It’s real.

See not a figment of my imagination.
And see how empty it looks. This is because I listened to my beloved and planted the way he said. Yes I know there is one lonely corn the others didn’t survive.
The two little plants in the container will be moved into the garden they are eggplants [...]

Read Full Post »

Vegetable Garden

Today was cool and bleak a perfect day for checking the vegetable patch.  After pulling out the one weed (drat that nut grass) I took a good look at it.  I am a little disappointed as it is slower in taking off then I anticipated BUT it is my first vege patch I have to [...]

Read Full Post »

Simple Desires

At Down to Earth the lovely Rhonda pointed out that simplifying isn’t just about food and grocery shopping.  I know this and as yet we are just beginning so much of what is on my wish list is just that a wish.  We don’t want to get into debt any more than what we are [...]

Read Full Post »

Plucking a chicken

Please note this post is about food preparation from the beginning.
In response to a comment and a couple of emails I have decided to tell how we prepare our chickens. The evening before D day we put the chickens in the coop and remove their food. This way they won’t have a full [...]

Read Full Post »

Challenges

I have been thinking of this challenge for a little while and finally decided to join in. I don’t think I will attempt daily but I would like to attempt one thing a day. But we’ll see how I go you just never know I may do it all.
Check out Casaubon’s Book site [...]

Read Full Post »

Chicken… Yum

Well over the weekend as you know we prepared 10 chickens. We had ourselves a nice little assembly line and within a couple of hours the fridge and freezer were full.
We decided on 4 birds that would be roasts that went straight in the freezer. 6 smaller birds we decided would be better [...]

Read Full Post »

Delicious Food

Our eating habits are changing drastically. More and more of the food the girls are eating is homemade. There have been a few failures, I can’t change them over to homemade LCMs or museli bars. I may as well have presented them with brussell sprouts the amount of face pulling I had [...]

Read Full Post »

Where there’s smoke alarm?

Last night we realised we hadn’t heard the 2nd smoke alarm for a while. It is one of those dreadful ones that go off when you open the oven. This realisation occurred as we were trying to put flames out on a piece of meat that had managed to curl up and touch [...]

Read Full Post »

Chickens

I love our chickens and we only have a few at the moment but I am seriously looking at (once these girls get old) replacing them with one of the all rounders. Light Sussex are really good as a meat and egg bird. But for now we have a little layers and I [...]

Read Full Post »

A brief moment of Panic

I admit it today I looked at what I have and what I would like to have on hand to protect my family and stressed. I am nowhere near ready!
I look at Peak Oil and the environmental issues. I look at my daughters and know I need to teach them for their future, [...]

Read Full Post »