At the beginning of summer, I tell myself I’m going to process food for winter storage in small batches. That I’m not going to leave it all to the end of the season. That it will be more manageable this way. And then the end of the season comes, and I realize the only thing …
September is here, waking us up with cool mornings and sails of fog rising from the valley. For the first time in a year, I’m looking forward to a month without achiness and exhaustion. In June I was diagnosed with lyme disease, and though I’d been crashing every day, I pushed through. With the diagnosis …
I wish I could tell you we spend as much time cooking as we do farming, but it’s not true. At least not in spring. One of us is out in the field by 7:00 am, and often back out again after dinner. We balance garden time with toddler time, and more often mix the two …
It’s a watermelon, it’s a radish…it’s a watermelon radish! And it’s also a superhero of the vegetable world. What makes it so? Well, just take a look: I’m a big believer that beautiful food tastes better, and in late winter, when other storage crops are beginning to get soft, the watermelon radish holds firm. It’s …
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