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! |
Mali looks like she enjoys helping just like Hershey and Peanut.
ReplyDeleteThat meal and honeycomb look delish!
The meal was good! We are very pleased with how the pigs turned out.
ReplyDeleteAs for the honey ... if it wasn't so amazingly tasty I would through an epic temper tantrum ... it took me 6 hours to crush the comb using a vice and another two days of passive labor to strain out all the wax and bee parts ... the whole vice idea was really misconceived ... i'll just crush the hell out of it with my hands next time and let gravity and a strainer do the work ...
Hope all is well! Hello to Chris and Jack!
*throw a temper tantrum not "through"...
ReplyDeleteLooks great guys (especially Mali!). I love the pics of the combs.
ReplyDeleteMiss you!
Mali is looking pretty good isnt she?
ReplyDeleteEverything looks amazing B&T.. very jealous!
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