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Category Archives: 2020 Harvest
Succulents
Posted in 2020 Harvest, Garden at Home, Main Menu
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Tagged aloe vera, hens and chicks, Succulents
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Garlic and Cover
The garlic looks like every clove came up and will turn into a beautiful bulb in late June! Bill went over the rest of the back garden bed with a disk and I planted it with a cover crop mix … Continue reading →
Bread Lab – Round 2
Yesterday I worked on a recipe that is a little less challenging than the wild yeast sourdough that I usually make with our flour. I started with a recipe from my favorite Williams-Sonoma baking book and made an adjustment to … Continue reading →
Grinding wheat this morning
I’ve been baking more bread than usual while we have been staying home so had used all of our flour. So, this morning we brought the stone grinder out for grinding some of our Turkey Red wheat into flour. We … Continue reading →
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Tagged hand made goat milk soap, heirloom Turkey Red wheat, make bread, raw comb honey, raw local honey, stone ground grain
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Greenhouse Life
We have been working hard to get our seeds started and growing for your eating and gardening pleasure. The greenhouse is bursting at the seams! We will have our usual selection (plus a few new varieties) of heirloom tomatoes, sweet … Continue reading →
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Tagged heirloom tomatoes organic, organic transplants
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Goat Milk Soap
Here is what the CDC says about soap for hand washing: Regular soap and water clean germs away rather than killing them, but that’s still a key step in reducing infection, the CDC points out. Washing your hands with soap and water is one … Continue reading →
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Tagged local hand made goat milk soap, local raw honey
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First signs of Spring
We will have Herb Planters again this year and have a couple of new additions – sage and chocolate mint!
Seed starting Time!
The greenhouse is cleaned and organized, the seeds, organic soil and Fertil Pots are here and we will soon be in Full Seed Starting mode!
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Tagged heirloom eggplant, heirloom peppers, heirloom tomatoes, organic transplants
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Creekside winter products
Even though our farmstand is closed for the winter, we still have some of our products available for pick-up at our farm. Please contact us ahead of coming out pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com 815-467-5259 or message us through Facebook Ask us what scents … Continue reading →
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Tagged hand made lotion cream body butter, local hand made goat milk soap, local raw honey, raw comb honey
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Surprise chore
Today’s surprise chore was adding fencing over the baby chicks. Yesterday we found 4 dead and a Coopers hawk in the barn. It was a pretty big job but we had some fencing that was donated last fall and prefer … Continue reading →
Spring Soap
First batch of soap for 2020 is Lilac. Local goat milk, olive oil, coconut oil, tallow, shea butter, castor … Continue reading →
Whipped salve
This morning’s salve trial. I used calendula infused olive oil, comfrey infused coconut oil, cocoa butter, beeswax, vitamin E oil and lavender and rosemary EO’s I whipped it as it cooled because I prefer the texture. It doesn’t feel as … Continue reading →