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Food | Gardening

Garlic Scapes
ByFive Feline Farm June 5, 2015

What Are Garlic Scapes? Garlic scapes are the tender end of the shoot in hard neck garlic varieties. As the plant grows in springtime, it sends up a shoot that is tender at first and later turns into bulbils. Those tiny bits of garlic are also edible. The scape is this white end and the…

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Farm Tasks

How Do You Do All That?
ByFive Feline Farm April 30, 2015

One of the most frequently asked questions about the Farm is “how do you have the time to do all this?” It’s a question we even ask ourselves sometimes. There are only two of us working this hobby farm. No employees, no volunteers, no interns. There are some things that we do contract, but those…

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Farm Tasks

Hobby Farm Transformation
ByFive Feline Farm April 12, 2015April 12, 2015

It’s been just over eight years now living on this slice of the country we call Five Feline Farm. At first it was just the “farm”, a tongue-in-cheek expression of this postage stamp sized property in the midst of large acre farms. Now it is becoming much more than that. Slowly, with the requisite blood,…

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Food

Foraging For Food in Winter
ByFive Feline Farm March 1, 2015

Oh, the longing to forage some fresh food. Perhaps something from the garden. Maybe the woods or the herb bed. But it is February and our ancestors chose to settle in Central Illinois. Foraging in mid-winter is restricted by snow, low temperatures and a season of rest. But we still want to eat fresh foods. …

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