Firesign Farm

I was doing some cellar maintenance earlier today. I noticed some mold on the stem end of the last zucchini - left to grow huge last summer,...

Barely a week past the solstice, but the chickens can tell the days are already getting longer - two eggs yesterday, another one today. We l...

I'd pulled the soaker hoses off the rest of the onions a few weeks ago, and bent down those tops still upright. After a couple of weeks ...

I'm very happy with my Walla Walla onion trial this year. The plants, ordered in February, received mid-March, and planted in early A...

This year's garlic has been harvested, cleaned, and braided. The braid is now hanging in the cutout between kitchen and living room, whe...

Onions end up in just about everything I cook for dinner, quite often in breakfasts too, and many of my canning recipes. Despite numerous at...

A couple of warm days, after weeks of snow and way-below freezing temps, and the snow has melted. Of course, seasonal temperatures are forec...

I was out of carrots in the house, and wanted some for the black-eyed peas this afternoon. Time for a trip down to the cellar. We got about ...

A steady drizzle of rain, starting last night and on into today, and the six inches of snow from two days ago is melting. Instead of shoveli...

Canning jars used to seal with a clear, ringing, PING! It was almost bell-like, and loud. I could hear it throughout the entire house. I...

The cupboards and pantry are filling up with jars containing this year's harvest. One of the pints of yesterday's tomatillo salsa di...

As our cold weather season approaches, the warm weather crops must be harvested before the first frost. Dealing with the resulting glut of f...

When I was a kid, I asked Santa for a ChemLab one Christmas - back then, a toy laboratory in a tri-fold tin box. The best part, for me, was ...

It's so nice to see Spring moving in, even with its starts and stops. It means fresh change for our seasonal eating choices. The cellar ...

Even though the past summer wasn't the best in terms of garden output, we're still eating pretty good around here. On my latest trip...

It seemed like this year's Bosc pears all ripened overnight, down in the cellar. One day a few were just starting to change color, by th...

Yesterday, I got seven and a half pounds of cabbage, from ones that split and heads too little to store, shredded, salted, and packed into a...

Dang! Usually I don't have to worry about my cabbages splitting until mid-September. They do just fine on their every-third-day soaker h...

So, my canning season has started. I don't get fruit crops every year, depending on how our late Spring frosts hit, but this year have v...

After a couple of days outside in the shade, it was time to get my garlic harvest into shape to store. Usually, when garlic is almost ready ...