Tim and I were talking at coffee the other morning, he brought up storm spotting and a class being taught up near the county line.

Hank writes:
I write. I fish. I dig earth, raise plants, live for food and kill wild animals. I drink bourbon, Barolo or Budweiser with equal relish and wish I owned a farm. But most of all I think daily about new ways to cook and eat anything that walks, flies, swims, crawls, skitters, jumps –
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There is nothing more fun for me than learning. And when I can’t learn from a person, reading a book or scanning the Internet is a great alternative. I think there are dozens of essential books for beginning small farmers.  Nothing replaces actual experience on the land, and the advice from more experienced
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Heritage turkeys are experiencing a renaissance on the small farm, buoyed by interest in local food, and media articles like this Thanksgiving New York Times ariticle:
“It’s a hot item,” said Bill Niman, a prominent advocate for sustainable agriculture who this year jumped into the so-called heritage turkey market — older breeds of birds that had
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Named for the heavy snows, it is also called the Hunger Moon.  It rises February 28.

The first chicken egg since December.

With the hoopla of the Super Bowl over, there is some commentary on the performance of The Who, playing their most popular songs, many of which also happen to be the theme songs of of the CBS shows in the CSI series. The most well known, perhaps, asks the question “Who Are You?”

Lou Ureneck blogged about his cabin building on the New York Times and has moved his blog to it’s new home at MaineCabinBlog.com coinciding with his completion and move in to the space. We’ve swapped emails from time to time during his building and I look forward to his notes, ideas, challenges, and sharing the world of a small cabin life. So, as I wrote earlier, what do you call a colleague / friend / email correspondent / blog buddy? “Neighbor” works well.

My Sunday mornings include listening to Lynne Rossetto Kasper and The Splendid Table®. Sunday’s episode included a discussion of “french chickens” sometimes called “Freedom Rangers” or “Colored Range” chickens – the chicken breed I grew this year.

The Old Moon or Wolf Moon occurs January 30, 2010.  Named for the time of year when wolf packs howled outside native American villages