~ Down Home Farm Tours ~

Back in November 2012, we were featured in the Down Home Farm Tours by Wardee Harmon of gnowfglins.com. Here is our farm. It was such an honor to be feature with all of the other great farms in 2012. If you have a farm and would like it featured, head on over and sign up! It is always fun to see how others do things on their farms and we get great ideas on how to improve the way things on our farm work.

~ Look What We Have ~

Two little Nubian does and a buck. They are about two weeks in these pictures, they will be 5 weeks tomorrow. The kids are having so much fun with them. 

~ Working Together ~

We were finally able to put in an outdoor woodfurnace (in November) and we love it. We save money on gas and electricity, the kids learn new life skills and how to work together and we now have something productive to do all the wood that we need to clean up.

~ My Lack of Real Posts ~

Life. Life happens for better or worse. A week with a back that wouldn't cooperate, a week with an infection and perhaps poor judgement on my part partaking in a Christmas get together that involved a water park. (I had lots of fun but the chlorine did nothing to help my relationship with my already disgruntle thyroid).

Now I am trying to recover from all of the above and with a cloudy brain its not all that easy. I had a moment of clarity this morning and was able to pull out all the supplements and food that I new I needed and already I feel better.

My lack of recipe posting is simply the fact that I haven't been cooking by recipe. I have been refrigerator cooking. A little of leftover A, B, and C mixed together to create a whole new dish, but no measuring. Lots of soups have been created with whatever is available, no real recipe involved.

Hopefully I will start to feel better in the next week and be able to post on the new gardening season, fast approaching, and the two or three new recipes that I have made.

A fun picture I found from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, this star is made from peppers and eggplants.

~ Raised Bed Hoop House ~

I do not know where I found this picture. I came across it on facebook I'm sure. This would be a great way to grow melons in Minnesota or any other zone with a short growing season. You would be able to throw plastic or fleece over the hoops to protect them when the nights get chilly but the days are still nice and warm.