Rhubarb

Rhubarb

Rhubarb is the first fruit of the season to work with, also a delight to begin the canning and wine making for the summer.

Fresh Rhubarb



Rhubarb Wine

5 pounds rhubarb
1 1/2 gallons boiling water
1 cup raisins
3 pounds brown sugar
3 oranges sliced
3 lemons sliced
1 tblsp. active yeast

Chop all rhubarb and put into a crockpot. Add the boiling water and let it sit for 3 days covered.
Filter the liquid, and to that add chopped raisins, fruits and sugar. Add the yeast and stir well. Cover the pot again and leave in a warm area for 30 days to ferment. Give the mix a stir daily.
Filter the mixture again and pour into well sterilized bottles and keep in a cool area.
The wine will taste the best the longer it is allowed to age.

This will now stand fermenting for 30days....

Rhubarb Jam
2 1/2 lb Rhubarb
1 1/2 lb Sugar
1/2 c Water
2 ea Orange, rind & juice of

Wash and skin the rhubarb and cut into small pieces; add sugar and 1/2 cup of cold water. Grate the rind of the oranges and add to the rhubarb. Add the orange juice and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.

Smoked Salmon

Smoked and Candied Salmon



The farmer made a batch of smoked salmon and candied salmon. The candied salmon was gone before I could take a picture...you could say they ate it up like candy :)

Dry Brine
4 Cups Brown Sugar
1 Cup Rock or Kosher Salt
Mix and multipy relative to the amount of salmon

Place serving size pieces of salmon, skin side down on the bottom of a plastic bucket and spinkle enough of the dry brine mix to just cover the flesh of the salmon.

Continue to layer salmon in the bucket, again, skin side down, and apply the brine mix to each layer until all of the salmon is in the bucket.

This is candied is for Candied Salmon

Store in cool area (40-60 degrees) for 10 hours.

Pour in a container of apple juice

Allow the salmon to air dry for at least overnight. The longer the fish sits on the smoker rack, drying, the deeper the "glaze" or colour of the final product.

Glaze the salmon with a mixture of apple juice and brown sugar.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

This one is for Mikey... a recent collection of pictures of the animals on the farm. Enjoy!

These Ducklings are only hours old.

Ridic and his dinner.

Wellsummers are getting along good with the other hens.

Speckled Bantam Rooster "Peanutbutter".

Kumi having an afternoon nap.

Black Bob and The Drake, these two male ducks are forced to hang out together because all of the girls are on nests.

A Duck Nest Tanya's Brood 4 weeks old.

Turkey Hen "Phylis aka Mama" on a nest of eggs. Millie is also on a nest...it is hidden from us.

Thomas, our tom turkey.

Ridic, the hunter

Bantam chicks enjoying some squash.

Kumi thought she might be missing out on a treat...or she thinks she is a chicken?

Red Rock Rooster "DRock"

Red Rock Hen "Ethel" she has a twisted toe and is missing some feathers. She only looks mean...she is a sweet heart.

More of Tanya's Brood

Chanteclere Rooster "Foghorn" crowingChickens enjoying papaya....a treat.

Cocoa on her nest...

Well you made it to the end of the collection of animal pictures and brief descriptions. Now is your turn. Have a look at the last two pictures. What kind of bird is that and what do you think it is running with? Tell the story of the two pictures.