HSF Education: Fall Homeschool Class Week 8

This week we spent our outside time putting many of the garden beds to bed and covering them up so they would be ready for spring planting. Though it is not exciting work with many people is goes quickly and it let us get to the exciting part of our day: homemade breakfast tacos.

We made the tortillas from scratch - soaking and grinding the corn, pressing the tortillas and cooking them on a hot skillet. We filled our tacos with diced potato, a duck egg scramble and spicy greens harvested from under row cover in the garden.

HSF Education: Fall Homeschool Class Week 7

The October snow reminds us that winter will freeze the ground soon and it’s time to bring the animals a little closer to the farm.  We started the day moving the portable fences to storage, which will get stuck in the ground if not tended to. This was a good opportunity to observe all the pig tracks in the mud and how Bumble and Bee really excavate an entire area for delicious treats on the ground! 

Our wool from last week is ready to be processed. Before we could bring it inside to wash it we needed to skirt it, we have to removed any debris in the wool and remove parts of the wool that are not useful for products. When we got inside there was a fire roaring in the wood stove and it was time to wash the wool. Wool washing is a very interesting and delicate process - you have to be careful not to agitate the wool or you will felt it! Call us overachievers, but alongside the washing, we made time for a homemade caponata and breadmaking.  Still lots to do this time of year!