Walter Pierce

@wpierce

I raise children and farm animals, love cooking and gardening, write code to pay the bills, & play music in my limited free time. He/Him/His. Banner: 5 guitars on a black couch Profile: white dude, salt & pepper beard, blue shirt, faded green hat

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Walter Pierce@wpierce· 22d

I came in from work to the smell of tomato soup cooking down with fresh herbs from the garden and rabbit stock. Smokin hot partner who processes rabbits and makes delicious soups? Yeah I'm the luckiest dude in the world. 🌱🍅🍽️🐇 #SmallFarmLife

5 gallon stainless steel pot about half full of simmering tomato soup on a gas stove with a white tile wall behind it.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· 24d

Time for more pickles and tomato soup. The kids will probably eat all these cantaloupes by Tuesday 😅🌱

Garden haul in baskets and boxes on a faded rainbow rug on gray tile floor with a wooden table to the right and a bunch of shoes to the left.

Bottom left: maybe 40-50 cucumbers, a dozen or so okra, and a couple of red cherry tomatoes in a cardboard box

Bottom right: another cardboard box mostly full of yellow cherry tomatoes with a few medium-sized red and pink ones

Central right: Metal grilling basket with 3 cucumbers, 4 yellow straight neck squashes, a yellow patty pan squash, and a handful of purple and green beans

Top left: Red shopping basket with 8 cantaloupes

Top right: Red shopping basket with a bunch more yellow cherry tomatoes, some medium to large red and pink ones, a few Romas, green, red, and purple sweet peppers, yellow sweet banana peppers, a couple of green jalapeño and a few red cayenne peppers

Walter Pierce@wpierce· 24d

Pest control and pollinators in the garden 🌱 #BugSky

Top view of a brownish gray wheel bug on an evening primrose stem

Eastern carpenter bee with its fuzzy yellow thorax and shiny black abdomen nomming on a cluster of hot pink phlox flowers

Walter Pierce@wpierce· 25d

Air quality is shit but we need our tomatoes 🌱🍅😷

A hot young couple wearing k95 masks, standing under a trellis supporting cucuzza squash. There's also a bird's nest at the top of the trellis. In the distance you can barely make out the trees under a smoky/hazy sky.

A brunette lady holding a giant pink tomato in her right hand. She's wearing a blue kn95 mask and leaning onto a table that has a bunch of tomatoes on it: red, pink, and yellow. There are some long cucuzza squash hanging down from a trellis behind her.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· 26d

I think the cucuzza squash did alright while we went on a mini vacay 🌱

A dude in his early 40s wearing a faded hat, sunglasses, and white shirt that reads "Outdoors Together" in rainbow colors and black plaid shorts stands under a trellis supporting a squash vine. In his right hand he's holding a 4 (ish?) err... 120cm (ish?) cucuzza squash that's hanging from the trellis.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· 26d

Casey. I've got a beautiful 1987 Dakota if you want it that has none of those issues... 5 speed manual, and I re-routed the throttle cable so it works with the aftermarket carburetor without needing to pull a string through the window to get it to move.

An old black 2 door Dodge Dakota sits in some grass between a crepe myrtle and a holly. A green piece of metal roofing is just in front of the truck.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· 29d

Family vacations are always fun and informative when your father-in-law is a mycologist. He took the kids on a mushroom walk this morning. 🍄

2 sheets of printer paper with mushrooms and their associated identification.

Left: Turkey tail, crust fungus, tyromyces
Right: Amanita

3 sheets of printer paper with various mushrooms and their identification

Top left: Agaricus
Top right: Boletes
Bottom: Hypomyces, unidentified

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 11

Backyard grocery shopping is the best 🌱🍅

A red shopping srf 2/3 full of mostly ripe tomatoes next to 4 cantaloupe on a green metal table

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 10

Way easier than digging and storing and replanting tubers. Not as flashy but still beautiful and they still attract the pollinators 🌱

A pastel yellow dahlia bloom amidst a sea of green foliage

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 10

The Speckled Sussex hens (the brown and white lady in the front) are probably my favorite - they are the most friendly and curious of the group, and aren't snappy when they're broody. #SmallFarmLife 🐔

A few dozen hens on a driveway and some grass behind a gate, one brown and white mottled hen is in front of the gate. There are lace flowers, lilies, back eyes susans, yarrow, and more to the left and cornflowers, bee balm, black eyed susans, and a giant rock to the right. In the distance there are various deciduous and evergreen trees.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 9

It's not always a Pinterest-level photo... 🌱🍅🥒

A mess at the end of a wooden table: 40V lithium battery for a push mower, masonry drill bits for a rotary drill, a black pair of sunglasses, some green zucchinis on top of swimming goggles and a head lamp, yellow squash and cucumbers to the right of that, a yellow patty pan squash, a box of purple (and a few green) beans, a plastic clamshell of yellow tomatoes, a box of yellow squash, a gray aluminum 1.5 liter cup, a chicken flavored ramen box filled with unswen contents, all in front of a white tile wall. There's also the splat of a tomato near the drill bits.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 8

It's time 🌱🍅

A metal colander full of yellow cherry tomatoes on a wooden bench next to a white tile wall

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 6

My loves 🌱

A few dozen onions - yellow, red, and white from left to right, hanging by jute twine in a barn

Brunette lady wearing a striped shirt taking a selfie with an onion flower obscuring her face

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 4

At least the chilis are enjoying this heatwave 🥵🌱🌶️

4 green jalapeños hanging off of a plant in some sunbaked soil. There's a little soil on some of the peppers from being splashed during watering earlier.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jul 3

I love these beans because not only are they delicious (raw, steamed, sauteed, roasted, pickled canned...), but it's waaay easier as a colorblind person to actually see them. 🌱

3 purple podded pole beans in daples sunlight hanging from a vine with green leaves supported by a metal trellis made from a livestock panel

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 28

Checked in on our 90+ year old neighbor, brought him some squash fritters and coffee, and HAD to take a pic of his garden. I always have garden envy whenever I go over there. 🌱

Looking from the west end of a large garden, 100 foot rows going west to east of watermelon, sweet potatoes, 1/2 tomatoes 1/2 sweet peppers, some brassica that has gone to seed, and corn off to the right.

Another picture of a large garden with 100 foot rows, brassicas gone to seed on the left, melons in the middle (this row was hidden by the brassicas in the other photo), and a few rows of corn.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 28

Can't beat fresh dinners from the backyard* in the summertime 🌱🍽️🍜🐐🧀 #SmallFarmLife *Flour is not from the backyard

3 yellow squashes, 1 green zucchini, a sweet onion, 4 cloves of garlic, a speckled brown egg, a light green egg, dill, mint, sage, basil, oregano, thyme, and chives on wooden cutting board next to a clear plate with a half disk of feta and a white bowl of flour, all on a gray countertop.

5 squash fritters frying in a cast iron skillet

A bunch of squash fritters on a paper towel lined plate

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 27

Morning visit from a hummingbird before the rain (hopefully) arrives this afternoon 🌱

A garden bed full of fuschia colored bee balm, white yarrow, black eyed susans, green eyed susans, day lilies, and a bunch of others that can't be seen. In the background is a gray house with a white metal roof.

A hummingbird hovering over a bunch of white yarrow and fuschia bee balm flowers at the end of a driveway.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 26

Gardening and math are both wonderful hobbies! And this is our second year in a row with abysmal golden zucchini harvest so those plants won't be taking up space in our garden next year. 🌱

20 or so cucumbers, 3 yellow squash, 1 zucchini, and 1 yellow patty pan squash on a timber border of a garden bed. To the right of the timber is old wood mulch, to the left are weeds.

A paper portioned into 5 sections to keep track of squash and cucumber harvest. Top left says YELLOW SQUASH and has 54 tally marks, too middle says PATY PAN (sic) with 14 tally marks, top right says GOLDEN ZUCCHINI with zero tally marks, middle right says ZUCCHINI with 13 tally marks, and the bottom says CUCUMBER with 117 tally marks.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 21

Not bad for some random pieces of wood and metal we had laying around in the barn. Still needs the counter, shelves, and siding but it's coming together. #SmallFarmLife

A bearded man wearing black shorts, a blue shirt, and a faded green hat gives a thumbs up while leaning on a farm stand frame he has just constructed out of scrap wood and metal.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 20

🎵 Only two things that money can't buy and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes 🌱

3 almost ripe tomatoes on a white window sill

Brunette man and woman in their 40s taking a selfie in front of a tomato field

Brunette man and woman in their 40s kissing in front of a tomato field

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 19

12yo decided to make pickles from the garden harvest this afternoon (and some dried serranos from last summer) 🌱🍽️🥒

A pile of cucumbers with the ends trimmed next to some fresh dill and garlic on a gray countertop

Mason jars full of pickles, some spears, some chips, on a glass shelf in a refrigerator.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 17

Bee balm is doing its bee thing 🌱🐝

An eastern carpenter bee (I think? I'm not an entomologist but it doesn't have a fuzzy butt like a bumblebee...) nomming on a pinkish colored spikey monarda flower against a sea of blurry greens with some cream dotted in from the yarrow flowers in the distance.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 17

🎵 The waaaaaaaiting is the hardest part 🌱

5 rows, each about 40' long, of tomato plants supported by wooden stakes. Beyond the garden bed is a hay field surrounded by cedar trees.

Closeup of 3 unripe tomatoes on a plant tied to a wooden stake

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 15

Onions are getting close to being ready, squash harvester doing a great job collecting dinner ingredients 🌱

3 rows of yellow onions, maybe 10-12 feet long. The bulbs are protruding from the soil, green leaves still mostly pointing straight up.

A young child wearing a light red shirt standing in a garden path holding 4 yellow squashes. To his left, the viewer's right, are some squash plants. Behind him to his right are barrels cut in half turned into planters, with a garden gate ajar behind them.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 13

Thriving 🌱

Metal colander overflowing with yellow straight neck squash, green zucchini, and a few cucumbers on a wooden table.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 9

Probably got $20 worth of kale, lettuce and lambs quarters here we grabbed from the garden for salad tonight 😋

Colander with a whole bunch of kale in the back, romaine leaves in the front, and lambs quarters on top. All on top of a white towel on a gray countertop.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 8

This is (one of the reasons) why I don't typically buy cut flowers for birthdays or anniversaries. Seeds and bulbs keep giving, year after year 🌱

Burgundy colored queen Anne's lace flower in bloom amongst soft green foliage. A smaller cream colored one is just below it.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 8

12yo: Dad, could you MAYBE not put sooo much kale in the soup tonight? Me: Maybe... 🌱🍽️🍜

Colander of kale, some lacinato and some Siberian, on a wooden cutting board on a gray countertop

Soup with white beans, yellow summer squash, green zucchini, diced tomatoes, and wilted kale in a yellow Dutch oven on a gas stove.

Walter Pierce@wpierce· Jun 7

I normally post a lot about the food we grow for humans, but would be remiss if I didn't include these workhorses that provide habitat and food for the pollinators that live and visit here 🌱