Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on some posts from last month, here’s a quick digest of the most-read posts that you may want to check out:
Bottling beer the easy way
Posted on Thursday, December 11th, 2008 in Brewing and winemaking
So we bottled the beer last night – only a week behind schedule. I’m blaming the cold weather. We lined up our 27 freshly-sterilised bottles on the worktop, opened the bag of caps we’d ordered on Monday and spread out a towel. Not that we thought we’d need it.Last time we bottled the beer it went everywhere. We made the mistake of putting the fermenter up on the worktop and the bottles on the floor.
Techno chicken
Posted on Sunday, December 7th, 2008 in Keeping chickens
I bet this is what the chickens get up to when the coop is shut up at night.
The chickens’ progress
Posted on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 in Keeping chickens
As the weather turns (much) colder, the chickens are eating far more. It took them ages to get through their first 20kg bag of layers’ pellets, but they’ve eaten this second sack in double-quick time.That throws all of our egg price calculations out of the coop. We had worked them out at about 5p each, and while they’ve not doubled and are still cheaper than the supermarket by an order of magnitude, they’re probably 30% more expensive than they were in the summer.
Christmas hampers
Posted on Thursday, December 25th, 2008 in General
We snuck out early this morning, before anyone else’s lights were on, and delivered four hampers of home-made gifts to the neighbours’ doorsteps. In each one we’d packed a bottle of home-made wine and a pint of home-made beer, a box of four eggs from the chickens, a jar of tomato chutney, another of apple chutney and a jar of apple jelly.
Pulling the first carrots
Posted on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 in Growing food
We should have started eating our carrots by now, but as we’ve not grown any broccoli or sprouts this year we wanted to have something home-grown to serve up at Christmas, and carrots it was. So we’ve kept them in the ground, so far.It’s getting late in the season to have not started eating them yet, and as it’s a bit risky not testing them until the big day we forked up the first few today to see how they’ve faired.
If you enjoy the content on this site, please make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.
Related posts:
