[Ag-eq] Catching Up

Tue Oct 9 03:42:44 UTC 2012

Susan:

I'm so sorry to hear that your having helth issues.  I hope you are lots better
real soon.

Do Honey Crisp apples grow in your area?

They are one of my favorite kinds.  I like Pink Ladies too.  I think all the
apples here are shipped in from other states; Arizona isn't very apple
friendly!  We can grow good citris here, which will be ready soon.

Sorry to hear about your garden.  My parents live in Arkansas and they had an
unusually hot summer.  Mom said she got very little from the garden even though
she was watering.  She also said the deer ate lots of stuff.  I think it was so
dry they were just eating what ever they could.

Do you can with a pressure cooker?

I would like to learn to can, but the pressure cooker makes me nervous.  My
Grandmother used to do a lot of canning and my Mom still does some.  I used to
help them, but mostly I filled and washed jars.  I have small hands that can
fit in the jars, so I had to wash lots of them!

If you have any tips for canning when blind I would love to hear them.  I am a
good cook and comfortable handling hot things, just not sure about the pressure
cooker.  Maybe they are different now.

One of the chickens dug out of my run and was killed by a neighbor dog, so
checking the coops is a good idea.  There's always something to do!

I'm looking for a buck to breed one of my dairy goats to.  She's just finishing
her heat cycle, so I need to find one soon.  Maybe next year I will breed one
of this years babies.  One of them has beautiful markings.

Take care of yourself and please stay in touch.

Nella

Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:

> Hi Jody,
>
> Well, considering I came home from the hospital tonight (Monday night) at
> 6:30 after going to the emergency room Saturday morning with another onset
> of blood clots in my lungs, I am doing pretty good.  We haven't gotten the
> already pregnant dairy goat yet.  I'm trying to hold my husband back until
> November 2013 because we don't have the milking area ready in the barn and I
> want it finished before we buy the female.  Give Homer another year to get
> settled with a routine of being tethered once a day for extra forage so we
> don't have to cut so much for him in the winter.  Then wehn we go to put
> both of them out, it might help the female if she can tell that Homer is not
> skiddish along with her.
>
> This fall, we're going to strip all of my chicken coops, checking for places
> where the chickens have been scratching a bit too eagerly to get up under
> their coops and for places where our farel cat population has been digging
> to get under the coops from the other side.  One day, they are going to meet
> in the middle underneath the coop and only one is going to come out the
> victor!  LOL
>
> We had our garden wiped out this year due to a bad storm that came the end
> of June and took our power for 7 days and we could not water whatsoever and
> our temps were in the low 100's.  But, luckily enough, we have a real nice
> small produce stand just up the road that took up where our garden left off.
> Matt purchased a half bushel peaches and Honey Crisp apples, so my sister
> and I made peach preserves peach chutney and 4 quarts of dried apple slices.
> We also dried two pints of banana slices.  I'm going to dry a few other
> fruits and then we are going to make our own trail mix.  The end of October,
> I am going to get a bushal of Pink Lady apples and we are going to do apple
> chutney, more apple butter, and maybe some spiced apples as well.  Matt is
> in Seattle visiting his brother and also doing some canning and pickeling
> with him as well.  They tried some apple and green tomato chutney and I'm
> wondering how that is going to turn out.
>
> There is a man who lives behind us who owns a large truck farming business
> and rents most of the properties he farms.  They have one of our fields,
> growing tomatoes last year and winter squashes this year.  He called while I
> was in the hospital to let me know he had several kinds of greens and
> turnips he was starting to cut and if we wanted any just to let him know
> when we wanted to come and get some.  I told him as soon as Matt came back
> home he would probably be there Sunday afternoon.   They are really good
> people.  They have kept our long driveway covered with gravel as parcial
> payment for using one of our fields.
>
> Gotta go for now, my own bed looks way more inviting than the hospital bed I
> was in for the past two nights.  I can hear it calling, "nighty night".  LOL
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
> To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Catching Up
>
>
> > Hi susan,
> >
> > Good to hear from you too.  That is a good idea to just as peet a little
> > at
> > a time.
> >
> > How have you been?
> >
> > JODY
> >
> >
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