Making Neufchatel

This morning I finished up my very first batch of Neufchatel cheese, a very soft goat cheese that you can put on bread and crackers like cream cheese.

Early March

These are some pictures taken a week or so ago as things were starting to really warm up! These warm temperatures are very unusual for March, and we haven’t been about to let them go by without taking full advantage to get crops in the ground! Our animals have...

Hoop House

As promised here are the pictures of the 12×32 hoop house we erected over the Christmas holidays. We are looking forward to seeing what crops we can grow between now and the start of the regular growing season.

First Winter Planting

Over the weekend, Liz and I put our first winter planting in. We erected our new hoop house over the Christmas holidays (pictures to come soon), and we put our first seeds into the ground over MLK weekend. This first planting is something of an experiment to see what...

Garden 2011

Yesterday, I took the opportunity — in between raindrops — to snag a few pictures of our garden for this year. Our starts are doing pretty well, and most of the seeds we’ve planted have started to germinate and sprout. The rain, cold as it was, has...