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Some recent bakes from the #rm2020 oven: country l

Some recent bakes from the #rm2020 oven: country loaves, Asiago and tomato loaves, and apple pie loaves. Great fun baking with this gorgeous oven designed by @campbell2664

Game changing week as my new RackMaster 2020 oven

Game changing week as my new RackMaster 2020 oven arrived. This will save me so much baking time and I can’t wait to experiment with bagels, pan loaves, and more.

Late summer blooms from the farm

Late summer blooms from the farm

A low key affair is lacto fermenting cucumbers. A

A low key affair is lacto fermenting cucumbers. A nice crock (thanks @smoratto and @morattojames) and then you load up cucumbers, hops, black pepper, garlic, juniper berries, and bay leaves. Top all of that off with brine and then cover with horseradish leaves (which can be longer than your arm, did you know?). Let it alone for a week or so, just ensuring everything stays under the brine. Let it pickle until the taste suits you and then use as you choose to!

Scenes from around the farm. Lots of cukes and zuk

Scenes from around the farm. Lots of cukes and zukes. A good haul of potatoes. Every sunflower with a pollinator partner. A sea of pigeon peas abuzz with bumble bees. What’s the allure of a yard that looks like a ping pong table when you can have nature alive all around you?

Made a bit of progress in making the Bee House tin

Made a bit of progress in making the Bee House tiny house a bit more welcoming and practical. I built some shelves for storage and Chris taught me how to make them floating shelves. They fit nicely behind the door. • Looking forward to a repeat visitor this weekend, a dear friend who has dubbed this the Peace Portal, and I adore the name almost as much as the namer • Just a reminder: if you are relatively nearby and want to spend a night in our little getaway, just reach out to me. We are looking to add a bit of peace and nature to the world of our friends.

Three different grilled patties. Local beef from @

Three different grilled patties. Local beef from @southelmfarm; beet, quinoa, white bean, egg, goat cheese; @harbormushroomco trumpet mushroom, quinoa, chard, bell pepper, white beans, egg, ginger, garlic. Toasted homemade buns. The burger is topped with onion, tomato, and @oldbklynmustards IPA mustard. All cooked on the grill over hardwood charcoal and the vegetable patties were griddled on a @lodgecastiron pizza pan.

I wandered into a local antiques shop on a whim a

I wandered into a local antiques shop on a whim a month ago and found that they had a lot of records for sale. In between the Engelbert Humperdinck and Paul Anka records I found some real gems. And you can see that the prices were crazy low. The kind, elderly woman hand wrote the receipt in painstaking fashion and I love it as much as the tunes I have been enjoying.

Stumbled upon a homesteader’s heaven today: Joug

Stumbled upon a homesteader’s heaven today: Joughin Hardware store in Painesville. It’s been open since 1877! It has three floors of everything! It has a HUGE Carhartt section! They sell everything from antique tools to toothpaste. Check out the old ax and scroll saw. And they have Case knives from PA, so I had to get a pocket knife. What a great place!

A handful of chicks joined the farm this week. Jus

A handful of chicks joined the farm this week. Just because I wanted some baby chicks around. Bantams and golden wyandottes.

I grew up on a farm where we dried our clothes on

I grew up on a farm where we dried our clothes on a clothesline 10 months out of the year. But I’ve been a slacker about getting one set up here. I was going to set posts in concrete and set up a line for us but then discovered this retractable gem from @honeycando and it’s fab. It extends up to 34 feet and is easily mounted with four bolts. Could be used indoors or outside. Stout is a fan. (This is not an ad or an influencer post; I’m just happy with this product). Using the sun and breeze to dry our clothes not only saves electricity and money, the clothes also smell better.

One of the best things you can eat this time of ye

One of the best things you can eat this time of year: basil atop peaches atop butter atop sourdough. If you are so inclined, a drizzle of balsamic. It’s perfect.

One of the parts of beekeeping I enjoy most is bui

One of the parts of beekeeping I enjoy most is building hive bodies and frames. Here are the steps I follow to build frames: gluing and nailing the wood frame pieces together and inserting the wax-coated foundation that the bees then build honeycomb on and fill with honey • Reminder: bees do not make and store honey for humans. They make it and store it for themselves to survive the winter! Humans harvest it from hives. It’s imperative that beekeepers do not take too much honey, else the bees will have inadequate food stores for the winter months.

Hollyhocks are one of my favorite plants. A bienni

Hollyhocks are one of my favorite plants. A biennial, they self seed readily. The one growing out of our porch has been there for a few years now!

Happy 15th birthday to this sweet and quirky girl.

Happy 15th birthday to this sweet and quirky girl. Tasha has been part of my family since 2009 and was a stabilizing soul for me when I went through a tough time in life. • Her secrets to longevity appear to be avoiding corn, never getting her feet wet, eating a paleo diet, and being awake when everyone else is sleeping.

Vacation time for me, both from corp America work

Vacation time for me, both from corp America work and social media. If you need to get in touch, text me if you have my cell or there is a contact form on my website at flanneldogfarm.com • Off to live a non-digital life for a bit.

I’m telling you, pickled beets atop avocado, chi

I’m telling you, pickled beets atop avocado, chili flake, olive oil, and sourdough is the move. Country-fied avocado toast! The acid and sweet of the pickled beets cuts just the right way through the fat of the avocado and the crumb of the bread. • Thank you to @davis__amanda and social-media-free Jon for the exceptional beets!

Had some fun with an enriched dough today, making

Had some fun with an enriched dough today, making a cinnamon raisin bread without sugar (I used honey from the farm instead). This dough was lovely to work with, loaded with eggs, butter, olive oil, and raw honey. Inspired by @alchemybread’s recipe in her awesome book, Bread Baking for Beginners (which has so many important lessons for those who are beyond beginners).

Well, Chris and I did a thing. We happened upon th

Well, Chris and I did a thing. We happened upon this gorgeous covered wagon for sale at a nearby homestead and we had to have it! We’ve long coveted the tiny houses in the UK that are built on covered wagons, and when we saw this baby, well, it was a rare impulse buy for us. • Still to be determined on what we do with it: sure looks like a fun thing to pull behind the tractor with friends and beer in the back, or a good ride around the block for kids visiting, or making it bug-proof and part of our tiny cabins for folks to visit. Who knows? But it’s damned legit and we love it.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Moms out there!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Moms out there! My Mom loved to laugh and these two pictures capture that emotion so well, one with my niece @calandraann many moons ago! It’s hard to believe my Mom has been gone for over 15 years; I think about her many times every day and can hear her laugh, her singing, her worry, and her love. • Spread love and kindness wherever you go, my friends. Life is short, but how you make others feel is infinite.

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