The weather has been cooperating and so I have been walking 2 miles a day (for those metal hips) and trying my best to work in the garden. I do not love getting my hands dirty with soil while insects feast on my neck and ears. There seems to be alot of pulling up and killing of anything we did not plant, which makes our garden beautiful, but plays havoc with the shoulders. I think I'm getting into it. I do love to eat the vegetables that grow in it.
To compensate for not having a cow, we have begun buying raw milk from a local farmer. Tonight we are making a kind of cream cheese called marscapone. We were making mozarella and ricotta but we still have some of each in the frig and two more gallons are due to arrive this evening. We don't have enough room in our refrigerator for the projects we've been doing lately. We are also growing oyster mushrooms. We harvested 2 and half pounds yesterday and today, we picked about a half pound.
There are more coming, too. We made 2 beds, each with a different strain of Oyster mushroom. The second bed is beginning to fruit. We will eat them fresh, pickle them and dry them.
All this is to say that I haven't been blogging. I will try to get the promised pictures from previous posts into their places. I do have mushroom pictures but I'm not even going to say anything about it until I catch up.
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