Monthly archive September, 2009
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Renee 3.0

by Renee Wilkinson on Sep 28, 2009 • 4 Comments
I celebrated my 30th birthday this past weekend on the Oregon Coast, surrounded by good friends. It was so much fun! I can’t imagine a better birthday weekend. Jay flew into town mid-week (distracting me from writing a second post last week…) and we drove out a little early to the beach house. My friends...
canning / drying / food preservation

Welcome Fall

by Renee Wilkinson on Sep 22, 2009 • 4 Comments
It doesn’t feel like Fall today, and yet today it officially begins. The temperature is suppose to climb to the 90′s this afternoon and yet I get an unexplainable itch every year at this time to stock my cupboards and prepare for old man winter. To date, my cupboards are stocked with the following: 10...
backyard livestock / chickens

How to Kill a Chicken

by Renee Wilkinson on Sep 16, 2009 • 59 Comments
***Warning: This is a pretty graphic post about how to butcher a chicken, complete with pictures and lots of description. My intent is to help people who are preparing to butcher their first bird.*** On a recent Sunday morning, a local Eugene friend invited people over to learn how to properly kill and butcher chickens....
canning / food preservation / rant / tomatoes

Tomato Sauce = Fail

by Renee Wilkinson on Sep 11, 2009 • 8 Comments
My eyes are still wet with tears and I can’t believe I am making myself write this post. I had a huge bucket of Roma tomatoes from the Urban Farm I have been planning to can into marinara sauce. I waited a week for them to ripen to the perfect level. You don’t want them...
canning / drying / food preservation / vegetables

Endless Squash

by Renee Wilkinson on Sep 9, 2009 • 3 Comments
So much summer squash… so much zucchini… so many patty pans… Saturday was a really raining morning, the kind I actually prefer to work outside in. That meant fewer volunteers showed up, but the summer squash waits for no one – it still needed to be picked. If we decided to put it off a...

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