The Kitchen's Garden

April 16, 2012

The Story of The Day I met Mama the Sheep

The day I met Mama the Sheep, it was a cold clear January morning. A man had called me and said he had sheep to sell, did I want a few. So we hitched the rusty stock trailer to the red truck and went North. The fancy new subdivision on the outskirts of Chicago was…

April 15, 2012

How to make organic fertiliser from worm casings.

In the basement I have two worm farms. One is a conventional vertical worm farm that has trays that you layer upwards. I feed the worms a mixture of brown feed and green feed. The brown includes egg cartons, cardboard, coffee grounds, tea leaves, shredded paper, egg shells, dead leaves and in this case the…

April 14, 2012

Food I can eat with my eyes!

Do you guys deliver? It is Saturday, the day I usually share some new (to me) blogs with you all. However this week I succumbed to PRETTY! and pretty SIMPLE. So I am being naughty and I have swiped some food pictures to show you. I am not sure if this is OK so don’t…

April 13, 2012

Kupa finds his voice

Yesterday morning I did half the chores then drove in the cooking oil car to the village, picked up my Mother-in-Law (The Matriarch) and drove her to a bigger town to catch the bus to Chicago for the weekend at 7.30am. Before I left I fed everyone who needed feeding and at the very last…

April 12, 2012

Frost is only called Jack in the autumn

In the autumn, frost is fun, it is a herald and a wee bit exciting. In the Spring the frost can bring frozen tears to your eyes. When I was writing to you yesterday morning I saw this through the window.And thought oh how pretty, look at the sun rising through those translucent leaves. But…