Kowalski Mountain

06/06/2025

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23/05/2025

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Have you been wanting to make you own sauces or herb spice blends? 🌶 Not sure where/how to start? Barbara Sue, Kowalski Mountain, is going to be giving a hands on workshop at our Kentucky Sustainable Living Festival! 📅 Get you ticket now and DON'T MISS OUT!!!

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04/05/2025

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🌾 Unlock the Power of Wheat Berries! 🌾

Ever wondered how to store wheat berries for long-term freshness? Want to discover their nutritional benefits and versatile uses in your kitchen? Join us for an engaging talk that will transform the way you think about this mighty grain! 🍞

Barbara Sue, Kowalski Mountain, will give you tips to make wheat berries a staple in your home. Whether you're prepping for the future or simply curious about whole grain goodness, this is an event you won’t want to miss! So come ready to learn and ask questions! 📅 Get you ticket now and DON'T MISS OUT!!!

🎟 The cost of your ticket (covers all 3 days) gets you access to all our of workshops AND speakers! Get your ticket now! Sign up for our newsletter and get 10% off your ticket!

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🏪Sustainability Store: https://kentuckysustainableliving.com/collections/sustainablity-store

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📣To hear what other speakers and workshops will be at the festival: https://www.youtube.com/live/Un-QyLp7Lx8?si=3HkH1bK0HL22UaXJ

01/05/2025

Supper last night… stuffed shells made with fresh ricotta cheese, homemade spaghetti sauce and delicious sausage received in trade from our Amish neighbors plus homemade rolls. Looks like a perfect way to wrap up a spring day?
Looks can be deceiving! I had a particularly ruff PT session early in the day leaving me sore. We did evening milking chores a bit late and I really didn’t feel great. I planned to make stuffed shells the day before forgetting I was out of spaghetti sauce. Not having a better plan for the sausage… I pushed on. I started a small batch of spaghetti sauce, put the water on to boil for pasta and began heating a gallon of milk for ricotta. About midway through cooking dinner our pantry shelf came down. The weight of my canned goods and cheese press tumbled to the ground. Thankfully my cheese press came through without issue. Several jars of canned food and empty jars crushed.
Philip started clean up while I kept dinner rolling, helping as I could between dinner prep.
With most of the mess and broken glass cleaned up, Philip went outside to discover Meg, our milk cow in the wrong field. Knowing she was in heat, we had locked her up as far from our bull as possible. Meg had jumped the fence… the only way possible she could have gotten out. Thankfully Philip had fixed the corner post of the big field earlier in the day, as Prince was pacing the fence. The whole herd was in a fit, running and racing.
We were finally able to get Meg where we wanted her by using bait… I dragged a resistant calf back to the corral getting both of them contained.
We did enjoy a late dinner after dark… through all the chaos of the evening I finished that pretty dinner.
By morning Meg was still contained… but Prince had crushed his cattle panel barn in his pacing through the night.
Ohhhhh today was a day that homesteading was hard. While we share clips of cute calves, fresh milk, delicious food and gorgeous spring gardens… know that it’s hard to live this way…
Interestingly we choose it again… it’s the hard things in life that make us appreciate the good.
Today I’m cleaning carpets and washing the jars that survived. Here’s to a better day!