Monday, February 19, 2024

Photo tour of the farm

  Most of these photos are old photos already on our blog, but they're all here together for a broader look at our farm.

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Corn made into hominy, ground, pressed, and cooked on the griddle into tortillas.





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Cracking black walnuts


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Our favorite summer pea variety.  Our original seed source was Eric's great uncle in Harnett County.

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A sampling of different summer pea varieties we grow.



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In the background are our first attempt at storing hay in old-fashioned haystacks and our little corn crib.


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Moveable shade for the goats made out of bamboo.  




One of our (Nora's) first aged goats milk cheeses.  We were very happy with it.



Leaf mold to be used for potting mix once finished




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One of our farm visitors helping us hang up onions to dry.


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Our now 16 and 18 year olds milking the cow.


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One of our farm visitors milking the cow.


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Skimming milk to make butter.


Butter



Cheese press





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A quick hive inspection on a warm winter day.

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Making candles with our beeswax.






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Pawpaws


Hardy kiwis (smaller, smooth skinned/not fuzzy, delicious)



Kaki X American persimmon tree


Kaki persimmon



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Threshing black beans


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Winnowing black beans


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A photo from soon after we planted our first apple trees, well over 10 years ago.


Jersey steaks


Making hardwood charcoal in our outdoor water stove



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Just some of the seeds we saved one year.


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Onion seed


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Onion seed after threshing


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Nursery bed prepared for planting onion seed in the late fall.  We set onion plants out in the garden the following spring.


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Mama hen


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The first litter of piglets born on our farm





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A neighbor friend helping us scald and butcher a hog


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Cold frame


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Young goat roasted with spring onions, butter and garlic, asparagus, fried grit cakes and lettuce salad. 


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The seed cleaner we use mostly for cleaning (sifting, scalping, and winnowing the remaining chaff and weed seeds out of) our wheat.





Our favorite salad - dried figs, goat cheese,  and lightly toasted pecans.


Fresh wild-harvested winter oyster mushrooms


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A weekly CSA share


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Cultivated shitake mushrooms


Frying sweet potato chips


Persimmons from a wild tree on our farm


Persimmon pulp


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Canned and dried food


Digging a trench to lay a drain tile through the middle of the garden beside our house.


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Saving seeds from the tomato variety we grow more of than any other, an extra meaty variety.


Tortillas with a mix of different varieties of dried peas (similar to black-eyed peas), with canned pork, goat cheese, with fresh cilantro and onions, roasted red peppers from the freezer, fresh Swiss chard on the side, cow's milk to drink... 


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Bamboo shoots


Getting ready to install the water stove and making an extra large split bamboo basket for storing acorns.



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Bedding the different varieties of sweet potatoes we grow


Harvesting potatoes



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Sampling sweet potatoes.  Sweet potatoes are one of our favorite crops to grow and to eat.



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With some protection on the coldest winter nights we're able to grow outstanding quality citrus with hardly any other trouble.


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The inside of our pea sheller, which we use for dry peas and beans


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Fermenting peppers for hot sauce


Reunion with former WWOOF farm stay visitors


Harvesting peanuts




Splitting basket splints from white oak



Harvesting tulip-poplar bark for siding