Bachelor Homesteader

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Mark Zeiger

Today Michelle’s moving out of the homestead for a while. Except for a couple of weekends, she’ll spend the next three weeks chaperoning friends’ children in town. We call it “chaperoning,” because at their age “babysitting” just doesn’t apply. She’s done it before. The difference this year is that this time Aly’s away at college. It’ll also be a lot longer than last time. Continue reading →

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Playing with My Food

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Mark Zeiger

Our parents always told us “don’t play with your food.” Yeah, well, I’m over 50 now, and I’ll play with my food when I want to. Particularly if that food is a pumpkin.

With Halloween upon us tomorrow night, we’ll definitely need a pumpkin pie. With Michelle’s imminent departure the next day, I’d need some good, quick, simple meals. Slabs of baked pumpkin fit that bill nicely. So, it made sense to butcher at least one of the pumpkins currently around the homestead.

We have five. Two of them we raised in our garden—not in the greenhouse, but outside.

homestead pumpkins 2011

A store bought Jack o' lantern flanked by our own homestead-grown pumpkins (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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