Russet, red, blue and Yukon gold potatoes. We picked up the initial starts at the local feed store (note that starter potatoes aren’t sprayed with a sprout inhibitor like potatoes you get...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
How is everyone fairing after the ice storm? We got an inch of ice, and no snow. We lost power Friday evening. In hopes of it coming back, we went to bed in the dark and did not haul out the generators. It was cold enough nothing was going to spoil. When we woke...
by admin | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
It is hard to believe that it is already time to think about the garden for this year, but it is. We have been receiving seed catalogs in the mail for the last month. We spent one evening this past week drawing out the garden and determining what we are going to do....
by admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last spring was our 1st year doing mason bees. I was recently driving by the nursery where I got bees last year, and they had a sign out advertising “Mason bees in stock”. This got us thinking that it is time to take stock of what we have and decide if we are doing it...
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