So, it turns out that blogging is an activity better suited for the long cold winter. With spring here I find myself barely having time to change into clean clothes before work, let alone blog about the minutia of our day to day activities. With this in mind here is a series of pictures I compiled to explain to the interested minority what exactly we've been up to around here. Stay tuned for more in depth coverage sometime soon.
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| raking in some seed for our super-flavorful spicy salad mix |
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| march wasn't great for getting the garden going, but it was nice for sugaring |
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| seed packets of saved heirloom vegetables Tamara packaged up for Olives and Grace |
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| Mali moved into the barn! |
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| I moved into the barn! |
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| aw, dang, Tamara moved into the BARN! |
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| one of our (Tamara's) top-bar hives didn't survive winter, which is sad, but also means we get to steal all the HONEY! |
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| Tamara breaking off comb |
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| some of our finer comb nicely jarred |
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| the extraction device from hell! next time I'm just crushing the comb with my hands |
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| Mali and Tamara straining the wax from the honey |
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| Damn Ethel you taste good! Many delicious accidents and a pork chop we raised come together on the plate - a crostini of roasted and pureed overwintered parsnip with dried figs, maple syrup and truffle oil topped with self-seeded, gone wild garlic greens and our very own pork chop from Ethel (the spotted pig) ... so good! |
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| fortune cookies, boxed up and ready to roll |
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| our growing army of raised beds |
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| rhubarb, that early fruit that acts like a vegetable, or early vegetable that acts like a fruit? |
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| up comes the garlic! |
