This site is about my life as a farmgirl, wife, mother and grandmother. We have a beautiful granddaughter and the cutest grandson. We own two farms in Craig County Virginia, leasing one and raising beef cattle on the other.
Spring delicacy
We had a slow start with our asparagus beds this year but now it’s coming in with leaps and bounds! I started a new bed last spring from seed and it’s starting to grow but will be at least two more years before we get any food from it. Most of our beds are wild and started by the birds. We’re sharing it with friends and family and eating it about every meal. I’m sure we’ll tire of it soon.
As long as we pick, it keeps coming in.Bags and bags of fresh asparagus
I don’t freeze or can asparagus because I’ve not found a way to preserve that it doesn’t come out spongy or slimy. Can’t stand that!! We just enjoy it as long as it produces and as long as we’re not tired of eating so much of it. I’m going to experiment with making an asparagus creamed soup and will let you know how that goes. That may be one way of preserving it for winter consumption.
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother that lives on a farm in Craig County, Virginia and I am retired. I love to cook, read, quilt, craft, garden, hunt and take long walks in the woods. I have one gorgeous teen granddaughter, a wonderful little grandson and two beautiful and caring children, boy & girl.
I've been married to my farmer husband for 46 years and he's the "love of my life"!!
I love doing things the "old" way such as canning, making maple syrup & cider, handcrafts and baking. I've taught myself to crochet, embroider, and quilt with help from my paternal grandmother. I could read until the cows come home.
We live off the products we raise and hunt for the most part. We run 75 head of cattle on our farm, 30 chickens, three rabbits and one dog. I help my husband with the cattle, feeding the livestock, hauling in firewood, fence repair, and general maintenance on the farm.
I was a stay-at-home mom to my children and then went to work when they finished high school. I was a cook at a School for At-Risk Teens and part-time substitute teacher. Then I started work at our local Farm Bureau and stayed there for 17 years. I worked at Virginia Tech for almost five years and decided to take early retirement in July of 2015. NOW, I'm a full-time farmwife and loving every minute of it!
I love to read fiction and the Bible. I'm currently hooked on quilting novels and Annie's Attic mysteries.
I started this blog in 2011 and have met so many interesting bloggers and have kept up with my friends through my blog.
I love to hunt with my bow and rifle and with a camera. We hunt to fill the freezer and cellar but would never kill anything for the fun of it.
I have friends and family all over the United States. Some of my ancestry last names are Bradley, Dickson, Hylton, and Rose.
I've lost both of my parents to brain cancer and miss them very much. I have one sister and four living brothers. I was raised in Paint Bank VA and moved to New Castle VA when I married. I went to school in Waiteville, WV, Gap Mills, WV and New Castle Va with a short semester of college at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke VA.
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6 thoughts on “Spring delicacy”
Ours was doing good then it froze, tried to grow again, then it froze again. We are really late getting out crops in also. Strange year.
We haven’t planted anything yet in our garden and all of the asparagus seemed late coming in compared to past seasons. We have had ice the first week of June at the farm so we never get in a hurry planting beans, potatoes, corn and especially any plants.
Good luck!! Ours just keep producing and I don’t do anything to them. I can only imagine what would happen if I added a little chicken manure in the spring before it starts popping through the ground. I may do that this year when it starts going to seed.
This is the blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we have Shetland sheep and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In addition we have donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, geese, and peafowl. The blog describes the weekly activities here.
countrygirl-lifeonthefarm 
Ours was doing good then it froze, tried to grow again, then it froze again. We are really late getting out crops in also. Strange year.
♥ღLinda
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We haven’t planted anything yet in our garden and all of the asparagus seemed late coming in compared to past seasons. We have had ice the first week of June at the farm so we never get in a hurry planting beans, potatoes, corn and especially any plants.
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I’ll help!
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So jealous! We have a couple of asparagus beds started, hopefully next year will be our first good harvest year!
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Good luck!! Ours just keep producing and I don’t do anything to them. I can only imagine what would happen if I added a little chicken manure in the spring before it starts popping through the ground. I may do that this year when it starts going to seed.
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