400 accessions and counting. Started Sweet Baby Jade tomato seeds. Should start my non-annuum peppers but I need to look up which ones need how many individuals to pollinate.

Ok. I made it through the last couple days. Cautiously, hopefully, the last week might have been the worst. It was that acute shock/loss thing where my emotional self just felt like TV static turned on extra loud all the time and I numbly went through the motions -- there were lots of motions, because a LOT of pig processing to do -- and I couldn't ( Read more... )

Today I'm putting up some duck eggs as century eggs. They'll be put into a ratio of 1 litre water, 40g lye, and 60g salt. They should be in there from 3-4 weeks, then into a vac sealed bag.

I'll also be putting up some goose eggs similarly but haven't got a container for them yet.

I'm using 1- to 2- day old eggs, no older.

The duck eggs are clean and ( Read more... )

Tasted and bottled some booze the other day. It's been quite awhile ( Read more... )

I'm planning the orchard. I've ordered birds (blue-egged quail, a greater breadth of breeding chanteclers and cayugas). All my seeds have arrived, mostly ( Read more... )