Eating from The Land, Your Hand, Your Garden:
Tonight EVERYTHING for supper is from Nature or from the garden!
Crock Pot Mule Deer Tenderloin - with onions and cream of mushroom soup and mushrooms. I will make a gravy to go over...
...FREE Pontiac potatoes from the neighbor. Baked.
Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash.
Applesauce - homemade from our apple trees.
Life Is Good!
Cow Chronicles: I believe the farmer lost a cow today. I had noticed a cow lying down for a long time late morning & I wasn’t seeing her head up - looked like a black lump. While making dinner, I saw the farmer checking the field - it was after dark. When he got to the downed cow, he stopped with his truck headlights on her. I never saw movement or saw him working on her, etc. His truck was there 20-30 minutes with no movement or action & then he went on & left the field. So that’s a calf loss last week & now a cow. I never noticed any issues last year with the cows/calfs so this calving season is starting out rough. For sure it wasn’t White Face - I saw her up and around this afternoon. Funny Face is harder to pick out so hopefully it wasn’t her either. Losses happen with livestock & to a certain extent are expected, but it’s still sad.
Sounds amazing! I always forget to add my Land, Hand, Garden eats, but for the most part, it’s either fresh herbs, baby potatoes, cherry tomatoes, or the most amazing and versatile shishito peppers!
Yours sounds heavenly, Diana!
A youtube on surviving cold in the middle ages. Some of this is good info, some is understandable, but are not practices that we want to return to. (Communal beds, living in the same building with our livestock, etc) Some info still relevant today. (Protect skin with fat/lotion when you go outside in the cold!)
Why Medieval Peasants Never Froze in -40°F While Modern Homes Die in 1 Day