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Making salad mix

19 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Combining varieties of lettuce seed for salad mix

Adding a pinch (5g) of fairly pricey Rushmore (a beautifully deep-red oakleaf) to a batch of salad mix. This is the basic all-lettuce summer blend: seven varieties, selected mainly for color (greens to reds), texture (flat to frilly), and to … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags greens, lettuce, salad, salad greens, scale, seed Leave a comment

Weighing chickens

25 Apr 202214 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Weighing chickens

Booked a chicken processing date today: slaughterhouse day is July 29. They’ve been looking good all along, but now the White Rocks seem mighty…tasty. I keep remembering one of them hurrying by with a long worm trailing from his beak,… Read the rest
Categories Animals, Fieldwork, Tools Tags chickens, meat, scale, slaughterhouse, Summer, weighing 35 Comments

Farm eggs with hot sausage

7 Jul 20092 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)

A week after arrival, the 25 Shaver Red Sex Link ready-to-lay layers are starting to lay. That’s good. We’re up to 7-8 eggs a day, and most are just shy of Small (on the official egg scale), but the numbers … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Cooking & Eating, Local food Tags eggs, scale, Summer, weighing 2 Comments

Main order done!

7 Feb 201028 Jan 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Five hours and done! This year’s main seed order was a first: finished in one session! Usually, it takes two. My head was starting to spin a little, but I felt COMPELLED by the late date to keep going (although … Read the rest

Categories Planning, Seed starting Tags catalogs, routines, scale, seed, weighing, Winter 6 Comments

Big egg

6 Nov 200827 Oct 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Every few days, at two dozen a day, along comes one very big egg. It’s hard to see with the chipped paint on the old egg scale, but these big guys take it right off the chart. Beyond measurement by … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Harvest, Tools Tags Autumn, chickens, eggs, scale, unusual 9 Comments
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