Predator vs. Prey
So by now you know our chickens……Amelia, George, Big Momma, Sherman, etc…. Of course, every time we go out to ‘The Farm’ they look for us to let them out of the coop [...]
February 2012
Chicken-Jalapeno Soup “The cold buster”
This week, our recipe comes from our stash of jalapeno peppers. The jalapeno is an easy grow in the garden, and a great producer. Each of our plants yielded well over 150 peppers throughout the [...]
What are you building? A playhouse, doghouse…A chicken what????
So, how do you get eggs when you don’t have a rooster? Seems like a dumb question now, but a sincere question I had a few years back. Chickens were a subject that I knew very little about. The [...]
Canning — no, you are not going to blow up your kitchen!
In our garden, September is a busy harvesting time. We stroll out to the garden with our picking crate (made of wood from the Cardington Barn), only to find out that we have fill it up 3 or 4 times [...]
2011 Garden Results…2000 + lbs. of produce from the garden!
The 2011 Garden Results From our little 20′ x 40′ plot – we harvested well over 2000 lbs. of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and zucchini! Not bad for our first year at the farm. [...]
Barn doors are up! We have closure.
Today was a big day for the barn – on went the front doors! Who knew we would still be able to work on the barn like this through the winter. The barn has been a project of epic [...]
Planting the Garden Day – No rototiller needed!!!
It’s the big day…finally time to plant the garden! This is always a day we both wait for every year – but this year it’s all the more exciting because it’s the first [...]
Old World Garden Farms 