Willow and Oak

10/16/2023

If you have mushroom logs, you should check them. The change in weather has triggered the shiitakes to fruit. Looks like it's going to be a good flush.

07/29/2023

Purple podded pole beans.
I grew these heirloom green beans off my front porch. I let them climb the pole that's already there. Gardening in small places can be fun. These will turn green when cooked or canned. But they are pretty now.

07/17/2023

Zelda eating the first tomato. And Zelda 2 years ago eating greens. She has sure grown up.

05/26/2023

04/14/2023

Canned 17 pints of pineapple today. When there is a good sale, I can't resist.

11/12/2022

Apparently the shiitake mushrooms like this weather. These are by far the largest shiitakes we've grown. If you bought a log from us go check it now! Some of the leftover logs from the batch we sold at the farmers market at fruiting also.

11/08/2022

If you bought a log from us, check it now. Some of the logs we have left are fruiting.

10/23/2022

We ate eggs that have been on the Shelf for almost a year. This technique is called water glass eggs. You can only do it with fresh unwashed eggs.

09/09/2022

08/28/2022

Bought a 25 lb bag of carrots! We got 14 quarts canned today. We still have a little under half of the carrots left.

07/19/2022

Clara's favorite place to be is looking at the chickens. She started signing chicken and now she will keep doing it until I take her to the chickens. Luckily we have plenty of laying hens for her to look at also. We still have 30 of the meat chickens to process.

07/15/2022

What a big step we've started to accomplish. We have 18 birds processed. The quality of our processing of the birds is improving. I am so grateful to these birds for providing our family with delicious meat. And I am so excited to start cooking chicken meals again. I have refused to buy chicken from the store for 3 years now. We've eaten around a dozen of our chickens we raised over the past years, but they were pretty tough. These chickens are amazing. They are young and tender. I am very pleased with Cornish cross chickens. These birds are 7.5 weeks old.