Posted by in Homestead Life One of the things we really want to do on our homestead is establish an orchard, where we can grow our own apples, plums, peaches, and cherries. Last year, we started down this road by planting two varieties of cherries: Morello (sour cherries) and Rainier (sweet cherries). I am not actually a huge cherry fan,…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life They’re here!! Yesterday we received our order of black soldier fly larvae, and I am SO EXCITED!! I had never heard of these things before they showed up in our Portland compost bin a few years ago, so I have to assume that some other folks haven’t heard of them, either. Well, I’m here to…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life Back when we were living in Portland, on a tiny postage-stamp sized lot (actually, it was a rather large lot by Portland standards, where the rising housing demands resulted into thousands of “shotgun” houses being built on miniscule split lots across the city), we were interested in promoting beneficial insects to help pollinate plants, break…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life I love pie. It is, by far, my favorite dessert. It doesn’t have any of that disgusting, sickeningly sweet icing that makes most cakes inedible (in my humble opinion). And crust! Oh my god, crust – that dreamy blend of butter, salt (& sugar sometimes) all perfectly suspended in a delicate flour conveyance. I FREAKING LOVE…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life You know what sucks? When – after a long, cold, snowy winter – spring finally arrives, just to be snatched out of your hands again. The snow finally melts, just to be replaced with – you guessed it – more snow. That is what this April has been so far. Things were finally warming up…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life, Social (Also known as entomophagy.) I’ve been fascinated by the idea of eating insects for some time. Once I got over the initial societally-ingrained disgust, that is. I’ve never been a real big meat eater – I was vegetarian for about 12 years, did the raw/vegan thing for nearly a year. I will eat it from…Read more »
Posted by in Homestead Life Things have been a bit heavy lately, so I decided to write about one of my favorite subjects: food! Specifically, pancakes. Pancakes are happy food. It is super hard to feel dismal while eating pancakes! I have a whole wheat sourdough starter that lives in my fridge and comes out once a week to get…Read more »
