Corbin Creek Farm

09/26/2026

11:30 last night, dark, with that nice deep silence of a damp overcast night. Sound asleep, warm and cozy. Then Hoot goes into full alarm mode, barking out of the window. I think he startled the coyote furtively poking around the yard as much as he did me. The coyote skittered out of the yard and went to the snow lot at the end of the road. There he commenced to sing out his displeasure with Hoot for interrupting him. After about a half hour of that, then the silence settled back in. The chickens slept through it all.

09/23/2026

Whoop! There it is!
Frost on the pumpkins this morning!

09/20/2026

Corbin Creek Forge at the farm.
It was a good day to fire up the traditional coal forge for a quick project. I needed a fire poker for my little wood stove. Had a scrap piece of rebar and a hot coal fire.
This is the way I like them, useful and simple.
First photo is at the anvil, second is completed poker, third is the fire box of the forge after cleaning out the clinkers and getting it ready for next time.

09/14/2026

Cool crisp mornings, warm sunny days, is going to be one of those wonderful double-yolked kind of days!

09/06/2026

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. I tried an experiment. One of my farm raised chickens, whole frozen from last years meat birds. I rinsed it off with water and then very liberally sprinkled it inside and out with Redmans salt, got out my cast iron upright chicken cooker, filled the cup with b**r and placed it in my pellet smoker, still frozen. Set the heat to 350°F and high smoke. Cooked by temperature, last hour put the potatoes in the tray, spritzed with water/vinegar occasionally. About 3 hrs and it came out delicious.

08/22/2026

My bug eaters are really happy, now that gnat season is underway. I’m not finding gnats in the house these days and I love it. The plants are growing and happy. Pretty interesting they put their flowers way up on tall stems so the bugs can pollinate them without getting caught on the sticky leaves below. All I do is keep them on 20hrs of LED light, tuned for succulents. Then I keep their tray full of well water.

08/22/2026

I will not be at the Farmers market this morning.

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08/04/2026

07/25/2026

I moved the bell out of the shop for pressure washing today. Then some high-pressure air to begin drying. Then back on its special bench for high res photography, 3d modeling, uv dye testing and scanning.

07/24/2026

Coated the interior of the foundry forge last night. Now that’s dry I can cure it with a first fire.