I want to share with you the strange things that are coming out of my garden.This carrot for example, which looks like a chicken:Or this scale-tipping carrot...a 1.125 pounder.There was a 1.5 pounder even, but I ate it. I turned it into carrot soup.I never think of carrot soup except in the moment that I'm eating…
Another milestone this week at Tulipwood! The gals are starting to lay eggs! Can you believe it? It feels like just a few months ago that I was posting pictures of these tiny little things, and they are now laying eggs? Well, at least one of them is.... and they are very tiny. Look at them compared to one of Lucy's…
Loretta has been through a thing or two. Even though she doesn't live with the other chickens, she has stories to tell. After she was beaten up a few times by Buster, she had to start living closer to people, so that we could keep an eye on her and so the Rhode Island reds…
If you haven't heard already, Lucy had a big day a few weeks ago. And then she had a really big day. She laid this:Look at it compared to a regular egg, it's a giant!But it gets better...It's not one giant egg...It's twins! A double yolked egg. Can you believe it?Two for the price of…
I wish to spread this time of year out, to add little portions of it to other months. There's so much food, too much food, much picking and tending and tugging to be done. My least favorite thing to pick is green beans. There are always too many, and they camouflage themselves superbly. When I miss…
Lucy arrived one morning in the arms of Carmen, the beloved housekeeper who removes all the bird droppings off the kitchen floor after the roving fowl view the open door as an invitation, and decide to stop in for a visit.She was rather scrawny at first, Carmen didn't really explain where she'd gotten her from. She just…
There's been so much rain in the Northeast this summer, that the quince trees have borne rotted fruit. I've missed most of that rain though, and I never thought I'd say so, but I miss it. I've spent most of this summer in arid climates where you can't count on rain to wash away the…
"I just found the best bundt cake recipe in the entire United States," so said my grandmother as she handed me a piece... she tends to modify recipes often, adding a bit of this and that along the way. Some yogurt here, some honey there. So you're never quite sure how it got to be…
Just finished the summer honey harvest at Tulipwood! I'd like your list of things that are better that a piece of raw honeycomb. Especially when paired with a cheese plate. The honey is making its way from a big metal vat that uses centrifugal force to extract honey, into charming little hexagonal jars.