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Field to Feast: Recipe Recap
August is when the farm season heads into top gear at breakneck speed. Summer is in full swing, and with it a multitude of veggies are ready for harvest. By the end of the month, we’ll have melons...
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Field to Feast: The Busy Girl’s Guide to Canning Tomato Sauce
Thomas went with us to market this weekend, as he does nearly every Saturday beginning in May and ending at Halloween. I was standing at my scale helping customers when a little hand, attached to a...
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Field to Feast: Pan-seared Feta with Marinated Red Peppers
Friday, September 6th was the first day of school for my brand new fourth grader! Both of us were very excited. Thomas sat on the couch watching Spongebob Squarepants the morning before and said, “it...
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Field to Feast: Sunday Morning Homefries with Poblanos and Bacon… plus, A Toast
Fletch and I took a ride around the farm several weeks ago. Not only was it a fabulous photo day, it was also a day of memories, and memories are made for sharing. What’s the point of keeping them...
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Baking Up a Storm – The Cookie Review
Wow. What a week! We celebrated the holiday a little early, as we have each year for the past eight, and hosted our Annual Open House at the Farm last Sunday. It was a madhouse from the very start and...
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Wheat Berry Apple Salad: Hearty, fresh, and you always end up wanting more
I DVR’d Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern the other day. Thomas and I sat down to watch it and I couldn’t remember for the life of me WHY I wanted him to see it. He wasn’t too impressed with the...
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For the Love of Quinoa!
My son has a multitude of phrases that he will use rather than curse. I appreciate this, really, because at times I have the mouth of a truck driver and our relationship is such that I can say, “I know...
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Snapshots of the Farm April 2014
Today is April 25th. It’s a bright, sunny day with temperatures in the mid-50s and wind gusts up to around 10 mph. Not bad, today. The wind has been gusting to 40 mph the last three days, so this is...
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Kitchen Cheat Sheet: Fresh Herbs
I remember way back in the olden days… around the turn of this century… when a farmer lived by the seasons. We had planting season, summer, harvest time, and winter. The winter seemed to last...
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Field to Feast: Genovese Basil
It always amazes me how much produce we grow here on our 55 acres of Black Dirt. The sheer quantity is astounding and the veggies are all sold (we hope) at farmers markets or through our CSA...
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