Angeka On The Farm

CREATING A RURAL LIFE.

You Can’t Keep A Good Garden Down

Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under Activism, cabbage, farm maintenance, planting, sunflowers, tomatoes, vegetables | Leave a Comment

Despite my best efforts to ignore it, the garden just will not go away! I haven’t hoed or sown or watered in months (just don’t ask), yet still hot peppers, green & yellow bell peppers, chinese eggplant, sunflowers and even tomatoes are still popping up. Amazing.
I also have bottle gourds and one, just [...]

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Pickin’ And A-grinnin’

Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under dog, goats, pecans | 1 Comment

Our yard is once again carpeted in pecans thanks to the blustery winds of non-hurricane Ida. Dogs, goats and chickens are eating them faster than I can pick. But luckily, there seems to be plenty to go around.
I have a new-fangled contraption to help pick this year and it is Awe. Some. [...]

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The Gospel According to Chicken (yeah, it’s a lil preachy)

Posted on November 15, 2009 - Filed Under Activism, animals, birds, chickens, food safety, ick!, nutrition, ridiculous city girl | 1 Comment

This morning I woke up to the smell of stewing chicken. It drifted through the house, all the way back to the bedroom, and permeated my dreams until I woke thinking “what is that smell”? Honestly, it didn’t smell that good so early in the morning. I thought someone farted. Since [...]

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