Farm Blog

Here’s our BIG NEWS: we’re getting a cow! Her name is Cookie. I can hardly think or talk of anything else. I am deeply in love with Cookie, even though she has yet to arrive at the farm, and I have only spent a few minutes actually touching her. I am sure the fantasy will collide with the reality, but for now I spend some time every day preparing joyfully for her arrival. “I built you a whole empire for miniature goats, and now you want a cow?” says Daniel. “Oh don’t worr

I just got back from a trip our to Lopez Island, a bucolic stop on the ferry ride around the archipelago off the coast of northern Washington. My friend Saskia spends time out there with her family, and she’s pretty much the fairy godmother of the food challenge. “Here,” she says as I walk in the door of the cabin. “I made some salt for you.” She has carefully evaporated salt water to make a fine-grained delicious salt. It’s vastly better than the gray metallic-tasting st

Basically, my beloved Daniel and I are planning to spend all of 2017 eating only what we or friends have gathered by hand. No packaging, no trips to the store, just pure story-filled food. Already we have spent at least two weeks every month in 2016 eating this way. Earlier this spring it really hit me that everything we grow in 2016 is what will feed us in the first half of 2017. Yikes! And now, finally, I have hit a psychological tipping point where it feels like we hav