Posted in animals, Farm, Food, homestead, Kitchen, knitting, local food, Nature, rabbits, Weather on October 11, 2009| 4 Comments »
Snow is forecast for today, tonight, tomorrow and later this week. Four to six inches is expected tonight into tomorrow and we are under a winter weather advisory.
Today in the slow cooker, roast three rabbits and various veggies to feast on this evening.
It’s a good day to sit inside and knit. Mittens are progressing. Yule gifting is happening.
Posted in animals, Chickens, creation, death, evolution, Family, Farm, Farmgirls, General Musings, home improvement, homestead on September 25, 2009| 1 Comment »
Here is the back story:
Rob’s father owns a cabin about 12 miles from our home. He has owned it some 40 years I guess. He built it from the ground up.
Fast forward to recent past:
They are ripping the cabin down. The cabin where my husband spent a great deal of his childhood. The cabin my FIL built. Tearing it down. They are putting in it’s place a new fangled fancy cabin that they have to dig into the hillside to put up.
Kindly, though, his father is letting ROB do the tear down. The tear down includes a 12’x10′ shed that we are going to use for a new chicken coop. The old coop is going to be a tool shed. The rest of the cabin is going to be reconstructed as a barn and the screen porch is going to go onto the South side of our home-we’ll cut in a door from the family room to access it.
Rob brought the 12’x10′ home today and began reassembling it in it’s place in the yard.
Old coop and new coop side by side prior to reassembly
Space leveled
Platform is set and leveled
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Four!
So that’s the deal for now. I have other stuff to write about, but not just yet. I’ll post photos as things progress. I’ll even try to post photos of the cabin deconstruction. It’s been a time since I posted anything, but I have been busy. The slow down months are here, which means LOTS of knitting, LOTS of soups and breads, LOTS of tea, and a little bit of blogging.
I have missed it.
Posted in Activism, Agri-business, Cargill, choice, corrupt government, corruption, death, Earth, Environment, Farm, Farmers Market, Food, freedom, Garden, Government, greed, health, Honest Economy, Honest Government, Honest Money, House of Representatives, human, humanity, Indoctrination, Kitchen, Legislation, Legislature, local economy, local food, Minnesota, monoculture, Monsanto, Organic, politics, rant, Raw Milk, Ron Paul, Senate, World on March 19, 2009| 4 Comments »
House and Senate bills to kill all organic farms (FAST track bills in 2 weeks)
Food Safety Modernization Act (HR 875): Criminalization of Organic Farms
Bills are:
House H.R. 875 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/ bill.xpd? bill=h111- 875
Senate S 425 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/ bill.xpd? bill=s111- 425
There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before people realize what is happening. Main backer and lobbyist is (guess who) Monsanto.
This Bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to “make sure there is no danger to the public food supply”.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds will be allowed, only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now causing unexpected diseases in humans. Here is a short video on the subject: http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Food-Safety-Modernization-Act-HR-875-Criminalization-of-Organic-Farms-222
Lets get real folks! This has NOTHING to do with food safety. This is only about TOTAL CONTROL by the feds in our lives. So, get on that phone ASAP and burn up the wires. Get anyone else you can to do the same thing, by sending this message far and wide.
The House and Senate WILL pass this if they are not massively threatened with loss of their position…. . they only fear your voice and your vote.
LET THEM KNOW YOU OPPOSE THESE BILLS: HR 875 and S 425
If you want to track the progress of these outrageous bills, click on the links below:
Posted in Activism, animals, Earth, Farm, Food, freedom, General Musings, Kitchen, local economy, local food, Raw Milk on March 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Tonight we had the fortune of having raw jersey milk at dinner. I finally found a VERY local supplier of raw cow milk. YAY! I am thrilled because that means I can make butter!! And have buttermilk for breads and pancakes! and fresh cream for coffee! and fresh cream for whipping!! oh so much yayness!
Rob is so excited that he mentioned getting offloaded of goats and getting a sheep set and a Jersy heiffer.
Raw milk is bliss!
Posted in animal babies, animals, Birth, cycle, death, Farm, Food, General Musings, goats, Household, life, local food, Nature on March 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This past Saturday, two more doelings came
Sadly only one made it and she is named Juniper
Juniper appears to be Brandon’s offspring, making her half Alpine and Half Boer. So she’ll be a great milk goat and a great meat goat at the same time! Yay!!
That’s all I have got this evening.
Posted in animal babies, animals, Birth, crazy silly happy fun time, creation, cycle, Earth, Farm, fertility, Food, Fun With Photos, General Musings, goats, life, local food, Magick, sacredness on March 4, 2009| 1 Comment »
Sometime in the wee hours this morning, or late last night, our farm had an arrival
Pretty little Alpine girl kid. Yippee! Milk in June and the Circle turns again!
Posted in Business, community, Earth, Farm, Farmers Market, Food, freedom, Garden, General Musings, health, Herbs, Honest Economy, humanity, Inspiration, Kitchen, local economy, local food, Love, Minnesota, Nature, People, Pine River, World on February 25, 2009| 2 Comments »
Posted in bellydance, Birth, Business, crazy silly happy fun time, Family, Farm, Farmers Market, Garden, General Musings, Household, Love, pregnancy on February 28, 2008| 2 Comments »
This has been a great break for me. Lots of things done, healing done, and ideas sprung.
First I shall inform you of the attempts to have another baby. We’re at it pretty good so hopefully sometime soon you’ll hear some news.
We are also at a crossroads in the direction we are heading in terms of self sufficiency. Inventoy has been built and I have started selling odd goods, mostly bellydance related and ethnic goods that I have purchased from sellers near and far. I have everything from patchwork goods made by others and myself, re-constructed clothes made by me, to spirituality items to soap.. so a run of all things funky, I suppose. I am doing the art faire, folk fest, music fest circuit around MN and neighboring states if something sounds like a good time and opportunity. ROb is going to be here taking over the market gardens and getting in full force with the farmers market run. He’ll be marketing just about daily come growing season. It’s goodness.
I have also been successful in finding other alternative minded folks who are interested in a performance tribe-bellydancers, hoopers, fire players, drummers and other musicians. It’s going to be great! I can’t wait for our first go at a performance.
As far as performing, I’ll be performing at the end of March in our first hafla-my students and my friend’s students. There shall be a couple of group choreography pieces and some solo dance. I’m gonna dance with my sword!!
Things are getting more peaceful here by and by. Everything is falling into place how we have envisioned it since we moved into our home. None of us could really ask for more.
More updates this weekend…I am glad to be back here…
Posted in bellydance, Birth, Chickens, Children, Cleaning, Crafting, crazy silly happy fun time, creation, Doula, Environment, Family, Farm, Forest, Friends, Garden, General Musings, Household, Inspiration, Love, Needlework, OY!, Wimmin, zine on October 4, 2007| 2 Comments »
I am becoming certified….YAY! So instead of just being a birth advocate and loving attendant for pregnant friends, I can actually call myself a certified post partum doula! I will also go after becoming a labor doula as well, but I have a full plate right now between the PPD and my AAMI studies.
So some girlfriends of mine and I are going to be getting together to write a wimmin’s zine. I am so thrilled at the idea of a zine dealing with wimmin’s issues! I have one friend who has had a baby thus far at home, so she and I have commonalities to write about! YAY! I am not sure when we will get together, but I hope soon. I have the perfect space for us all to gather for dancing, drumming, thinking, talking and writing.
I have been back at teaching bellydance now too! We have four weeks under our belt and now Connie and I are choreographing a short routine for the ladies to learn in the last 4 weeks. We will have a little hafla on the 30th. The idea behind our classes is troupe formation. We have two ladies who we are going to invite for further learning and to join the troupe. I am so excited about it! The greatest thing is that Connie and I both took our instruction from the Cassandra School! Our instruction was 25 years apart, but the same instruction nonetheless. Another great thing is that her style and mine are different, so routines will never be the same boring thing over and again. She is more traditional, as Cassandra is more traditional. I am more American Tribal Style, as my bellydance study has lead me that direction. It flows for me with regard to my personality as well as why I dance-the spirit of it. The Goddess dance if you will.
I am glad it is fall. THings are slowing down. We are getting our cold frames in, we are setting up for goats before the snow flies, and getting the house cleaned out before cold forces us inside with clutter. de-cluttering stinks, but is so worth it. After we have decluttered, I can take out my slow season crafting, like needlepoints, tea towels, aprons, dresses, etc. I love the cold months for their slow down.
I will have a video series up in a little bit about tea staining. I found a cutsie dress at Target on sale last weekend. It’s Isaac Misrahi for Target. I stained it this morning and it is hanging dry right now. I have some other alterations to do to it, namely taking it in as it is too big…waaaaay too big, as well as adding sleeves and a little trim and making a petticoat to go with it. I am very excited about this dress. I have a certain 40’s farmwife vision in my head when I see the end product in my head. Just you wait!
Off to nurse Zoe to nap and get Grace upstairs to clean her very messy playroom. Then out to tend the chickens. I have rock to throw down around the fencing and eggs to collect and kitchen scraps to feed them (They love treat time!)
More to come….
Posted in crazy silly happy fun time, Farm, freecycle, General Musings, Mabon, Pagan, Sabbats, Witch, World on September 22, 2007| 1 Comment »
but here is what has been going on here:
I hurt myself pretty badly falling on slippery rained on stairs, we made applesauce, was decided on goats, we got 18 chickens for free on freecycle (holy crap!) and belly dancing started again! YAY!
Here is a short video of our chickens. It’s really amusing. It’s the day we got 4 grown birds and 3 more chicks. We go tonight to pick up two more and then that is it for the time being.
I hope you all are doing well. As Fall comes on us, things are slowing down, the Winter garden will be sown fairly soon and then it is inside we retreat to do needlepoint and crocheting.
Blessed Mabon!
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