Missing Willow Farm

Today’s agenda includes making cheese & creme fraiche, steaming lobster for tomorrow’s breakfast, roasting tomatoes, curing fresh salmon, finishing off a batch of fig preserves, and Brian is making a frozen key lime pie.  That’s a broccoli quiche from our freezer for dinner tonight. I think we’ll be tired of the kitchen by dinner time!

I purchased a tiny fig tree at a garden club sale four months ago.  It was about 3 inches high.  It’s now over 2 feet tall and has figs on it.  Wow!  We’ll overwinter it in the greenhouse.  Roasted figs and goat cheese anyone?

I hope it was tasty.  Stupid bunny.

Actually, quite a lot.  More than half a gallon.

It’s all about cherry tomatoes and hot peppers these days.  It sure makes for a gorgeous display.

We do an annual farm/garden/winery tour with friends every August.  This weekend’s farm tour included piggies, cattle, turkeys and ducks.  I officially want ducks.

We’ve got them growing on the deck and in the garden.  When it gets cold out we’ll move them into the greenhouse, which should give us a jump on next year’s crop.

is that we finally got apples from the trees we planted in 2005.  The bad news is these are all the deer left us.  I think we need to be spraying them with some nasty chemicals or something and fortressing the trees if we want edible fruit.  In related news, we have pears about 30 feet off the ground that the deer couldn’t reach.  Luckily, we have a ladder.

A James Beard award winning food writer wrote that the roast lamb that Brian prepared on Saturday was the best he has ever had.  Way to rock it in a pasture full of amazing chefs, Brian!

http://www.vice.com/read/lambstock-leaves-me-weak