Tag: thekitchensgarden
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Spring in the Sun

Awake, thou wintry earth – Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn” I was looking for Mother Teresa’s quote, to verify that I had the words right for the header,and came across this other quote (above). So all day yesterday I was marching about saying…
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Sprucing things up…

Tomorrow I am going to take a blog day off. It snowed a few more inches in the night and I can go nowhere anyway so I am going take the chance to spruce the look of The Kitchen’s Garden blog up a bit. Up my game if you will. I think we all deserve…
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Meet the boyfriend.
Yesterday was the day to take Charlotte the Hereford gilt to visit The Swineherd’s Boar for breeding purposes. Charlotte loaded herself up and we hitched the trailer to the red truck and trundled away to his little farm for her Valentines Day Week date with destiny. And look who we found. Meet the boyfriend. He…
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Bad news about the Bees and a Chance to Vote.
We have snow on the ground. Not much. Almost everyone likes to play in the snow, even if you do not have hands for snow balls. Mama continues to get larger and I can literally see her lambs doing flip flops inside her. Some of us have no interest in playing in the snow though.…
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Dividing up the loot
A couple of times a week the local grocery store gives The Farmy a bag of expired produce. I sit on one bucket surrounded by other empty buckets and set to work chopping and dividing up all the vegetables, potatoes and fruit. I am immediately surrounded in a rabble of watchers, outright looters and opportunists, …

