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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 11, 2010 16:07:24 GMT -5
OK, so now I have a beautiful pound cake cooling for the freezer. I'm working on the filling for pork and venison sausage pasties. One of my hens laid a 70 gm egg... YIKES! I'm thinking I should use it in a red velvet cake?
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Post by bunkie on Sept 12, 2010 15:39:55 GMT -5
drool...
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Post by plantsnobin on Sept 12, 2010 17:50:10 GMT -5
Sorry I haven't been on, internet troubles. And a rabbit show in Indianapolis this weekend. Luckily, we were able to stop by the Indiana Nut Growers meeting on our way home from Indy. Mike got to do what he wanted, I got to do what I wanted. I even got him to try a persimmon, he like it, Hey Mikey! Apparently the only one he had tried was when he was a kid, and he picked it off the tree. Anyway, as far as I know the schedule is this: meet at Alans at 10am to tour his place, go to Salem around noon to eat and take a look at the Old Settlers Festival. Then my place around 2pm, to swap stuff and eat around 4pm. I don't think there will be enough people attending to make the lamb a logical choice, we'll probably be eating pork loin for a week the way it is. But the people selling it are only about 10 miles from here if anyone would be interested in taking some home, I could get their number. I know that Kim has ordered doughnuts for the morning. Here is what I am planning to make-pork loin, potatoes, bean thing kinda like a stew, deviled eggs, potato salad, apple cake, and I'll have tea and lemonade. I will have all the table service we need, and I am renting chairs. Little kids are welcome, there is a basketball goal and a merry go round, and we have corn toss thingys. There is also a blow up water slide if it is hot, not big enough for big kids but ok for maybe up to 5 years or so. Got some horseshoes if I can find them. We are pretty low key sorts of people, so don't expect anything fancy and you won't be disappointed! My address is 2284 W US HWY 150, Paoli, IN 47454. My cell # is 812-797-3311. From Paoli square take 150 West, we are 2 miles from the square. You will pass a Bender Lumber, then a park on the left, a little Quaker church on the left, then an ugly trailer, our driveway is 2nd on left past the church, it is kind of hard to see. Be careful turning in because people try to pass as soon as they hit the straight stretch. If you miss it, there is a log building on the right where you can easily turn around. I'll have a sign out.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 12, 2010 19:31:04 GMT -5
There are 35 fresh Saxon brownies with pecans in the freezer and 8 venison/pork sausage pasties as well... Bunkie, think you could drool enough to slide to Indiana? ;o) Karen, are you talking about Saturday? Deviled eggs are a fav of mine! I've been wanting to try apple cake! oh man I'm SO hungry!!!
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Post by garnetmoth on Sept 12, 2010 21:40:36 GMT -5
Wow! Sounds awesome. Well, if you have the meat covered, should I bring a cornbread and a wheat bread? those would be easy to travel with.....
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Post by garnetmoth on Sept 12, 2010 21:41:56 GMT -5
oh and Jo- I have never raised a muscadine cutting. Ive got one one-year old muscadine that has survived so far and im training it up the side of the deck- how difficult are they?
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Post by blackthumbmary on Sept 12, 2010 22:49:46 GMT -5
Karen - the menu and activities sound wonderful! Wish I had horse shoes to spare but I don't since most of my horses go barefoot. The games sound fun...even for those of us grown up kids (I promise to stay off the blow up slide though). Deviled eggs sound scrumptious.....they are addictive. I will get the number of the lamb farmer from you at the swap....would be wonderful to have a local source for lamb. Don't worry about being fancy since as you know, I am in the sophisticated metropolis of Silverville...your neck of the woods is an upgrade.
Jo - the Seeder is yours...I love the idea of a Seeder for each kid! Besides, you deserve a treat for traveling all this way. Pound cake....oh no another weakness of mine. With all of this great food, we are going to have to rename this 'food and seed swap'. We might have to send out care packages to everyone who could not make it (like Bunkie).
Garnetmoth - Cornbread would be divine.....we just have to make sure that my husband does not eat it all.
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Post by Alan on Sept 12, 2010 23:02:53 GMT -5
Getting excited about the swap guys and really looking forward to it!
Not a lot going on at the farm at the moment, so don't get to excited, we've been in drought mode for quite a while now so most things are done growing for the year, none the less, you can come, look around and get a good idea of where we are headed with things anyhow.
Kim and I will have doughnuts and cofee here at the house. We will bring cornbread (from Amanda Palmer corn) and pasta salad to the get together. If horseshoes are needed I have some.
Of course I'll bring seeds and the such, I might have some useful junk laying around the farm here and there if anyone wants to squirrel some away with them.
Also, if you are interested we can stop by the farmers market on the way to old settlers days, it will probably be the best/only place for many of us to park anyhow and you might find something worth buying.
Directions to our house:
Directions: From Louisville Kentucky take I-65 North to exit 7 (Salem/Hamburg) Turn left onto hwy 60 to interesection of 111 and 60, turn right and continue on 60. Follow 60 for 18 miles which will bring you to Borden Indiana. Continue on 60 through Borden for five miles which will bring you to Pekin. We are located about a mile on the other side of Pekin. On your left will be a small service garage called Northside Automotive, on your right immediately afterword is a road called Powers road. Turn onto powers and hang an immediate left into the driveway that runs paralell to the railraod (between the railroad and the hwy). Follow the driveway around the white house on the corner and all the way to the back (about a quarter mile), we are the last house on top of the hill. You should see greenhouses and turkeys running around. If you need any help finding us, call 812-967-2073.
From Indianapolis Indiana:
I-70 E toward I-65/COLUMBUS OH
Merge onto I-65 S via EXIT 80 toward Lousiville ... Take the IN-56 W exit, EXIT 29B, turn right toward Salem
Follow to intersection of 56/60 in Salem, turn left and follow around Salem town square (1/2 way around) and exit square. Come to Intersection of 60 and 135, turn left onto 60 follow for about eight miles.
Drive is on the left directly before Northside Automotive Garge on the right side of 60. Turn onto powers road and immediately turn left into the driveway that runs parallel to the railroad tracks (in between the tracks and the hw). Follow the driveway around the white house on the corner and all the way to the back (about a quarter mile), we are the last house on top of the hill. You should see greenhouses and turkeys running around. If you need any help finding us, call 812-967-2073.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 13, 2010 5:23:51 GMT -5
wow... Things is racking up now! I was just on the phone with my partner in arms who is in Germany. She asked me what we were going to do and at first I'm thinking, "Oh no! All we are going to do is EAT!" But then I started up the mental inventory:
1. Butterfly gardening - This is going to be one of the most important things for us to learn about because beyond the butterflies, it will also allow us to extend the nectar flow season for our bees.
2. Worm farming - We need to be doing this as an income source as well as a soil enhancement substance.
3. Poultry and Rabbits - Now that we have a season with the chickens and guineas under our belt, we are at a next level of "need to know". We need to prepare for winter (though I think ours is somewhat milder than yours, still you've been doing it longer). With the bunnies, we are planning to add bunnies to our scheme next spring. Now that it's in the wind to do it, we can be more critically observant of your processes. I've always made a point of checking out the livestock at state and county fairs... It's going to be so different checking them out this year because I'll have such a different point of view now.
4. What is it like in Indiana? - Indiana is a foreign land to us. We've lived on or near the coast all our lives. I've been inland only once and that was a bus ride from New York to California when I was 19. I kinda don't think it really counts.
5. Coming together as a concerned group of people. Everyone of us has a different focus on our activities yet everyone of us has the commonality of a love and respect for our planet and how to give to her so that we can receive the best of what she has to offer us.
6. I really hope that we can figure out a way to send out to those who won't be with us. I'm bringing the seeds and things that I have gathered so far as well as my list of requests. I'll be checking on the progress of the local kudzu before we leave as well. I don't think it's quite ready yet though. Anyway, I'll also bring envelopes and other packaging material so that we can collaborate and mail as many of our seed trades as possible. We haven't talked about this aspect of the Gather previously, so this might not end up being a viable process this time. On the other hand, it might help us out some.
This is going to be a blast! OH, nearly forgot!!
7. WINE TASTING! We are bringing home brew. Can't drink coffee ALL the time! ;o)
8. MUSIC! - I love to sing. Can't carry a tune with a bucket, but I love to sing! I don't mind dancing either. As long as no one laughs to hard when I fall down. If there is room in the car, we will bring a drum, cymbals, and a tambourine.
Are we gonna start planning next year's Gather? I saw something about Cooperstown NY for next year?
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 13, 2010 5:37:30 GMT -5
oh and Jo- I have never raised a muscadine cutting. Ive got one one-year old muscadine that has survived so far and im training it up the side of the deck- how difficult are they? Ours are 3 years old. We need to train them a bit better than we have been. There is some issue with male/female plants. I really can't elaborate beyond that I'm afraid. But we have 2 female plants and 1 male. I'll bring cuttings from all three. Plant A produced a few large fruit which ripened early August. Plant B produced a ton of small fruit which are ripening now. Plant C produced a very few large fruit which also ripened in early August. They are all bronze. Here is an article from the California Rare Fruit Grower's website: www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/muscadinegrape.htmlI'll also have some concord grape cuttings. I've noticed that the Jap beetles are all over the concord but they don't get nearly as interested in the muscadines. I also noticed that the beetles were not as overwhelming this year and I wonder if I owe thanks for that to our sweet guineas?
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Post by plantsnobin on Sept 13, 2010 7:53:56 GMT -5
I should also tell you that there is a square in Salem, and a square in Paoli. They operate differently-in Salem, every other quarter has to yield to come onto the square, in Paoli, all four oncoming have to yield to the traffic going around the square. Sounds confusing, but just pay attention to the yield signs and you'll be ok. Alan, I had in my notes to talk to you about using some of your corn meal to make cornbread, so glad that is what you had in mind too!!! And folks, we haven't had rain here since I really don't remember, so everything is dried to a crisp. My flowers are done. It's ugly.
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Post by garnetmoth on Sept 13, 2010 8:20:50 GMT -5
Just reading my Facebook today, and saw this kitchengardeners.org/blogs/salma/special-thanks-glenn-fletcher#comment-2524 If we have extra "common" seeds, maybe they can go here? I had a great seed saving year last year and send a big batch to Winter Sown, and did a big giveaway at Homesteading Today- I am a relative newbie at unusual plants and dont feel I have a bunch that you here dont already know about! Id also like to know how smaller operations clean their seed! I hand-picked the lettuce seed and was real patient with it this year (but had maybe 1 TBSP) last year I had a bunch but smooshed it all up and it was so chaffy..... Mine wont be as amazing as Alans, but ill make up bulk for cornbread!
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 13, 2010 19:21:24 GMT -5
No cooking today... I need citric acid though...
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Post by flowerpower on Sept 14, 2010 6:42:08 GMT -5
Are we gonna start planning next year's Gather? I saw something about Cooperstown NY for next year? I did say that maybe we could do it in Cooperstown next yr. I hope everyone has an awesome time out in Indiana. :=) Have a safe and fun weekend.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Sept 14, 2010 9:19:57 GMT -5
Are we gonna start planning next year's Gather? I saw something about Cooperstown NY for next year? I did say that maybe we could do it in Cooperstown next yr. That's what I thought! Some of us are just suckers for a good time. By the way... completely sorta off topic here... has anyone ever read Anne Mcaffrey's "PERN" series? MODIFICATION: Just pulled a pear jack cake out of the oven.... ummm... sure does smell good!
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