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Just in case you are not certain, we will NOT be bagging sand, walking 15 paces, bending over, lighting candles.

I have checked all the solstice calendars and the light returns to us beginning Monday, Decmeber 21!!!!

PLEASE dance, sing and do whatever it takes to facilitate a DRY solstice candle walk. Just incase you forgot, we got snowed out last year. Seems to be an every other year tradition, so we are due.

I will inventory what we gathered for last years' celebration and let you all know what we are in need of.
I know we need sand and we may need a few more candles. (The more candles, the farther we go.........)

Assuming we have a dry day/evening, we will start bagging sand about 9:00 AM.

If you have a utility trailer you can donate for the day, that would be truly awesome! We'd like here at the farm on the 20th (Sunday).

Please  forward to anyone you believe will want to participate in one of the year's most magical evenings!
It is my lifetime achievement goal to get to the Talequah Y from the corner of 204 and the highway (at Sound Food).  It will take many more hundreds of candles, bags and sand AND YOUR help!  Would it not  be just an amazing sight to see that many candles lit ?


Stay tuned for further updates.
And please feel free to send a check for supplies to K-Jo Farm, 20602 111th Ave SW, 98070.

If you go to our website: www.kjofarm.com, you will find a beautiful photo of the candles on Wax Orchard from 2007. (Thank you Lotus!).

With a heart full of light,
Karen

And then the seed catalogues start arriving!!!!! Yippeeeeeeeeee.

Whatever you are doing for Thanksgiving, do it with gusto and good cheer; even if you are choosing to be sloth like and do nothing!

We are tearing up the old, nasty, ugly, pukey, carpet in our house. We have lived here 10 (TEN) years and we are just now turning our attention and energy to fixing up the house a bit.  It is indeed with great cheer and gusto that I heave heaps of carpet, padding and 1960s linoleum tiles into the back of our truck.

I put out 5 1/2 pounds of fresh cheese just 15 just a little bit ago. Before O could come in and send this off to you, 2 pounds has flown out of the farmstand,
IF I had more goats, more hands, more time and a milking machine, I would love to make more cheese more often. Yogurt too.

I wish I had more eggs for you all, I just can't seem to cajole the girls into laying right now. There are three lazy hens who I believe never left their sleeping perch today, that is how dormant they are until the light comes back into their eyes.

I am grateful to all of you who support K-Jo Farm, me, us and all the farmers on the island!

Now pass the stuffing please,
Karen

Whatever you are doing for Thanksgiving, do it with gusto and good cheer; even if you are choosing to be sloth like and do nothing!

We are tearing up the old, nasty, ugly, pukey, carpet in our house. We have lived here 10 (TEN) years and we are just now turning our attention and energy to fixing up the house a bit.  It is indeed with great cheer and gusto that I heave heaps of carpet, padding and 1960s linoleum tiles into the back of our truck.

I put out 5 1/2 pounds of fresh cheese just 15 just a little bit ago. Before O could come in and send this off to you, 2 pounds has flown out of the farmstand,
IF I had more goats, more hands, more time and a milking machine, I would love to make more cheese more often. Yogurt too.

I wish I had more eggs for you all, I just can't seem to cajole the girls into laying right now. There are three lazy hens who I believe never left their sleeping perch today, that is how dormant they are until the light comes back into their eyes.

I am grateful to all of you who support K-Jo Farm, me, us and all the farmers on the island!

Now pass the stuffing please,
Karen

Hello  SOLA,  (Supporters of Local Agriculture),

I just put out some fresh Herbed Goat Cheese. (It has our Italian Parsley andgreen onion)
It is not the usual smooth cheese. It has kept a bit of its curd, so it has a very different mouth feel. I can only control so much of the cheese making  process. The goats' milk and the weather have as much to do with the end product as my heating, stirring and the simple magic of it all.

Speaking of control, about those laying hens...........We have somewhere between 65 and 75 layers out there in the back 40 and we are collecting a sad 1 1/2 to 2 dozen eggs a day. They're molting (shedding), it's dark, cold and now raining, so laying an egg a day is not high on their task list. And there just are not as many worms, bugs and crubs in the field to satisfy their protein needs this time of year. I suppose I could throw  them a pork chop or two from our pig harvest,  then we'd have $10.00 per dozen eggs and I know you all will just love that!

There also is a big basket of fresh picked sweet peppers. The varieties got mixed up in the harvest, so you will see little mini bells, big bells and some Italian Nardello roasting peppers. They are all crisp and delicious.
Depending on this rain, there will be some chard, lettuces, and beets tomorrow late afternoon.
There will be fresh yogurt Thursday.

Thank you all for being good eaters of really good food!

Karen

LOVE this weather!

The more I grow, the less I know. The more I grow, the more respect I have for my neighbor farmer friends Rob, Joanne, Chandler, Caitlin, Brian, etc. etc.

'I have put cheese in the farmstand and you will also find garlic and winter pumpkins.
There is also some delicious, whole leaf, whole head lettuce.

I think we'll be pressing apples  Sunday, October 18. If you have apples and you want to press them, come on over late morning-ish.

We also will have some K-Jo Farm pork available in about 3 weeks. It is at thebutcher shop now being processed. Let me know of your interest.
Thank you!
Karen

Does it get any better than a crystalline day like today?
I am putting yogurt in the farm stand in the morning.

PLEASE return any yogurt jars you may have. I'l be putting out the LAST of my quart jars.
We are getting almost 2 gallons of milk a day now, so there should be plenty of cheese and yogurt coming.
In cow language, 2 gallons from 5 goats is not much to be proud of.  One Jersey will give that form 2 of her 4 teats!
But this is not a competition  and the milk is such a different product.

Thank you for listening and Thank you for shopping local!

Karen

The colors and flavors of summer are in your neighborhood farmstands!
Thank you for being a SOLA!  (Supporter of Local Agriculture)

Yes, we have tomatoes at K-Jo farmstand this morning.
We also have Satsuma Plums! Big yellow, sweet, drip down your arm succulent!

Karen