A Change of Plans

We have decided to take a different approach to gardening.  I have pulled inspiration from Thomas Jefferson’s garden at Monticello.  We are trying to eliminate plastic mulching and tractors without killing ourselves.  Stay tuned to see how things develop.  We are very excited.

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Checklists

Since attempting to raise vegetables and pigs my daily checklists have changed a bit.
Fish Carcasses (tomatoes)
Egg Shells (tomatoes)
aspirin (tomatoes)
Bone Meal (tomatoes)
Lime (tomatoes)
organic fertilizer (tomatoes)
4 gallons sour milk (pigs)
2 gallons sour heavy cream (pigs)
2 large lexans of kitchen scrap (pigs)
water (me)
slim jims (me)
 
if you are curious about all the strange things for the tomatoes check out this [...]

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Peaches and Cream

The peach is compressed and then bruleed.  We serve it with a brown butter crumble and honey-mascorpone cream….

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Jimmy Red

This has been an incredible project on many different levels.  This corn is from James Island, here in Charleston.  Jimmy Red Corn is nearly extinct.  Thanks to Ted Chewning for keeping this strain alive, he was nice enough to share some seeds with us this year. We ended up growing 1600 feet of Jimmy Red for seed.  [...]

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Milk-Fed

my piggies love milk.

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The Dinner with Aki and Alex

 
http://www.ideasinfood.com/ideas_in_food/2008/07/photos-of-mccradys.html
here is a link to some pics from the dinner with the guys from ideasinfood..
what a great night, thanks to all that made it possible

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