Category: Farming
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Salsa Verde and the Piggies are Put through their Paces.
Remember these from the garden. Tomatillos. They hang like little paper lanterns. And inside the little paper lantern a tomato grows. A green tomato. A tomatillo. So yesterday Our John made Grilled Tomatillo Salsa Verde. Char grill tomatillo, capsicum (sweet pepper) and a couple of jalapenos until soft. Smash up. Add onion, lime juice, seasonings…
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Salsa Verde and the Piggies are Put through their Paces.
Remember these from the garden. Tomatillos. They hang like little paper lanterns. And inside the little paper lantern a tomato grows. A green tomato. A tomatillo. So yesterday Our John made Grilled Tomatillo Salsa Verde. Char grill tomatillo, capsicum (sweet pepper) and a couple of jalapenos until soft. Smash up. Add onion, lime juice, seasonings…
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TonTon saves the Baby Bobby Blanc
The only real herding that we have seen lately on the farm is Kupa herding the guineas. Watch this sequence. This goes on for ages sometimes, He will walk around and around them keeping them in one place….or moving them across the field and then back. Kupa was disconcerted yesterday because one of the guineas…
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Plain Sailing
The wonderful thing about problems is that you get to solve them. Something goes wrong. You worry on it. You find a pathway to the solution. You fix it or you live with it. But it becomes familiar. The next time it goes wrong, you panic less because you have already found the pathway to…
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Not always in control but momentum gets us to the end
It was so cool yesterday morning that the Tall Teenager and I weeded for more than the usual hour or so. I had watered the day before and the pulling was good so soon not only was I missing breakfast, but I was fast missing lunch. I will catch up on the rest this afternoon…
The Kitchen's Garden 