The Kitchen's Garden

August 30, 2012

“You can’t put my Mom in a chicken coop!”

Yesterday after milking and chores and the school run we drove to the city and I dropped the cooking oil car off with the mechanic. It was a two and a half hour round trip just to get there and back. The mechanic is my new best friend. He totally ignored my accent, and my…

August 29, 2012

Working alone on the farmy

Working alone on a farm has its challenges and its dangers. Though you would not know that there are any hidden dangers from the little collection of images we see today. And the little farm is managed in a low tech sustainable manner so my use of machinery is kept to a minimum. My tractor…

August 28, 2012

The precious light of dawn

It appears that against my will I am being carefully and inexorably towed out by the tide of an ebbing summer, back into the dark mornings. The brightness of summer is leaving me. Too soon. Too soon. The sunrise is only at the strength of a whisper as I carry my buckets of warm water…

August 27, 2012

‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..

… to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill. I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly. It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’ But that…

August 26, 2012

You can run…

But you can’t hide. On the way to pick up the honey frames that the bees had cleaned. So I could pop them in the freezer for 24 hours to kill any bugs, then wrap them and store them for the winter. I saw this. Devastation. On the lower portion of the vines. The Vidal Blanc.…