New Items at the Warehouse!

June 15, 2010

I am coming to the warehouse today with some items from my organic garden. Did

you know that herbs are not only delicious, but are good for you too?

I will have packages of freshly picked this morning, organic dill, washed only

by the recent rains. I am selling these packages for only $1 to make them

affordable, but they are generous enough for more than one dish. Dill also keeps

fairly well for a few days.

This dill is delicious with cooked carrots or potatoes, in potato salad, mixed

with ground meat and baked in dough (piroshkis) or paired with Alvin's eggs in

egg salad!

Also, one of my favorite recipes from my Russian friend is cabbage salad. You

shred some cabbage, as finely as you want, smush it and let it sit out and start

to ferment a bit. Then you add lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, sea salt and lots

of fresh dill. This is the taste of summer on a fork!

If I have time, I will package up some mint that is good for tea, with lamb or

peas, or in your juleps!

I will also bring some potted herbs- catnip, chives, and Greek oregano for $2

each.

And lastly, Pat, I will finally be dropping off your new aloe starts. One little

plant and two babies. They don't look good now, as they hate being transplanted,

but hang in there, with some neglect, they will soon be thriving!

Kathy

Niflis BSN, RN

Natural Health Educator

Optimal Health Connection

Woodbury, MN

June 15, 2010

Great timing Kathy! I just got back from delivering some birds to

Brainerd for processing. And then I singed myself on one of the

incubators while turning eggs. Next week, not sure what day, I will be

bringing the 4 turkeys, 2 chickens and 3 rabbits down to the Warehouse.

I will also be bringing mustards, soups and possibly some pheasant and

blue chicken eggs down plus whatever else I can pack into 's car. I

keep trying to find the time to make soap but it seems like there is a

new " must do " every day. Witness today's " you can bring the birds down

today or the next opening is in 3 weeks. " ! Plus, I am still working out

on 2 part-time jobs.

It has been raining here so much that if the puddle on the driveway gets

any bigger, I'm going to name it and stock it with fish. Today I went

through 5 pairs of shoes and boots - including my mud boots. Pants get

soaked up to the knees!

Lucy, one of last year's fillies, is doing very well on being tied out.

She is very smart about where the rope is, hardly ever gets it tangled

and never gets spooked by it. I think she will make a really great

harness horse. Her mother, Jane, has finally quit with the complaints

about being separated from her baby. Blasted fool, she would have let

that baby suck on her until it killed her. Pair of really stubborn

horses. For the most part, ALL of the horses are being royal pains in

the butt. Breaking halters, knocking gates down... good thing Smoke, our

old pony, is not with the main herd. HE picks up sticks and pokes other

horses with them! I hope I can sell this year's babies before I get

attached to them.

More later, Pat Z.

June 15, 2010