Sun is shining, the weather is sweet Make you want to move your dancing feet -Bob Marley, Sun Is Shining Much outdoor work is done at Odom’s Idle Acres. In fact, projects and improvements are one of the things that make the name of the farm so paradoxical. On any given weekend there is little [...]
When the garden is planted and the strawberries aren’t quite ripe for picking and the corn has been sewn and there is little else worth doing on a Saturday morning it is a safe bet that quite a few folks can be found heading to the lake or the pond to do a little meditating [...]
I have not told anyone yet until now. So, my dearest blog readers (all 2 or 3 of you) I am pleased to announce that I was contacted by the Managing Editor of The Farmer’s Almanac (yes, that is THE Almanac) to write a piece for the 2011 version. Of course I said “yes, yes, [...]
As Pan and I have moved rapidly into the idea of homesteading and hobby farming we have realized that growing your own food is only half the experience. You can grow as much as you want but I promise you cannot eat it all. At least not at a similar rate. For instance, we plucked [...]
Nothing says “real roadkill” more than a full-size, full-feathered, dead-on-the-side-of-the-road, turkey. I should have picked it up. There weren’t even any flies. It was fresh!
So far the biggest adjustment I have made is the time I go to bed and the time I wake up. When you live in the “city that never sleeps” you realize you can do almost anything at almost anytime so the pressure to get to bed by XYZ time in order to wake up [...]
