Comments for An Imaginary Farmer

Comment on Planting From Seed by Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:04:45 +0000

I’m glad to be back at the blog too! The bees are doing really well. We will be taking the honey off in the next week or so. Last I checked them my three hives were very strong and were producing very well.

Comment on Planting From Seed by Anja

Anja — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:29:00 +0000

I’m glad you’re blogging again. I’ve been reading your posts since last year–our families have a lot of the same interests, namely self-sufficiency. How are the bees doing?

Comment on Our New Milker Sucks… Really Well by Sharon Obrien-Lykins

Sharon Obrien-Lykins — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:03:53 +0000

We have a surge but with longer hoses that we can see through so that we can set it on the ground while milking. We also have individual shut off valves attached to the base of each pulsator so when one quarter stops milking, we can keep the rest going without straining the empty one. We love our surge milker. At first I got tired of cleaning it but now I don’t mind… just part of the 2x a day routine. Much better than hand milking (for us).

Comment on Caramel Apples by Jamie Brocco

Jamie Brocco — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:56:50 +0000

They look REALLY GOOD. I wish we lived closer . . .

If you want to try a red apple, I suggest Fireside, Wolf River, Cortland, or Macintosh (MacFree, etc). They tend to be more crisp. We have been sampling from our local farmers market!

Thank You for sharing the recipe. We’ll have to try it.

Comment on The Littlest Farmhand by Tianna

Tianna — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:55:09 +0000

It sure does sound better than Liam Wendy McNees, but I’m still not sure it sounded better than Liam Tianna…. j/k He’s so cute! tell mom not to get him a Halloween costume, unless she already did.

Comment on The Littlest Farmhand by wendy

wendy — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:18:09 +0000

He is such a cute farmhand!! I love that you used your name for his middle name. Does sound better than Liam Wendy McNees ….. I guess.

Comment on Our New Milker Sucks… Really Well by Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:05:26 +0000

Cool contraption! I am swearing off of milk though, due to your description of hair, mosquitoes and ‘bits’ falling in milk. I’m going to visualize this episode everytime I pour out milk. I will get my calcium from ice cream now (don’t point out the obvious to me, okay?)

Love Ya!

Comment on Green Tomato Fill-in-the-Blank by Jamie Brocco

Jamie Brocco — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:28:19 +0000

Thank You for sharing your green tomato ideas. I’ll have to try some of these next year. Usually, I put our green tomatoes in a large paper bag (from the store) and fold down the top. As long as a least some of the tomatoes are already ripening, the rest do too. I’ve heard that you can speed up the process by putting a ripe apple inside too. I check it every other day or so and usually use them up in lasagna or spaghetti sauce.

Comment on Johnny Appleseed by Jamie Brocco

Jamie Brocco — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:52:41 +0000

We like drying the applesauce (with no sugar added) in our dehydrator to make fruit roll-ups. Yummy!

Comment on Spam, Bacon, Sausage and Spam by Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:19:28 +0000

I agree with you! Living closer to the land gives you a much deeper appreciation for life. We make decisions differently because of it. We try to have less waste, and there is more caring and feeling of responsibility to our animals because of the stewardship that we have. I sometimes wonder how it is that our society has come to the point where it is disgusted to think that the food we are eating, was not too long ago, the healthy animal that we spent time raising. A separation from the land probably is the cause.