Lucky Cats Farm

18/06/2025

Chinese chives and eggs

Make a classic Chinese dish of garlic chives and eggs- where the chives are from my patio and eggs are from my hens.Garlic chives (aka Chinese chives) are ta...

13/06/2025

Finally planted roses this year and finally posting on YouTube 😄

Don't be intimidated by bare root roses! I planted these just in February and these bloomed by May. Thanks for following along on my homestead adventure....

20/05/2025

Let's hear it for loquats!

The loquat is a large evergreen shrub that bears dozens of bulb-like orange fruit in the late spring and early summer.

20/01/2025

Have a restaurant worthy meal at home!
🥬 Fresh picked mustard greens.🥬
🥕 Carrots cooked in duck fat. 🥕
🦆 Seared duck breast with pomegranate (ran out of sauce).

Almost the same meal I had in a nice restaurant for our anniversary… and honestly tastes better with more veggies and less salt 😄 .

02/07/2024

Happy ! Hope your tomato season is off to a good start. What are your favorites so far?

I mostly planted cherry tomatoes this year. They’re faster, easier, and more fun! Also only 6 varieties total this year. It seems like the yellow ones come in first!

Sungold- dependable yellow favorite! It’s a hybrid, but the flavor and productivity is impossible to match in any yellow cherry heirloom.

Honeycomb- I got these when I couldn’t find sungolds. They’re also hybrids. More orangey and a little less sweet but similar.

Black Cherry- grown from seeds I saved! I like that they are heirloom, large, and complex flavor.

Sunrise bumblebee- beautiful heirloom, and good flavor, but low productivity so far.

18/05/2024

Calendula and chamomile are ready to be picked and dried! I wash everything because there are a bunch of little bugs on them, of course.

Chamomile makes great tea, fresh or dried. Calendula has been used for medicinal properties (salves, lotions, etc) but I’ve just enjoyed the flowers. I’m not sure what I’ll use them for yet!

29/11/2023

Late November harvest- bok choy, mixing, chard, eggs, and pomegranates.
The weather is getting chilly and rainy. We’ve had our first frost. My favorite part of the season is actually the greens that are about to explode!

31/08/2023

One of our 12 week old cockerels was grabbed by a dog. Although he initially seemed fine, he was sitting and not eating with his buddies. When I checked him, his wing was broken with a bone sticking out.

We had to cull him. Chickens are tough animals who hide their pain, but the bone injury looked pretty severe. Recovery seemed iffy, and he would have needed antibiotics, wound care, and likely would not be able to gain weight properly while he healed. Poor little guy.

As a male heritage broiler (Delaware cross) we were going to harvest him around 16 weeks. He’s a little underweight at 4.25 pounds, but all is not lost.

My 3 year old had a lot of questions about “white chicken’s boo boo”. I was honest with her about how he was very hurt and we had to cull him. She’s been telling us about how excited she is to eat him 😅.

22/08/2023

We have our summer honey for sale again! Mostly pint (18oz) jars for $15, and a few 12 oz jars for $10.

18/07/2023

My first Jarrahdale pumpkin snapped off the stem so I hope it’s ripe 😅. It’s weighing in at 9 lb 12 oz 🎃.

How are your pumpkins growing? Mine are struggling a bit to set more fruit with the heat.

24/11/2022

Thankful for all the harvests, big and small! 🥰 Have a happy (American) Thanksgiving!

09/11/2022

Brie with our own honey and pomegranates 😋