So – the first week has passed and I am excited that we have a few things accomplished, though not many.
Plant something – nothing yet, but we are getting a plan together.
Harvest something – eggs – we’ve been lucky that our hens have laid through most of the winter with no heat lamp or anything.
Preserve something – nothing – would have done the tamales, but they were too good and had to be eaten straight away!
Waste Not – compost and recycling. We had to find a new place to take the recycling, since the local place moved away.
Want Not – Rick started cleaning up in the yard a bit this weekend. A bit more of this to do until the garden is ready to plant.
Build Community Food Systems – Made a big batch of tamales with my friend Jen last Sunday. I brought home about 25. We were going to freeze them, but they were SOOOOOO tasty. So we kept them in the fridge for quick lunches. That’s good too though, since I often skip lunch if there’s nothing easy to eat.
Also, joined the Advisory Group for the CSA. I’ll be working on the web communications with a few other members.
Eat the Food – We’ve enjoyed the pickled beets, canned and frozen peaches, elk sausage, bacon, basil pesto, and pablanos from the freezer this week. Here’s the recipe for the delish tamales (from epicurious.com): Grilled Tamales with Pablanos and Fresh Corn – Yum Yum! Oh – and Jen rendered the lard for us! She went to buy lard, and the butcher at the store did not have enough, so he gave her some pork fat and we rendered it ourselves. Easy and interesting. No – we did not eat the chicharróns however. 😉
The Lazy Homesteader 
Also – been litterally itching for the farmers markets to open up again. I looked up dates last week, and two weeks ago, Rick and I visited the indoor/year round market in Denver. We got a lot of info about possibly adding chicks to the flock and met a local farmer to get them from. Stay tuned on that one.
Wow– lots going on at the Schell U.H.! Thanks for the inspiration to try tracking our baby steps this way.