As requested – here is our Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde. I’m glad we overplanted these. Since everything did so poorly, we ended up with a small batch of excess tomatillos. The trick on this Salsa Verde is to know when to harvest the tomatillos and get a mix of ripe, overripe, and almost ripe fruit.

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Keeping chickens safe is tricky depending on how far you want to go in creating a chicken friendly safe environment. I’ve seen some pretty impressive chicken coops with attached enclosed runs with buried metal mesh and other fancy predator controls. Those are nice, but we have other projects that require that finite resource of money

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This has been a difficult post to write, I’m devastated over what has occurred this week and it’s with a very heavy heart that I journal this. I’m keeping this short and limiting to how this has impacted us – but know that every fiber of our beings reaches out to those who have lost

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We are a long way from self sufficiency, but we have made a dent. One of our primary goals is to produce as much of our food as we can. We don’t really have an interest in keeping cows, meat chickens, or such – but produce is another matter. We had hoped for a massive

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2020 is shaping up to its strange reputation nicely. Our garden is among the odd things, and I’m glad to hear that others in our area have the same issues. We did a few things differently this year some experimental and some repeats of what we did in the past. We started most of our

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Yep – part 3 of probably a few hundred. The barn renovation continues! Barn Renovation (Part 1) – May 2019Barn Renovation (Part 2) – September 2019 I am bound and determined to get most of the barn renovation done this year before it starts to rain. The primary focus was on enclosing the backside of

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We were supposed to go to Hawaii this year. COVID-19 however had other plans, so we took our vacation time to ride our horses in central Oregon. We haven’t done much trail riding and I’m still a complete novice with horse riding in general. So we played it safe and booked a VRBO that offered

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One older Barred Rock hen (Belinda) is broody, She did this last year and it took quite some time for her to give up being a mother. Hens can suddenly get a strong desire to hatch eggs and will go “broody” where they will sit on eggs and refuse to leave the nest box. They

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