Special Herbs and Spices
byRemember that raised bed in the back yard, built in a two-hour frenzy of disgust? Well, that little patch of land has turned into…
local food
Loose Morels
byCouple weeks ago, our friends Amy and Warren sent an email about the joys of foraging, a note that simultaneously warmed my heart and…
Cannery Row
byOur farmers say the green beans are in, and you know what that means. The chance of an explosion on the wee homestead just…
Gone to potluck
byJenny Jack Sun Farm forwent it’s usual Dinner on the Farm this year for a lower-key potluck meal for its patrons who wanted to…
The Meal Deal
byBack in the olden days, when we first began subscribing to a CSA, we couldn’t identify half the produce in our bag. Every week,…
Shut your lid and can it
byI hereby declare Canning Season 2014 open. Yay? Now is the time on the wee homestead when we begin to psych ourselves up for…
Rad’ical
byI hate radishes. OK, I used to hate radishes. But our cute-as-pie farmers keep giving them to us each week in our CSA. For…
Apples to Apples
byBack in October, during our 75-pound-apple-canning, attempted-thumb-removing spectacle, I did wonder a weensy bit what in the world we would do with all that fruit….
On the sauce
byTook the tack this year of adopting something I wanted to learn as a resolution, rather than something I wanted to give up (like,…