Amy's Farm

The tales of one mother and her backyard farm - enjoying life and food.

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This was the first time that I drank tomato juice that didn't come from a can. It came from my garden. I was surprised how different fresh tomato juice tastes. It made some awesome Bloody Mary's!

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Herb flowers are beautiful!

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Fresh Peas from the garden! Yum!

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Time to begin the summer feast!

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Everything is growing like crazy! The tomatoes are getting bigger and bigger and not turning colors! Composted chicken manure does wonders!

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Here are my bell pepper seeds popping and my husband’s first attempt at time-lapse photography using his raspberry pi.

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Spring planting time. This year, we had ivy growing into the planting boxes, up through the landscape fabric on the ground. We emptied the boxes, pulled the roots, and stapled layers of fabric directly onto the bottom of the boxes, and up the sides. It was hard work, but, so far, the tomatoes are very happy. We will find out in the fall if our plan worked.

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I picked and dehydrated ancho chiles today. My kitchen smells soooo good!

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Making Sauerkraut - We picked 3 cabbages (about 10 lbs. total) and are turning them into 4 half gallons of sauerkraut.

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A plump, juicy winter tomato. Not bad for January!

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A little trim of my collard tree gave us a nice bowl of collards for New Year's Day. Collard greens for New Year's Day is a Southern tradition, eaten in hopes for a prosperous New Year. I bought it as a 3 inch plant a few years ago and planted it in the ground. It keeps growing and giving. Seems pretty prosperous to me.

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She cleans up well!

[carlboygenius]

[biodiverseed]

#quotes #meditations

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Hell yeah!

[natureisthegreatestartist]

[biodiverseed]

#quotes #meditations

[biodiverseed]

Worldwide Directory of Heirloom Seed Companies

I once read that around 50% of the world’s seed supply is controlled by three multinationals, and around 70% of it is controlled by ten.

Consider purchasing heirloom seed from smaller, independent firms, or saving and swapping your own seeds through free services like myfolia.

You can do your part to preserve the genetic diversity in our food system, and keep rare plant genetics in the commons.

#resources #seed sellers #seed kits #heirloom seeds

h/t to mostlyjudson

[coloradohounds]

Took some photos of our flock yesterday :3 It was pretty cold so I got a lot of cute fluffed up shots!

Chickens are:

Bindii & Clover (Golden Laced Wyandotte)

Pickle & Snowdrop (Speckled Sussex)

Chipmunk (Easter Egger)

Myrtle (Blue Ameraucana)

[amysfarm]

So chubby!!

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knit chicken fashions by Brady Lee / number1birdstore

[chimsart]

Why is this so cute?! Little chickens living their hipster chicken lives.

[angrygirlcomics-prime]

Omfg

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[keeperofthehens]

Fun Chicken Fact: some people knit or sew little “sweaters” for chicken for various reasons. Like if when a rooster jumps on a hen’s back for breeding they can pull out the hen’s back feathers. So these help prevent that and protect the hens. Or chickens from battery farms often have bad feather growth so people put these on them until they get healthy and full of feathers again!

Although these guys are obviously pet chickens with very doting owners!

[hqcreations]

are we not even going to talk about the egg cozies?

[amysfarm]

So cute!