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Category Archives: Gardening
Extending Fall Lettuce Harvest With Floating Row Covers and Other Tips
Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends in the U.S.! We’ve enjoyed another great Thanksgiving as a family and we pray you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well. There is much for us to be thankful for, and one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged country, country life, country living, country skills, eliot coleman, fall gardening, fall harvest, farm, floating row cover, food, garden, gardening, greens, growing, homestead, lettuce, mini-farm, planting, row cover, season extender, wide row
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Comfrey: Great Source of Homegrown Food for Farm Animals
Within the midst of fall, the vegetation around our mini-farm makes its last burst of growth before winter comes on. Our comfrey is no exception. As I posted before, I love comfrey, and no homestead should be without it especially … Continue reading
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Tagged animal feed, chicken, comfrey, comfrey as feed, comfrey as food, comfrey leaves, country, country living, country skills, farm, farm animal, farm animals, feed ration, food protein, gardening, herb, homegrown animal feed, homestead, mini-farm, nutrient, permaculture, pig, protein, vitamin A, vitamin B-12, vitamin C
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Sweet Potatoes Are Here!
Last Saturday we dug up two buckets full of sweet potatoes from the garden. Most of our family enjoys sweet potatoes, but a few of us do not (including me). I wanted to see if I could turn the sweet … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, General, Recipes
Tagged fall, pie, potatoes, sweet potato, sweet potato pie
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Three
Here’s the third update on the tillage radish cover crop beds. It’s been four weeks since the last update, and the radishes are about two feet tall with tubers ranging from two to three inches in diameter. Some tubers are … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
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What We Can Learn From the French About Food
We’ve been listening to some excellent seminar presentations by French Chef Francis Foucachon, former owner of the West of Paris restaurant. In this presentation, Chef Foucachon, born, raised and educated in Lyon, has been discussing how the French view food … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, eating, french cooking, french food, fresh food, gardening, health, local food, nutrition, real food
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Tillage Radish Update
It’s been about three and half weeks since I planted the experimental tillage radish beds. The Lord provided and excellent rain this last week–about four, soaking inches–and the radishes have come to life. True to form, they are growing rapidly with some … Continue reading
