Musings from our Farm

Pictured today are some of our autumn-early winter CSA boxes being unloaded from the trailer. Lots of great greens this week!


The wind is blowing, the clouds are gray, and it's getting colder here on the farm today! Thankfully yesterday was a beautiful day since we had visitors. Our farming acquaintences that visited yesterday from Virginia are a Menonite couple. What a nice visit we had with them. Christine brought me home made Raspberry Jam, Salsa, and fresh garlic! After a good visit they were off to continue their trip to see relatives for the holidays.It was a nice day to walk around, visit and exchange ideas with one another.

While walking over the farm yesterday, our visitors pointed out something new to us that we had not really known about until then. Several areas are covered in small leaf bitter Cress! This cress when it's young, developes into a small rosette that's very delicate looking and really delicious! We all sampled it yesterday! It would be a great addition to a green salad, or used as a garnish. It's really funny how many "wild" things grow on the farm that are edible, delicious and good for you. Another example of this are the Elderberries that grow here! Something entirely knew to me that I recently learned is that "cattails" you see growing
around ponds and lakes, have a portion inside of them that are very edible and supposedly delicious. We have a bank of them here at the farm around our pond, and I am going to cut one open and give it a try! I suppose these things are the food stuffs of the "hunters and gatherers" of old!

Today is a different story weatherwise, but I can't let it stop me as the porches have to be swept and hosed down. I can't figure out why, but after we have a day or two of rain, the front porch is littered with earthworms, and once they dry, the skeletons are not easily removed. I intended to sweep porches yesterday but after our visitors had left, I had to take "Baby", one of our cats to the Vet's office. She was limping and favoring her left foot. I was worried that she had broken a bone, but the Vet gave her an anti-inflammatory medication, (that we will continue till gone), and she seems better today. The vet seemed to think there was a cut on one of her paw pads that was painful for her. Hopefully she will mend soon!

Happy Holidays!
Judy