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     Have you ever eaten farm fresh eggs?  I mean really fresh eggs- less than 24 hour old? 
    The yolk is firm – not runny like the ones you buy in the store, which typically are at least a week or two old by the time you get them.  Fresh yolks are a bright orange.   Fresh eggs [...]

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      Here’s a picture of me all decked out in my new green lederhosen  visiting Oma and Opa on the farm. 
        I remember riding in the  wooden  corn wagon, hanging on  for dear life .
        Here’s a clip off  utube that will give you a little idea:

      Aunt Annie  came for a visit from Germany.  She  wanted  a picture of  Doggie  (me)  [...]

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Photo of our rooster….. ”The Colonel“ 
     It was l dark as I  loaded  the back of my truck  with the  40 pound  crates of apples this morning . I kept thinking to myself…”Why am I doing this again? ???
It  can’t be for the money.    If that was the case, I would be way ahead to work a half a day [...]

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“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world”  
                                                                                       George Washington
        Today was a good day. 
      5:45 this morning, while it was still dark I was outside loading  wooden crates of Ginger Gold and Royal Court  apples to sell @ the  farmers market.  
     I woke up the rooster.  Normally he doesn’t start crowing until about [...]

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       Apple trivia:  Did you know that an apple will ripen 10 times faster at room temperature than in a frigerator?
      We have a bumper crop of apples this season.  Last night my son and I picked two cortland trees, each yielding about 7 crates of apples :

     Tonight I noticed the Suncrisp apples were [...]

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“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown [he or she] left behind.”
                                                                        Clementine Paddleford
 
       July has been a whirlwind of activity, hospitality and the  making  of memories. 
      My wife’s  6 siblings had a family [...]

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“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. “
Henry David Thoreau
    I like that quote  by Thoreau  where he talks about gardens, forests and outlaws, but I’m not  sure   what he was trying to say.  I’m serious.    Could one of you  translate that for me?
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Here [...]

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Perish-ability in a photograph is important in a picture.  If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.” 
~John Loengard, “Pictures Under Discussion
     I submitted three photos to our county conservation photo contest last week.   This is the second time in my life, when I decided to enter a photo [...]

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“Do you want to see a swarm of bees?” my wife asked me. 
    Paul and Deanne  pulled into our driveway last night around 7:30 PM.  They stopped to see if we’d  like to see the swarm  of honey bees Paul had spotted  on an old wood fence post.
      Here’s what we saw: 

This is a large cluster of [...]

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“If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.”
- Grandma Moses
 
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       We are ready!  A dozen baby chicks are headed our way  next week.  Here is where they will be staying:

Eventually we will  move them into a  ”chicken tractor”:
    
     A chicken tractor is a portable unit the chickens drive around the  farm yard so [...]

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