What’s Happening? What a weird word – I can’t help it, how did it come to be (to hap)?: happen (v.) late 14c., happenen, “to come to pass, occur, come about, be the case,” literally “occur by hap, have the (good or bad) fortune (to do, be, etc.);” extension (with verb-formative -n) of the more common hap (v.). OldContinue reading “Happenings: February/March”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Monday Thoughts
It snowed. It snowed all yesterday and never emptied the sky, although the clouds looked so low and heavy they might drop all at once with a thud. The light is diffuse and hueless, like the light on paper inside a pewter bowl. The snow looks light and the sky dark, but in fact theContinue reading “Monday Thoughts”
Officially Officialness
We’ve been busy around making things sort of officially official – branding ourselves, as they say (shudder). Remember, this is a bare-bones operation, no fancy stuff here. Logo, new address for this blog (now rockbottomhomestead.farm), stamps, bags and a bread delivery next week! We’ve upgraded supplies for breadbaking and are considering sourdough pizza dough andContinue reading “Officially Officialness”
Rock Bottom Recipe: Winter Fish Pie
The cold crisp days desire a lot of one-pot hearty meals. And we supply. To be honest, I was hoping to be a little snowed-in this season because I have a lot of reading and writing to do (between my own PhD dissertation, tutoring, teaching assistance, and as a recent art agent, I somehow haveContinue reading “Rock Bottom Recipe: Winter Fish Pie”
Imbolc
What a good time to celebrate – smack in the real depths of winter, where here in New England many call the ‘winter season’ November through March (though we all know well and good it can snow in October and April, too!). But February 2nd is the technical midpoint between the Winter Solstice and theContinue reading “Imbolc”
Rock Bottom Recipe: Rock Bottom Lentils
Just in time for weekend planning – we’ll start a little tradition that every Thursday or Friday a recipe will be posted. Dishes that quintessentially make up our household. We are omnivores but I am quite skilled at turning many dishes into vegan or GF (feel free to ask if you don’t see correlating substitutionsContinue reading “Rock Bottom Recipe: Rock Bottom Lentils”
Year of the Rat
hmmm, let’s hope the rats are fortuitous and not rampant in New England carrying ticks and getting into stuff…I can think of some political rats that I could do without, as well (pretty much anyone that doesn’t respect other humans, including women, children, LGBTQ, other nationalities or lovely skin colors, mindsets, ecologists, artists, or anyoneContinue reading “Year of the Rat”
MidWinter
And so we continue, here in West Gardiner, Maine – the ebb and flow of the January thaw, then a freeze, some snow -and snow sledding! If you haven’t had the experience of a lovely little sledding party here at Rock Bottom – do consider it – it’s a nice affair, a pot of somethingContinue reading “MidWinter”
Wheat Dreams
In the Winter it’s all about planning and dreaming. We plan for chickens (and a new chicken coop), we plan expanding the gardens to include more rows of dry beans, we plan on shaping the blackberry aisles and adding medicinal and dye plants to the sundial garden. We plan for seedlings and a smokehouse. WeContinue reading “Wheat Dreams”
2020 Vision: Beginnings
And so we begin. Well, we’ve already begun – just a few years behind us deciding how and what we were going to do but now is the down and dirty time of it all. Now that we are all home full-time, our homestead will have all the care and attention to blossom! A dearContinue reading “2020 Vision: Beginnings”
