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Month: February 2013

Winter breakfast: Mmmm vs Grrrr

9 Mar 201327 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Supermarket breakfast

Winter breakfast: oatmeal, wild blueberries, banana, maple syrup, cream. Mmmm? Grrrr…. It’s all supermarket stuff, from thousands of miles away, from the bowels of factory farms and processing plants. “Wild blueberries” in President’s Choice designer ziploc bags—what does that even … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating Tags local food, Winter Leave a comment

Kombucha watching

24 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Kombucha tea mother (SCOBY)

Not much to look at, right? Wrong! I spent a good FIVE MINUTES staring at the kombucha tea mother, gently swirling and undulating right after being placed in its tea-and-sugar bath, the watching-chickens effect. I like the look of the … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food Tags fermentation, Winter 2 Comments

More books arrive

22 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
More books arrive

No matter how digital things get, books arriving by mail is always…a treat! I did download the ebook version of The Intelligent Gardener over a week ago, it’s now on laptop and smartphone, but still wanted the hardcopy…and now it’s … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!) Tags books, permaculture, Winter 4 Comments

Snow still

21 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Snow on farm in late February

Still snow. Been trudging rather than shoveling because I keep expecting it to be gone by the end of the day, but no. Instead, it’s been topped up a few times since the fairly major snowstorm two weeks ago. One … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Weather Tags snow, Winter 1 Comment

Simple cookery

19 Feb 201319 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Turnip (rutabaga) simmering

This is about as simple as it gets this with a stove and a pot: turnips, simmering in water with a little salt. There’s a quite a bit, and I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with it afterwards, besides … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Cooking & Eating Tags chunky cooking, Winter Leave a comment

Winter persists

14 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Winter: snow on firewood

Wintry-looking winter is hanging around for a bit, with a little more snow adding to the fairly massive fall a few days ago. It’s already clear that we can expect anything, any time, from the weather, still, I was hoping … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Weather Tags snow, firewood, Winter Leave a comment

The Intelligent Gardener

11 Feb 2013 by Mike (tfb)
The Intelligent Gardener

More winter reading , and the buzzword is…”remineralization,” which here means carefully replacing missing soil minerals in a holistic way (as opposed to just topping up with this or that). The other keyphrase is what that leads to: “nutrient-dense food.” … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning Tags books, fertility, soil testing, Winter 3 Comments
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