Farm Blog

“We’re eating these. Today.” I thaw a salmon steak, shake frozen green peas into a bowl, and toast a tray of pecans. "Finishing strong, finishing strong," comments Jeff as he sees our December feasts appear in the kitchen. With only a week to go in our year-long hand-harvested food challenge, this is no time to hoard treats. I am tired of letting our tastiest food go stale. Freezing is no guarantee of long-keeping flavor. Canned food is notoriously long-lived but isn’t e

More of 2017 is behind us than in front of us. This has brought up some fierce questions about how, why, or if to continue our hand-harvested Food Challenge. Back in the summer, Daniel said, “I want to keep going with our challenge in 2018.” “Oh, so you’re volunteering to be garden manager next year?” I retorted, hands on hips. “I busted my butt to grow all that food, and I might have a few other plans for my life besides doing that again.” In November, though, with a front

Months ago, I ordered a few American Chinchilla rabbits from a rabbit breeder I met at a rabbit show. Yes, there is such a thing as a rabbit show. Since the breeder is from Canada, I figured she might as well bring the rabbits when she came to a show here. The catch? Daniel and I planned to host Fall Foods FireFest that day, a celebration of tasty foods cooked over a fire. A bucket of clamshells awaited anyone who wanted to try to cook an egg in one. Senia had a bunch of