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Jan. 4th, 2010 @ 06:59 pm Happy New Year!
Current Location: florida
Current Mood: peacefulpeaceful
Current Music: reggae
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I am totally trying to be more diligent about everything i do - and to do it all with more consistancy
today was a back on the farm day for me :)
i helped to clean out room in the freezer for some wild pig parts - the dog here killed one of the wild pigs, and well, the boys have decided to eat it...
and then i cut some strawberries to freeze - mmm organic strawberries!
i helped to clear out a row of tomatoes - it is so cold here this week and the vine was about dead anyway so...now i have a tomato ripening plant on the front screen porch. i may be making and canning some pasta sauce soon.
i picked all the nagami kumquats off of two trees, and cleared some tangerines as well. with these freezing temps, we dont want to lose the fruit we have! corey and i then spent the afternoon hanging loofah squash to dry in the barn. there is still more to be hung....
then it was errands in town and now i have to organize my life
after dinner of course
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Dec. 8th, 2009 @ 06:26 pm its been almost a week!
i cannot believe how long it has been !!
i did a handmade holiday market, as well as the sweetwater market this past weekend. it ended up being very nice, but i was and still am exhausted.
monday on the farm was a cane sugar squeezing - to make our cane syrup. some sweetwater folks, as well as some visitors, came out to help. we had a potluck lunch, including vermont popcorn. it was soo nice we ate and boiled cane juice all day and did not have a formal dinner :) too fun! i got to play with simara - who is 4 and a half and just sooo smart and amazing!
today was a busy day! i was wanting to take the day off and sew, but deb has a big delivery tomorrow including to a cafe!! so we had to work! i picked lima beans and put them in our solar dehydrator this morning. then picked collards, kale, dill, basil, arugala, bundled spinach, and picked lettuce. i also planted 6 trays of assorted lettuce, listening to the blues cruise on wmnf. i love that station! i managed to repot a dozen strawberry plants. i was sad to see that my plantain trees are not looking so good...hopefully it is just the stress of transport and repotting....and then i worked on sanding my birdhouse gourds. i sold six last weekend, and have people wanting them this weekend!
but i also have hula hoop orders, and some custom pants to make, as well as the holiday bizarre this weekend!
so tomorrow is shopping and sewing day!
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Dec. 2nd, 2009 @ 06:13 pm flea market
and possible rain coming any time now!
i woke up and shattered my french press this morning. luckily we have our old bottom, and the new top fit it, so we were able to have coffee :) i also sold a skirt on etsy over night so i was in a pretty good mood considering
we had a great brisk bike ride to the flea market - thru a private drive with peacocks :) all day it has been crazy windy! waiting for this storm to blow in!
so we had some fun shopping, spent only like 11 dollars :) and biked home. i had to re do the calamundin jam from yesterday - re boil it, because it wasnt setting. i like the idea of not using pectin - everything in the jar is on this farm and i can always have jam :) so i boiled and boiled while listening to alan watts. he was quite funny today, but i cannot say i remember much of what was said :) i spoke to my father for a bit as well, he was in a good mood, and talking all about our baby alex (my nephew) over thanksgiving and how big and happy he is...on all solid foods..he is 8 months :) and then i arranged for a women to come to the farm for loofah's...i picked green beans, purple beans, okra and tomatoes, and then the women arrived. she stayed for an hour and we chatted, and i sold her anything we had laying around :) she was very happy for the back scrubbing loofahs :) then i picked winged beans, and kumquats - i ate the kumquats :) i then sat and sanded some more gourds...i cut and painted another four - one shaker and four real bird houses this time. i have to get the sticks in them tonight so i will be on schedule for my event on friday..hmmmmm then i ordered some christmas presents online hehe i cannot help myself when it comes to good deals...and i ordered business cards for me and the farm, people will be happy :)
well it is still windy...and corey is bored so i must run....i have to weave more hemp and sew tonight, as well as weave the hemp on the shaker...sounds like a long night....
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 05:17 pm Tuesday already?
i cannot believe how time flies! i guess it is because i am so so busy...
i woke up and had coffee today whilst making little newspaper seedling pots for selling starts....and then i cut and sewed and cut and sewed for a while...had some left over tofu chili for lunch, and then replanted some of our starts in these cute flower pot thangs i made :) also replanted some tomatoe plants....and then i replanted another 2 dozen strawberry plants....and then i worked on making more bread and butter pickles, as well as 20 jars of calimondin and tangerine jam...i hope it tastes good!
see, i dont know that i accomplished much but i was busy all day! and i just am so stressed about sewing and making things for this christmas season that i am so behind on , and then i am booked every weekend between now and christmas so...corey says i just need to calm down and work on one thing at a time, but that is so hard for me...
also, now i have to either pay for flickr or delete pics from it...what to do?? i love my flickr
any advice ?
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Nov. 30th, 2009 @ 05:20 pm Holiday Season Has Begun....
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and i am completely stressed and exhausted already!!! with the whole black friday/cyber monday noise that i dropped the ball on this year. last year i was crazy about it, offered all kinds of deals and did mad promoting! of course i sold nothing, until literally the minute the sale ended...and then i had some sales. christmas was a great online season for me last year. and i am excited for it this year. i have opened another online store, with mostly swirly skirts featured...www.lovepeaceanddye.artfire.com
so of course thanksgiving was a great day of feasting and enjoying our beautiful surroundings. i took a morning walk down the elderberry path, and found beautiful ceaser weed flowers, and balsom pears...they are totally weird! i will be uploading pics to flickr so you should check out the ecofarm roses and such :) www.flickr.com/photos/lovepeaceanddye
friday was a cane syrup making day :) it was quite cold, but fun. i managed to steal away long enough to pick okra, green beans, tomatoes, and winged beans. we had to cover some of the garden, as the temp got down to the upper thirties, and i dont want to risk a hit on our tomatoes!
"and after another thanksgiving dinner that couldnt be beat... " friday night, i had to do the lakeland downtown curbside market saturday - which was nice :) i had some great fans come out, and made some new ones!
sunday we all got up and went to the sweetwater organic market. ecofarm and love peace and dye had a booth right be side the stage! from now til christmas people. it was fun, again, made some new fans...scheduled our next cane squeezing with the sweetwater folks...
today i was in quite the melancholy mood...i listened to ferron all morning while making kale and rape chips...mmmmmm....as well as prepping cucumbers for tomorrows round of bread and butter pickles! i also hope to jam some calimundins and tangelos...we have alot of them! and with the recent cold, all the citris is starting to ripen! my kumquats are coming in!
so...i glossed some more finished birdhouse gourds and am hoping to have a nice basket for sale this weekend. i replanted 24 strawberry cones, as we are about to start selling plants as well...our strawberries are all fruiting! i cannot wait! then i had to run into town - bill day! no fun at all!
so now i am listing and adding items to my online store, as well as getting some online work done...tomorrow i plan on jaming and pickling, and then lots and lots of sewing and maybe working on more gourds.....
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Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 09:01 pm happy thanksgiving!
i have been a bit delinquent about posting. we have been busy picking beans, and harvesting, and weeding spinach. i have made at least another batch of pickles, and i have been painting birdhouse gourds and hope to be selling them soon, as bird feeders, and shakers. pictures coming this weekend
we are having a huge thanksgiving fest tomorrow.
last night we went out for thai food. there was a little storm, and somehow it knocked our power out. so we didnt have power again until this morning...
but have a great thanksgiving my loves. we will be relaxing, and it is well deserved. i will get bback on the ball with this friday i swear :)
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Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 05:18 pm harvesting thursday
today was a pretty slow day - i was able to trace and cut swirly panels from like 8-10 this morning, and i have a pile of things to sew this evening. then i went out to help harvest for the friday tampa market. deb and diane go to that one, as i am busy with a conference this weekend!
http://thebarefootgardener.org/SLConference2009.htm
should be super fun! so we harvested some rape, and some collards, and arugula, which is awesome and huge! we have some beets finally !! so it was an easy day, i also grabbed a couple of cucumbers and okra while i was out there. our tomatoes are ripening!
i made lunch, and we got to try those dill refrigerator pickles - oh how good they are! corey says they should have more vinager, but i think this batch is good :) i mopped the floor in the kitchen, and ran to town for the post office and some other errands.
when i came home corey was planting kale and dill in the garden, so i helped him with that. then i have been tracing and cutting ever since. i have to get my talk together for this conference now, and then sew all night...well, i also have to watch more of the tommyknockers mini series hehe, corey and i like our movies :)
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Nov. 18th, 2009 @ 06:00 pm tuesday and wednesday on the farm
well...where to begin ?? i finished my pickling tuesday morning, with some hopefully sweet bread and butter pickles....they are all canned and yummy and we get to eat that as well as the dill/garlic refrigerator pickles ! and then it was a good old fashioned cane squeezing here on the farm. apparently we do it the cracker way with a mill that we press the sugar cane thru - this requires one of us to drive around in a circle on a tractor - it is pretty fun for a while, and then you get dizzy. it takes 60 gallons of cane juice to fill our big iron pot, and then it takes about 3-4 hours of stoking the fire to cook out all the impurities. the air smells amazing while you are doing this! this was the first cane squeezing of the season, and an early one, but we got alot of cane syrup bottled from it. we sell the syrup as a sugar substitute for everything! i want to get the ecofarm etsy store rocking and rolling so i can put the bottles on there. we bottle out at the sugar shack where the boiling goes down. then i cleaned basil forever! our basil has started to yellow, and flower, so i clipped alot of it back and deflowered it, hoping it will grow back green. it took me two full days to accomplish the trimming....i managed to sew a bunch of simple skirts and tank dresses yesterday mid day :) we had a great dinner of fried okra, black eyed peas, and rice cooked in the solar oven.
today was a flea market day! so we biked over there, a great ride, and then walked around a super packed market! there were lots of venders, and i got some honey, avocados, and peppers, as well as some vintage sheets and table cloths and a super friends / super villains pillow case! i dont know what to do with that one! but they are way cool :) we biked back, and i listened to alan watts talk about zen and its history in china and then japan and how it is now moving from both those regions to the us. and about how goofy zen masters and buddist monks are - that the ridiculous is part of the dharma and design, that they are all "old bastards" in the most jovial way...i love alan watts
so then i worked on the basil again, and we washed crates of sweet potatoes - we have to dig the rest up before they get too big, so we had to make more room. and then lunch was left over polenta :) mmmmmmm
and then an hour or so of thinning a spinach bed, gonna have spinach this weekend to sell we think! i picked 2 pounds of green and purple beans, a bit of wax beans, and a full bag of winged green beans - super adorable beans! corey picked alot of okra!!
thank goodness tho deb and jon took alot of okra and calabasa to the food bank
oh no the dinner bell - pesto made from all our basil i harvested! YAY!
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 05:19 pm Busy Weekend


busy busy weekend and i am a bit drained today!!

i vended at a christian music and arts event on a lake in lakeland on saturday - it was 11-5 and it was really nice with interpretive dance and all :) it was farmer jons birthday so i can home to a great meal of greens and amazing cake consisting of carrots, pinneapple, and our calabasa pumpkins! mmmmm with cream cheese frosting.
so sunday corey and i spent selling veggies at the sweetwater sunday market. i sold that amazing purple dress pictured and even tho it was a bit slow, it was a good sunday with great music.
today i worked on pickling our cukes all morning - at least a gallon of dill and garlic pickles, whole and speared, as well as some sweet bread and butter pickles, which i have to finish and seal in the morning. then i worked in the garden picking at our bean plants, which are still infested but growing and producing yummy beans. i picked more cukes, a basket full of okra - we are swimming in it! and i picked waxed beans as well as winged beans, both producing a pretty well, even tho the waxed beans look like crap. i would like to water the purple and green beans with worm tea casting tonight, so i have to get motivated!
now i am off to list on etsy and send some emails. i have lots of cutting and sewing to do this week, and i also want to sand and paint some bird house guourds....hmmmmmm
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 02:21 pm Reconstructed dress Riverhawk
this is the sexy dress that is now sold, check it out on flickr...
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