….make delicious stock! About a month ago, we bought a side of beef from a local farmer. Three hundred and twenty pounds of cow later, this is what we picked up from our friendly butcher: The bottom tray is full of bones. Four bags turned into stock, six more to go. Meanwhile, the hens’ arses [...]
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When life gives you beef bones….
Posted in chickens, cooking from scratch on January 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The slaughterhouse three
Posted in autumn, cooking from scratch, let us give thanks, meat growing, sheep on October 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It was a fine September morning when we backed the truck up to the pen where our wether sheep, Guinness, was feasting on tall grass. There was a fine layer of frost on the grass, but not enough to damage the garden, and the dew on the tomatoes shone in the morning light. Iris waited [...]
The things we’re making
Posted in around the farm, autumn, cooking from scratch, fibre fun, meat growing, sheep, spinning, weaving on October 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A winter home for the goats. We’re using galvanized stucco wire as a hopeful alternative to page wire, and crossing our fingers that it stands up to all the ruminant sex that will take place. Beautiful yarn! This is one ply of dyed polwarth and one ply of handcombed romney. It’s a beautiful yarn indeed, [...]
Making borscht with Grandpa Frank
Posted in cooking from scratch, disapproving russians, garden on September 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
My great-grandfather left Siberia in 1926 with his wife and offspring and–luckily for me and the rest of his descendents–his journal. In it, he speaks of travelling through places with magical-sounding names: a sunrise over the Ural mountains; changing trains in Sazrjanj, the Dvina river with its “forests and woods suitable for making butter vats,” [...]
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