Town's End Farm

Town's End Farm Fruit and vegetables in season, grown on our farm located just northwest of Bellingham, WA

08/12/2020

We have an over abundance of the squash that shall not be named. They're hanging out by the side of the road by a free sign, and with one of the best zucchini bread recipes I have ever tried attached.

If you can't make it by, let me know and I'll bring you one or two or three or..... You better specify how many you want. 😁

As much as I would love to deliver to some of you, just as an excuse to visit, I guess I better specify I'll bring you some if you live in the same county.

Also, it's not my recipe, but here's a link:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6698/moms-zucchini-bread/

05/27/2020

It has been a long while since I have posted anything. Not a lot to share at the moment. The veggie garden is in and growing like mad! Chickens are laying eggs when they feel like it - some of them don't feel like it every day but we're still getting plenty. We enlarged their run and they seem quite happy about that.

Anyone want eggs? Our sweet little biddies are laying like crazy. (Except the kid's hen, she's not quite there yet.)I'm ...
11/06/2018

Anyone want eggs? Our sweet little biddies are laying like crazy. (Except the kid's hen, she's not quite there yet.)

I'm baking today, and planning on making a couple of quiches, but there are going to be a couple dozen eggs left just today.

$3.00 doz. or 2 dozen for $5

Our little chicken keeper found the first egg this morning!
08/27/2018

Our little chicken keeper found the first egg this morning!

07/19/2018

Chickens! We have chickens again. Blue laced red Wyandotte. Ten lovely, very young little biddies, so no eggs for a month or two yet. It was so fun watching them grow from little fluff balls into young ladies. Our daughter has named them all: Sergeant (because she was the leader), Metalia, Zia, Coco, Caramel, Samoa, Brownie, Lua, and, because she ran out of ideas, I suggested Gertrude and Henrietta (there has to be a Gertrude and a Henrietta).

And now they have a boyfriend - lol. There were no accidental roosters in the group so we had to find one. Quite a handsome fellow. A young cuckoo Maran named Barney. Although I did consider renaming him Sam after Sam Elliot because he can give that same tough cowboy stare. :D

Between hands on encouragement to get out of the coop and a rooster to make them feel secure they're actually spending time outdoors finally.

So, 10 chickens, one new "chicken palace", and a rooster and we'll probably have more eggs than we know what to do with before too long. Family and friends only for now, when we do start getting eggs on a daily basis.

11/04/2017

The seasons have decided to change abruptly this year. Today there are shreds of an early snowfall on the ground. November third is early for snow around here, (but I can remember snow in October a time or two).
Just five days ago it was nice enough to have the windows open. However, that was a brief respite.

Fall came in just as suddenly as winter. The long, dry summer ended the same - shorts and t-shirts gave over to sweaters and jeans in a matter of days, no long slide into fall. It just showed up like a friend who tells you they are coming to visit without saying when and suddenly there he us, standing on your doorstep. And all the rain that refused to come over the summer poured down and didn't seem to want to stop. Dry fields turned to mud overnight.

It feels like just yesterday that I was standing in the backyard looking out across the pasture that was glowing golden in the light of the evening sun as dragonflies and other insects flitted in the heat and haze, yet it was already more than a month ago.

And this sudden crash into winter comes with regrets - regrets in thinking the last few green tomatoes could stay on the vine a few more days, regrets that the work that should have been done during the slow shift from ridiculous heat to damp and cold is unfinished, regrets that another year has slipped by so quickly. I'll spend the winter planning for spring, hoping it doesn't come so late and lasts longer than it did this year, that the rains don't stay away all summer, that everything stops having its own schedule and slows down to a savor every moment speed that can be enjoyed.

06/15/2017

Beets. Kale and beets. In little raised beds. Tomatoes in buckets. Blueberries. That's it this year. And of course the apples.
We're doing a major redesign of our yard and garden, transitioning to raised beds over the next couple of years, moving some fences, and trying to get a nice, friendly, green privacy fence/screen on our north property line since we'll be getting neighbors for the first time - if they ever get water so they can build.
County freeze on well permits has stopped most activity next door, giving us more time to deal with it. We rather like our seeming isolation. Changed the plans we did have for that side as well. That's ok, it's a good place to have ecology block bins for landscape materials. :D

09/29/2015

So facebook is telling me it has been too long since I posted anything here, so here it goes....Our apples aren't beautiful this year. Somehow we didn't hit the right time window in our pest prevention. But they are still tasty. Apple sauce will be cooking up tomorrow.
This summer's drought was difficult. Despite daily watering, the garden struggled - except the tomatoes. The tomatoes loved the hot weather and we are still harvesting delicious homegrown tomatoes two months after the first one ripened and the kid declared it tasted like tomato heaven. There were peas and beans, carrots, lettuce (before it bolted), some cabbage, zucchini, acorn squash, and cucumbers. Pumpkins and potatoes are waiting to be harvested.
I guess if facebook is complaining, then it is time to get a blog post done. After this busy week is over I will try. :D

We have apples! Picked a bunch this morning to can some homemade pie filling, and make a fresh pie of course. This year...
08/01/2014

We have apples! Picked a bunch this morning to can some homemade pie filling, and make a fresh pie of course. This year's crop of Transparents are gorgeous. They won't last long, so if you want some let me know. .50¢/lb. Sweet crab apples almost ripe. Gravenstein, King, and others will be ready later. The kid helps me pick them, so she gets half the profits - she is saving up to buy her own horse. She thinks selling them was her idea. :) Glad to see I am raising a little entrepreneur.

05/23/2014

And is anyone interested in some Rhubarb?

05/23/2014

Sold six dozen eggs today!

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