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Part farm journal, part spiritual journey, Touch the Earth Farm blog chronicles one family's adventure of living with the land.
Farm Photo:
Enter Summer
Intro:
We are a family of five: myself, my husband and our three children, ages 11, 10 and 9, homesteading on 5.25 acres in the Northwestern Mountain Region of Maryland (zone 6b). Our land is home to many creatures, and our goals are to farm sustainably, to preserve biodiversity by growing heirloom plants and raising rare breeds of livestock and poultry, and to foster native habitats. The kids and I run a small CSA, which keeps us busy learning and playing.
July:
- seed starts for fall √
- continue succession planting √
- transplant seedlings √
- weed market garden √
- sell calf
Post Perusal:
- Ahimsa, or the ethics of meat eating
- Confronting My Own Hypocrisy
- Crude Awakening, or Preparing for Peak Oil
- From Foodie to Farmer
- Please Pass the Bubblewrap
- Food Security Series:
- Part I, pantry
- Part II, freezer
- Part III, growing
- Part IV, seed saving
- Sustainability series:
- Consumption
- Food
- Gasoline
- Electricity
- Waste
- Water
- Low Carbon Diet:
- Dumping on Garbage
- Reducing Hot Water Usage
Nightstand Reading:
To Do 2009:
blurb blogsbuy CSA bags- buy buck
- buy ram
- community outreach
- composting toilet
- continue making more hard cheeses
- fence in yard
financials for 2008- finish basement rooms
- learn to graft fruit trees
- keep better records
- learn to make goat's milk soap
- learn to tan hides
- learn to make tinctures and infusions
- make Navajo spindles
order more beehive equipmentorder seeds- organize saved seeds
- pasture water source
- plan cover crop and garden rotation
plant front medicinal garden- ramp up piglet marketing
- save seeds
- shear sheep √
- start seeds
- upload and order photos
- well pump
Tools for 2009:
aquarain water filter- bike
- candle molds
- canoe
- compost tea bubbler
- dutch oven
- Foxfire series
- garden tools √
- generator
- hand-pump or solar well
kill-a-watt- incubator
- livestock trailer
- mortar and pestle
- Nutrimill grain mill
- sausage stuffer
- soap molds
- tanning tools and guides
Pipedreams:
- 100 acres
- Biodiesel: tractor and farm truck
Cookstove- Jim: work from home flextime
- Solar hot water heater
- Solar panels on south-facing barn
- Strawbale home
- Yurt
Index:
- awards (2)
- bees (2)
- book reviews (4)
- bread (1)
- cats (4)
- cheese (2)
- csa (16)
- dark days challenge (19)
- family cow (9)
- farm to table (37)
- food for thought (48)
- food security (5)
- garden (43)
- giveaways (2)
- goals (29)
- goats (5)
- hubris (2)
- independence days (21)
- kitchen (10)
- library (1)
- livestock (46)
- low carbon diet (2)
- miscellaneous (13)
- one local summer (12)
- ongoing education (8)
- pantry (3)
- pigs (5)
- recipes (12)
- sheep (5)
- sustainability (29)
- to do (4)
- weather (10)
Information:
Web Resources:
Email Lists:
Catalogs:
Blogroll:
- 12 Happy Chickens
- A Homesteading Neophyte
- Achorn Farm
- Adventures in Farming
- Amlo Farms
- Apifera Farm
- Are We There Yet?
- Barn-Raising
- Blue Skies Urban Farm
- Boulder Belt
- Casaubon's Book
- Children in the Corn
- Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
- Crunchy Chicken
- Crystal Organic Farm
- Dancing in a Field of Tansy
- Dirt Under My Nails
- Farm Dreams
- Farmgirl Fare
- Fast Grow the Weeds
- Free Range Living
- Going Whole Hog
- Green with a Gun
- Green, Blue, Brown
- Grow the Change
- Home Is...
- Homesteading Hickory Hills
- Ironwood Farm Project
- It Blows Here
- Kale for Sale
- Living the Frugal Life
- Living the Liquid Life
- Milk My Cow
- Mommymommyland
- Moon Meadow Farm
- Mountain Mama
- Naturally Natural
- No Impact Man
- Northview Diary
- Organic Schmorganic
- Pile of O'Melays
- Raining Sideways
- Riot 4 Austerity
- Savor Culture
- Small Meadow Farm
- Sugar Creek Farm
- Sugar Mountain Farm
- Thane's Neck Farm
- The Contrary Goddess
- The Ethicurean
- The Purloined Letter
- Throwback at Trapper Creek
- Tyler Farm Homestead
- Unusually Unusual Farmchick
- Urban Hennery
- Wisdom of the Trowel
- Woody's Rocky Ridge
Independence Days Blogs:
- Casaubon's Book
- Chile Chews
- Crunchy Chicken
- Dog's Little Acre
- Eat Close to Home
- Farm Dreams
- Golden Acre Lives On
- Happily Home
- Hedges Happenings
- Justice Desserts
- Kaleidescope Living
- Life in the Lost World
- Naturally Simple
- Perry Hill Farm
- Red State Green
- Seeking Simplicity
- Stepwise
- The Potager
- The Zahn Zone
- Waste Wear Daily
- Where's Your Line
Causes:
3 comments:
I hear you. Having no pictures to add to my posts paralyzes my blogging.
Hope your camera gets fixed soon!
I have a random request. :)
If you were going to purchase a new pressure canner and money were really no object since it is very important for your family of 7....which one would you purchase.
I am curious about the fact that the ones I've found online are aluminum. Is that a concern for you?
(I'm also searching for a good manual grain mill.)
I don't mind no pictures. It reminds me to go back and read your old posts for the sheer pleasure of doing so.
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