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a handmade life a handmade life step by step on the path of simple living thursday june 14 2012 mille bornes poppies curry and pie a half day off vibrant poppies first crop of peas to snack on mille bornes a favourite game in our family my one from childhood misplaced in the last year but another one found at the thrift store last week and played endlessly since a cast iron pot of curry on the stove made with loads of veggies from the garden including garlic scapes and mustard greens and rhubarb cut up on the counter ready to be made into the last rhubarb custard pie of the season and then shared with friends tonight our dog testing new dog biscuit recipes e is making to sell at the farm stand a different recipe in each hand and finding out which hand he licks the most the apple and greens recipe seemed to be his favourite life is good posted by heather at 4 00 pm 54 comments labels i dig good food gardening life is good thursday june 7 2012 rhubarb custard pie a friend a fellow pie lovin friend sent me a link to this recipe rhubarb custard pie to be reckoned with how could i not make a pie with that name and so i did make it then i made it again and then again and yet not one photo of the baked finished pie why s that it s simply too good we couldn t wait to eat it it truly is a rhubarb pie to be reckoned with posted by heather at 5 12 pm 7 comments labels good food sunday june 3 2012 farmstand i ve already posted about how well the farmstand is coming along on the market garden site but i couldn t resist sharing it here too it really is looking just as i d hoped and i m so pleased a few more things to do still but it s lovely already what a talented family i have i feel very blessed that s and the boys were able to make this happen if you d like to see a bit more you can check here or better yet drop by and visit in person posted by heather at 2 42 pm 13 comments labels i dig good food gardening friday may 25 2012 first farmers market and lots of radishes well it seems blogger has completely changed while i was busy in the market garden it took me a few minutes to even figure out how to post now tomorrow is our first farmers market and i m feeling quite excited initially i had thought i would try to quickly harvest everything on the morning of the market love fresh just picked but after considering it for a bit changed my mind we starting harvesting first thing this morning and it s a good thing we did it took longer than i thought and that was with one harvesting and one washing and bundling we ve got most of two fridges packed with bags of lettuce and spinach bundles of radishes and kale the radishes are truly stunningly beautiful even though we were hurrying to get the harvest done so we could get back to planting i made time to snap some photos it s possible i may have had a hard time not taken a ridiculous amount of photos of radishes fresh ripe vegetables are as beautiful to me as flowers in bloom it is important to me to use as little plastic as possible and so as much as we can we are bundling with compostable twine we will need to use plastic bags for our leaf lettuce and mixed greens but our head lettuces i m hoping customers will pop right into their cloth shopping bags tomorrow morning i ll harvest the head lettuces and the little bit of rhubarb we have and head to the market all the head lettuces look beautiful to me and a small part of me wants to just leave them there growing in their lovely rows and beds freckles above is so fun and this one marvel 4 seasons is truly gorgeous love the colours while i m there my family will be working on the farm stand as we plan to open it this coming week or next saturday june 2 at the latest i made a bit of time for my banner sewing i had just about given up the idea of taking time for sewing the triangles right side together and then turning them right side out too time consuming just now and had decided i would just sew each triangle on the twine as is so one sided when my friend suggested i just zig zag them right side out and be done with it that sounded very good to me they re all zigged and zagged and now i just have to space them out on the twine once i see how i want them to hang on the stand along with my farmer tan i m also keeping farmers hours awake before the sunrise shortly after 4 am which means i m also ready for bed before my boys are i keep thinking things will slow down a bit once everything is planted but i m realizing that with this much property and succession planting that there is no once everything is planted i m having a fantastic time though and looking forward to meeting some people at the market tomorrow and sharing our love of fresh vegetables with our community we ve been at this for several months now and it feels so good to finally be harvesting something to sell posted by heather at 5 33 pm 10 comments labels i dig good food gardening life is good sunday may 6 2012 farm stand fabric and morels we ve been working everyday at the market garden trying to get things ready i ve been busy in the field and greenhouse and my family has been working hard on the farmstand it is such a treat to look up from my work and see my boys working with s at building a gorgeous stand it s going to look wonderful when it s done yesterday they put the roof on and did most of the shingles today they will do the siding our signs were ready this week as well and it really feels as though everything is coming together we ve even got irrigation up and running in half our north field so we were able to plant half our main potatoes i ve been planting planting and planting some more and potting on loads of tomatoes i did take time out yesterday to go for a walk with a friend along the creek we were walking back along the path and saw a man with a bag in his hand and we both guessed that he was collecting mushrooms we talked with him for a bit saw his bags of loot and then we also started looking for mushrooms it was interesting to both of us to see how many mushrooms we d walked right by the first time when we d been so busy talking and catching up that we weren t looking for anything else once we knew there were mushrooms right alongside the path we started seeing them everywhere over a month ago i started cutting out some fabric to make a pennant banner for the farm stand it seems the stand will be built before i get it sewn together actually at the rate i m going it may well be built before i even finish cutting the triangles out life is very busy but very very good posted by heather at 7 34 am 9 comments labels i dig good food gardening life is good make it yourself wild foods and herbals sunday april 8 2012 happy easter well things have been a little erm hectic around here and it seems it has been some time since i ve visited here thank you to those people who emailed me and offered such kind thoughts and compliments i do appreciate it this weekend life seemed to get a little more on track something to do with three days at home and we had plenty of time for enjoying lots of family visiting walks a hike with some geocaching work in the yard and of course egg dyeing this year thanks to my visiting sister in law we had the opportunity to dye duck eggs and e even got to do a goose egg the eggs picked up the colours brilliantly and it was extra fun to get to dye them with auntie c e was pleased with his goose egg he wanted to do one similar to his favourite one from last year of course there were chocolate eggs inside and outside egg hunts can offer such a great lesson you ll always find something good if you re willing to look quite a lot of time lately has been spent at the market garden if you re at all interested in following along with us as we make our way through our first year of market gardening you can see what we ve been up to here it s a new website that w put together for us and i m planning on catching things up there too as soon as possible posted by heather at 7 51 pm 9 comments labels life is good never hesitate to celebrate sunday march 11 2012 sourdough starter sprouts and yogurt it s been a bit of a frazzled week around here restoration workers still in the basement dental issues sickness but there was also comfort to be found in the kitchen i always think that centuries of women must have found comfort and calm during trying times in their daily rounds in the kitchen and in the rhythm of food preparation i ve been wanting to make sourdough starter for ages and when i came across this wonderful tutorial i couldn t resist i made the starter with the help of our oven light and once it was ready to use then put it to good use making a couple loaves of sourdough i ended up using the starter to make the whole wheat sourdough bread recipe from my salt spring island cooking cookbook one loaf was a boule shape which we quickly finished off with our lunch and the other loaf was made in this thrifted bread pan french is not something my boys are very familiar with but i was surprised when they both asked me why it said pain on the bread pan was it meant to imply that it was a pain to make homemade bread i told them that pain was bread in french and then thought back to my own years of french lessons and then wondered if the boys would know more french if we ate more processed food my brother and i used to practice our french by reading labels on cereal boxes etc at our breakfast at any rate this bread was not a pain to make and i ve tucked the starter away in the fridge so that we will be able to enjoy it regularly since i had to have the oven light on for the starter i thought i might as well make another batch of yogurt in the oven i used to use this method to make homemade yogurt but recently found it to be much easier just to pour the mixture into a casserole dish and set it in the oven overnight there is no need to put the light on for the yogurt you can just warm the oven for a minute before placing the dish in but i found the oven light worked nicely as well and since we re all feeling hungry for greens and fresh anything we ve started making sprouts again i love to have these on sandwiches but e likes them so much he will just snack on them while he reads sprouts aren t the only thing sprouting around here there are lots of onions on the go as well as some early tomatoes and peppers that are just about ready to move to the greenhouse nothing like veggie seedlings to make one feel more springish posted by heather at 10 38 am 14 comments labels good food make it yourself older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me heather mama to two boys who learn at home and always have i am passionate about natural learning i am also a maniacal gardener no really view my complete profile labels education is everywhere 21 family matters 34 good books 22 good food 150 good words 7 handmade 71 i dig good food gardening 145 just do it 25 life is good 128 life is short laugh long 27 living learning and loving 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