Happy Harvest Blog
Dumpster diving: reports from the food waste front
Once I pulled up to our usual dumpster with my partner, and another truck was already there (yes, a truck is appropriate for the quantity of food). The pig farmer it belonged to was standing atop the dumpster with a hayfork, stabbing 1-3 bags of potatoes at a time and pitching them into his pickup bed. The dumpster was too full to shut, with five pound bags of Yukon Golds.
Squirrel mayhem
Just before I left I wondered what that squirrel had dropped, and looked for it on the floor.It was a Hershey's kiss! Gold foil wrapped.
Chicken Dinner- Generating Grub (s)
Warning: Disgusting factor on this post high. Cute factor nil. It's about larvae. I had a hen die of natural causes. I was digging a hole to bury her in when I thought, What am I doing? I need to use her as a protein generator. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock suggests creating your own, and better quality, chicken feed, in part by generating grubs from offal.
Jailbird
On Saturday I was shocked awake by a bird smashing into a window with the force of a snowball. I ran outside and found the bird gasping and quivering on its back, scooped it up, and took it in, holding it for several minutes, with my whole hand wrapped in a towel for dark, soothing.
MAPLE SAP KOMBUCHA!
I bottled the first batch and it is aMAZing. I'm saying it myself.It first occurred to me when I was reading about syrup reduction and encountered a comment explaining that sometimes a 'mother' can form on top in the bottle of syrup, and this is a distasteful, undesirable thing..... wait, what?Did somebody say 'mother'?
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
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