Articles tagged with “chickens”
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Catching Up
20 July, 11:43 PM
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I started my new job today. This was immediately (and I do mean immediately — maybe even simultaneously) preceded by turning in a draft of my thesis. Phew. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks.
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There really is a summer this year. It’s finally been warmer and I’ve gotten the obligatory first sunburn. (Say what you will about skin cancer – my self esteem is way higher when I am wearing a nice summer bronze.)...
Filed under Food, Outdoors and tagged with birds, chickens, eating, food, garden, gardening, photos, summer, vegetables, wildlife.
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Experiments in Homegrown Eating
24 June, 11:15 AM
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Q: What do strawberries, scup, pasta, and Cornish Rock chicks have in common?
A: They are all recent players in my “getting to know your food” trials.
I picked close to 15 pounds of strawberries the weekend that Tony Andrews Farm opened. It’s roughly 3 minutes from home and the plants were loaded with beautiful, brilliant red berries. I picked and picked and picked until my knees and thighs said “no more!” But then I picked...
Filed under Food and tagged with berries, cape cod, chickens, eating, fish, food, garden, local, outside, pasta, photography, photos, scup, seafood.
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Ode to Radishes
5 June, 06:06 PM
A brief garden update: I have been eating radishes and enjoying lettuce and herbs. Radishes are delicious but sometimes so pretty they’re difficult to eat.
The tomatoes are looking very happy and I believe I have now collected at least 7 varieties in the garden. Some heirloom, some hybrid, which makes me feel a little sleazy but we’ve all got to start somewhere.
In effort...
Filed under Outdoors, Food and tagged with chickens, dogs, garden, outside, plants, radishes, vegetables.
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by brian & jake