This past week was a pretty good week on our mini-farm.
We picked enough tomatoes to make and can 40 quarts of tomato sauce. Our goal is to have put up enough sauce to make our weekly pizza and also spaghetti or lasagna a couple of times a month and ketchup and barbeque sauce. We still have several quarts to go, but there are still plenty of tomatoes left in the garden.
Picked peaches and blackberries. Oh, and some eggplant--which will become baba ganoush for a snack today.
One evening we dined on hot pastrami sandwiches made from a brisket of beef we corned and smoked, served on homemade rye rolls, topped with tomatoes from our garden, and enjoyed with our homemade dill pickles and a cold glass of our goats' milk.
Our chickens are not laying as well as they have been. Perhaps the heat is affecting them. Our ducks should begin laying pretty soon--the girls are looking forward to baking with duck eggs, and the boys are looking forward to the girls' baking with or without duck eggs.
The tilapia have had a hatch. Of course, we had just purchased some fry to grow out. We plan to have fish tacos in the fall when we harvest the tilapia and cabbage.
All in all, it was a good week. We are looking forward to what this week will bring.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Just a Note to Begin
The purpose of this weblog is not so much to brag on our accomplishments, but to share our experiences (positive and negative) in hopes that some will be encouraged to take up gardening and perhaps go beyond the hobby to become more self-sufficient.
We have been developing our mini-farm for a few years now. We try to add a little bit to our food production each year. This past year we added ducks and geese--for eggs and meat. The year before that we added tilapia and aquaponics.
We encourage you to try your hand at growing your own food. If you already enjoy gardening, try something you haven't tried before--not just a new variety vegetable or fruit, but rather try a new way of growing food. What do you eat? What kind of time and space can you devote to producing it for yourself.
Don't jump in all at once. If you haven't done it before, please don't till up your lawn and put in a thousand square feet of new growing space. Start small and work your way up. Choose just one food you really like, see what it takes to produce it for yourself. That's how we got started, and that's how we keep going.
We have been developing our mini-farm for a few years now. We try to add a little bit to our food production each year. This past year we added ducks and geese--for eggs and meat. The year before that we added tilapia and aquaponics.
We encourage you to try your hand at growing your own food. If you already enjoy gardening, try something you haven't tried before--not just a new variety vegetable or fruit, but rather try a new way of growing food. What do you eat? What kind of time and space can you devote to producing it for yourself.
Don't jump in all at once. If you haven't done it before, please don't till up your lawn and put in a thousand square feet of new growing space. Start small and work your way up. Choose just one food you really like, see what it takes to produce it for yourself. That's how we got started, and that's how we keep going.
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