Nickel Farm

Kale is unquestionably the most nutritious food on the planet and is the chief ingredient in my green smoothies. It sometimes will live all the through the winter.

I love my small (.20 acres) pasture which will eventually offer nutrition and fresh air to milk goats and chickens.

My favorite evening salad is fresh tomatos, avocados, and bean sprouts with a little Udos oil and ranch dressing. YUM!!!

I’m planning on having “vine ripened” tomatos clear to Christmas. For that to happen, I ripped several wood strips off the house and built a simple frame right around my 7′ tall plants and covered it with visqueen. The tomatos are planted adjacent to a south facing rock wall and should, with the electric heater I placed in the tent, last well into the fall.

Felt lousy when I awoke this morning.  Somewhat breathless, weak, dizzy, and sleepy.  It has occurred to me that I am probably detoxing and undergoing a cleansing/healing crisis as a result of consuming more Green Drink lately.  I think I will fix some eggs and toast for breakfast to slow down the detoxification process a bit.  Have to expect some discomfort as I progress toward immaculate health.

Felt somewhat better after a long nap and went outside for some fresh air.  Once out back, I spied the pile of small firewood I had under a tarp.  Decided to cut it up with my circle saw before we get more precipitation.  Felt good to move around and I resumed the Nickel Farm Journal update I had commenced earlier in the day.  The grass is starting to green up in between snowstorms.  Spring is on its way and life is good.

Awoke to 5-6” of nice fluffy white stuff this morning. Shoveled my driveway as well as that of my neighbor across the street before breakfast. Question: why do we PARK in a DRIVEWAY and DRIVE in a PARKWAY? Just thought I’d ask! I also swept the snow off the half load of wood I parked in the back last night.

Didn’t do much actual work today on the project. I am still fatigued from all the heavy lifting I did yesterday. It is hard to accept that I am not the sinewy “tough as leather” twenty year old I used to be but my body is starting to remind me more and more.

I did accomplish one important task today. I prepared three quarts of “Green Drink” in my Vitamix and delivered a pint of it to a health-oriented friend down the street. To a base of apricot nectar, I add water, lettuce, spinach, kale, celery, bean sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, pineapple, blueberries, banana, apple, stevia, Udos oil, vanilla, and maca root powder (all fresh). Normally, I would include protein powder, which is made from rice, but I am currently out of it.

While drinking my customary quart of water before eating breakfast, I am catching up on my journal. I noticed a strong chemical odor in the room, which, at fist, I thought was coming from the burning wood. Wrong! It was my wet work gloves starting to burn on the stove where I had placed them to dry out. Probably toxic fumes I am breathing – aghhhhh!

Later in the day, I continued my wood gathering project. I worked into the dark and hauled a whole trailer load of wood home. I parked the loaded trailer in my driveway for the night.

Felt much better this morning after about nine hours of sleep.  I munched several stalks of celery (very alkaline) last night before retiring and had no problems while sleeping.  I believe that a lot of so-called acid reflux disease symptoms are actually the result of our habit of consuming too many acid-forming foods in our daily diet.  Worked outside in shirtsleeves today.  Feels like spring but I hope we have “winter” first as we really need moisture.

Awoke at 3:00 am this morning with heartburn.  I will often get heartburn when I turn over on my right side and that’s what happened here.  I normally combat heartburn with naturally alkaline plants and plant juice, but I was too lazy to get out of bed this time and popped a few Tums instead.  Nonetheless, I started feeling headachy and my bowels went into an uproar.  I am here to say that a 40-degree bathroom is not a fun place to visit when one is sick.  I turned a small electric heater on in there for what proved to be several nighttime visits.  All in all, it was a pretty miserable night.

My ears ring constantly and have for over twenty-five years.  When I am sick or in stress, they ring extremely loud and it can become hard to bear.  I prayed for some relief several times during the day and kept a lot of background noise going in my room.

Worked some more on my grading plan and had breakfast of 9-grain cooked cereal with chopped up apple and banana.  After lunch, I sawed and chopped up a boatload of wood.  Be interesting to see how long it lasts.  Of course, there’s always furniture that can be burned if I get in a pinch.  Guess I will take my neighbor up on his offer of some emergency firewood from his shed before I get that drastic.  Actually, most of my furniture looks like it should be set afire.