off the map

A blog about our hobby farm on 8 acres, our desire to live off the land and off the map, fresh food, making homemade items and our three cats and eleven chickens.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Chicks update: 3 weeks old

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Right by mom Our little chicks are three weeks old this week.  Hard to believe that July has gone by so fast.  They aren't the cute...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Lemon slice coasters

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When I saw these on The Purl Bee I had to make them.  So cute.  And I have a set of lemon and lime slice salt and pepper shakers that di...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

All You Need Is Love card

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Wow, we know a couple celebrating their silver anniversary this week!  That's pretty amazing.   We'll be celebrating three years ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Tomato Egg Sandwich

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Best way to enjoy our first slicer this summer?  Tomato egg sandwich with a Brandywine from the garden, an egg from our chickens and home...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Mystery Tomato

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We have a mystery tomato plant in our garden!  We planted three variates of tomatoes this year: Brandywine, Lemon Drop Cherry, and Amish ...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Peaches, blackberries and relish, oh my!

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Did I say lazy weekend?  I spoke too soon.  We stopped at a roadside market just south of where we live and picked up 1/2 bushel of South...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Happy birthday chicks!

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Our chicks turned 1 week old today.  All five are doing well and growing daily!  They are really starting to get some color in their feat...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Garden fresh salsa

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What's better then a lazy weekend?  A lazy weekend with homemade salsa. We made a nice salsa with ingredients from our garden: cher...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The great egg experiment: Day 21

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We have chicks!  After 21 days of patently waiting we heard our first peep-peeps from the nesting box the day before the 4th of July.  I w...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Garden progress: June

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It's really amazing how fast our garden grew in June.  So far we have had two large cucumbers, an eggplant, handfuls of lemondrop cherr...
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