Lookie Here Popeye!

I have read and re-read Elliot Coleman's, Winter Harvest Book and was sold on the idea until it got cold - and the idea of carrying one more bucket of water...I had just had enough for the year, so when the snow dropped last Fall I said goodbye to my attempt at "winter greens". BUT, low and behold, the blanket of snow did just that, it preserved my greens through our winter,and here we are in March enjoying fresh greens and spinach. Wahoo!

Belted Galloways

Sweet Fresca!
Grace and Ginger. Plastic ring is a weaning tool, not permanent.
Ginger hasn't learned to push Evan around yet, Grace will teach her to do that!
Fresca, again, trying to eat Grace's hat...
A trio of trouble in my future...
Ginger and Gilligan (photo shy) are coming to Heritage Hill Farm to live this Spring. We got them from MoonShadow farm in Starks.

LOVE the 2010 poster!

Here We Go Again - YAY!!

Oh Christmas Tree...

For whatever reason, this year we didn't venture down to our enchanted forest to get a tree. It may have been the late snow arrival, the cows, the electric fence, or maybe it was just our way of supporting the local economy and BUYING LOCAL!



Anywhooo, we had a fun time, with a beautiful selection. Trying to get 2 kids to agree on the same tree was the hardest part, although there may have been a dis-agreeable adult in the group too, but I won't name any names, Chance.
oh yeah, I was there too...

Why you don't wait for snow to move cows....

How many trucks does it take to get 8 cows out of a pasture?
He may be uber strong (in his own mind..)
A real power horse is needed to move this load

up, upand away they go!
We'll call this group if Santa gets stuck this year...

Beans, Beans the Musical Fruit

How can something so pleasing to the eye create such havoc to your intestinal tract?

The Pork was a huge success!

After raising 8 berkshire and berkshire/tamworth crosses this year - everyone is happy with the end result.

Read about it at amusebouche!

Children of the Corn

A great way to spend a brisk October Saturday in a 10-acre corn maze! The maze is shaped like the state of Maine, with a tractor inside and the logo "Eat Local" .Very cool.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Although my neighbor left a voice mail asking"Why did your chickens cross the road?", we'll never know the answer. In years past, people have expressed concern - 'ooh, those chickens are really close to the road', or 'jeez, I see the chickens waaaaay down in the field'. My response has always been 'don't worry they are chickens, and they are chicken, they won't go far'.

Today, when Grace said " I don't mean to be mean, but chickens are stupid", I should've had some sense of foreboding. When I returned the neighbors phone call, I learned that indeed that darn chicken DID cross the street. And now I may be getting a bill for Hazel's therapy after watching the chicken try, with no luck, to cross the street home again....

Have a good week.

Ta Da!

Done with pick-ups. Now to can and freeze the leftovers, and prep for Fall and Spring.
For those of you who asked - what on earth will I do with ALL my free time??? Chance has magnanimously suggested that I could start splitting and stacking firewood. Oooh, are there enough hours in the day?

This french onion soup recipe is a keeper!

Slacker City

It's almost as if I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and put it on cruise control. I did get busted tonight by a friend who said "it's been awhile since you posted anything new...". Yeah, yeah.
Let see since we spoke last:

• Broilers : gone. Yummy.
• Pigs : gone. Way yummy.
• Veggies: last pick up is tomorrow. A little blue but ecstatic that I did it!
• Cows: a few more weeks. One bugger keeps getting out of the fence. He should be yummy.
• Kids: Thing 1 at school; Thing 2 never too far away (from trouble).
• Husband: working, working, working. The honey do list is long!

Here are newsletters from the past weeks - some really good recipes in there too!


Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 11

The winter squash is so good on the grill with olive oil and herbs!

Week 10

My cute kids

need I say more...