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Preserving Eggs in Lime

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...

What a week…Sun

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...

Baby Lambs

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...

Egg Hutch

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...

2021 Baby Ducks Have Arrived

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...

Pickling Sunchocks

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...