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08/29/2026

Candied Jalapeños 🌶️🔥

Candied Jalapeños are a farm favorite around here. We keep a stash on hand year-round because they have a magical way of making just about everything better.

Salads? Yep.
Bowls? Absolutely.
Sandwiches? 100%.
Eating them straight from the jar? I’m not here to judge.

We keep our cowboy candy simple. No extra spices, no complicated ingredient list. Just lots of sweet + lots of heat. Exactly how we like it.

Here’s how we make ours:

🫙 Clean and prep your jars.

🌶️ Slice your jalapeños and pack them into each jar as tightly as possible.

Bring to a boil:

* 4 cups white sugar
* 2 cups brown sugar
* 2 cups water

Pour the hot syrup into each jar, stopping at the base of the threads.

Wipe the rims, add your lids, and tighten finger-tight.

Process according to your preferred safe canning method. I steam-can ours for 15 minutes in 8-ounce jars.

This recipe makes approximately 16 eight-ounce jars.

Sweet enough to keep you coming back for another bite. Hot enough to remind you that you meant business. 😉

08/20/2026

Beez has a better sounding siren for sure

07/28/2026

Some days I’m all in, some days I’m not.

07/24/2026

Fresh Milled Spelt Banana Muffins

Soft, lightly sweet, and made with wholesome ingredients. These muffins are perfect for breakfast, snacks, or freezing for busy mornings.

* 2½ cups freshly milled spelt flour (325 g)
* ½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts (60 g)
* 1 tsp salt (6 g)
* 2 tsp baking powder (10 g)
* ¼ cup dark unrefined cane sugar (40 g)
* 1 tsp ground cinnamon (2 g)
* Pinch ground nutmeg
* 2 eggs
* 1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 bananas) (230 g)
* ¼ cup oil (57 g)
* ¼ cup liquid honey (82 g)
* 1¼ cups milk (or nondairy alternative) (300 g)
* 1 tsp pure vanilla extract (5 g)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C) and grease or line a 12-cup muffin pan.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, pecans, salt, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, mashed bananas, oil, honey, milk, and vanilla.
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. Don’t overmix.
5. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups, filling each about ¾ full.
6. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the tops are golden and spring back when lightly touched.
7. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

Makes 12 muffins.

Freshly milled spelt gives these muffins a soft crumb and rich, nutty flavor. They’re delicious warm with butter, a drizzle of honey, as is, or tucked into the freezer for quick breakfasts later

07/20/2026

Another day, another project.

07/17/2026

The sun is up and the shift has ended.

I thank them every morning for their service as we feed the other animals together. They follow me off the hillside for breakfast and clock out for the day.

07/11/2026

They don’t tell you that support sometimes sounds like, ‘there’s wire nuts in the barn’ and suddenly you’re elbow-deep in brake light wiring.

07/10/2026

Find me the people that know the avocado love language.

-grown in 25gal pots
-organic fertilizer for citrus and avocado
-compost added in early spring
-top of pot is mulched with red wood gorilla hair, this was just done about a week ago.
-zone 9b CA climate in filtered sun, hasn’t been hotter than low 90s
-first year producing, been in these pots for 2 years
-staying moist and water when the tops dry out.

Do I need to up pot? How big?
Is it a water or heat issue?

We’ve been trying to grow avocados for the last 7 years and can’t seem to succeed. The trees in full sun fry, the trees we’ve put in the ground die, this is the longest we’ve made it and they produced this year but are dropping fruit.

07/01/2026

The chickens help manage the compost pile. Here are a few benefits—

Shred the added material
Mix the pile
Add nitrogen
Eat the bugs
Eat some of the scraps
Add beneficial microbes
Control weeds by eating seeds/aprouts
Create a finer finished product
And keep the pile active

You will still turn your pile and keep things moving but giving the chickens access to it while it’s rough and unfinished helps the process along.

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