Winter 2025 Random Thoughts
Wow, what a ride this winter has been! I think Mother Nature decided to scamper off to the Caribbean, have a margarita or two and leave Old Man Winter...
Gathering Summer Produce for the Winter months
About this time every year I get the strong urge to “preserve” the harvest. It’s knowing all the wonderful summer produce is winding down but still...
Are you part of the 90% who toss food before it's time?
As a country girl I learned a lot from my grandma about “waste not want not”. One of my pet peeves is how consumers let food dates intimidate them into...
Romanesco
Produces own Christmas trees
What are these strange little trees? Romanesco broccoli, aka broccoflower or Roman cauliflower, is botanically a member...
Winter on the farm
Winter months on the farm
If we’ve heard it once we’ve heard it a million times: “It must be nice to have the winter off” or “What will you do with...
Coming out of Hibernation
Many of us, myself included, look forward to the new seed catalogs with the anticipation that people of a “certain age” used to look forward to the...
Winter Reflections
As the year comes to an end and cold winter days are upon us, here are some ramblings of the year past and year to come. As is typical for us we had...
What to Use for Pumpkin Baking - It's not what you think
Just like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus canned pumpkin is a myth of sorts. According to the FDA “pumpkin” is “prepared from golden-fleshed, sweet...
Holiday Tradition-Fruitcake
I know you’re rolling your eyes thinking it’s not even Halloween and you’re talking about Christmas fruitcake. In my defense a good fruitcake takes...
From farm to table and back to the farm
Sustainable agriculture:
The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet society’s food and textile needs in the present without compromising the...