FarmerJ | August 28, 2010
Whew! We’ve made it through the sweet corn season! Actually, our sweet corn season has been over for almost three weeks ~ I’m just now getting around to catching up. This year proved to be successful in more ways than one: we didn’t have 8,000 ears of corn needing picked at the same time; we [...]
FarmerJ | July 11, 2010
Have you ever misunderstood someone while speaking to them on a cell phone? Darling Husbie’s and my telephone conversations generally occur over our cell phones, so we’ve gotten pretty good at interpreting what the other has said. However, there are still some occasions when things get misinterpreted ~ hence the title of this post. The [...]
FarmerJ | May 30, 2010
…on Sunday. I’m not getting any better at this, am I? It’s quite obvious spring sprung a few weeks ago ~ all the country critters are active, and so are we. However, not a lot of it was aimed at farming this week. Our schedules and the weather had other plans. Nonetheless, the farmstead plants [...]
FarmerJ | May 22, 2010
Well, gracious. I know I likely sound like a broken record, but I really am amazed at how quickly time is passing. Not only am I a day late for this Friday’s report, but I seem to have misplaced an entire week in between. Although the actual ‘farming’ report will seem scarce this time, things [...]
FarmerJ | May 7, 2010
It was a fairly typical busy week here at the farmstead. Last weekend, Darling Husbie and I worked on painting half of his shop floor with epoxy. We weren’t satisfied with the results, so Monday I decided to give the 1,200 sf a second coating while Husbie was at work. [More photos of the shop [...]
FarmerJ | April 27, 2010
Last Monday was a beautiful spring day. If you stopped long enough to listen, you could hear the buzz of tractors all around ~ and, it was no different here on the Farmstead. Darling Husbie has been itchin’ to get some seeds stuck into the ground for a few weeks now. He ingeniously created a [...]
FarmerJ | February 28, 2010
It’s hard to believe, but it’s time to begin planning the garden plots again. Darling Husbie gave me the prod the other day when he mentioned he hadn’t seen my master plan drawn out on engineer paper. Well…um…uh…that’s because I don’t have it done yet. To get started, we made a list of everything we [...]
FarmerJ | December 20, 2009
Squeeeeee! I could not believe my eyes when I opened the mailbox. Under all those ‘other’ catalogs ~ you know, Northern Tool, Harbor Freight, Oriental Trading ~ was a big, colorful, over-sized catalog. What could it be?! Yes! It was our 2010 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog! It’s just gorgeous, and I foresee many, many [...]
FarmerJ | November 11, 2009
I’m not sure why or how it turned out this way, but in our gardening adventures this summer, there were certain things that ‘belonged’ to Darling Husbie ~ like the potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn ~ and things that ‘belonged’ to me. The beans and peas were mine, and I got to pick out whatever [...]
FarmerJ | September 10, 2009
When we planned the garden plots this spring, we did so with the mindset that the entire process would be a fun learning experiment. So, as part of the experiment, we ordered a variety of heirloom seeds for things we’ve never seen or eaten before ~ one of those varieties being the Boston Marrow Squash. [...]
