"Eat it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do,
Or go without."
~A Pioneer Sampler, by Barbara Greenwood~

Pioneer Woman at Heart

One Flourishing, Frugal and Fun Family!

One family learning to live off the land, cut back on expenses, and to live a simpler and a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Enjoying more wild black raspberries

We are enjoying more delicious wild black raspberry pancakes today.  Made with preservative free whole wheat flour of course.

If we can muster up the energy to pick 8 cups of berries, I will make homemade jam for the first time ever.  The weather is sweltering hot today.  My eight year old was covered in sweat, picking berries, before 10am.  The humidity is horrible today, so rain should be on it's way.

Friday, June 25, 2010

What is this?



We have these small orange worms on our potato leaves. They are eating away and I keep picking them off. We don't use chemicals, so that is out of the question.

I tried looking these up on the Internet but nothing under potato pests comes up in my search. Any idea what these are and can I pick them off and feed them to my chickens?