Monthly Archives: September 2013

I spent this evening in the woods with a stencil and a backpack full of spray paint cans.  I was marking selected trees: M for maple, W for black walnut, and X for dead trees to be cut down.  I’m going to try my hand at making syrup next spring […]

A vegetarian friend of mine brought to my attention the fact that  California recently banned the sale and production of foie gras–not the cruel practice of gavage, but the end product. I feel that’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I told my friend I felt this was not […]

Here’s yet another reason to select locally produced, hand-processed meats over the stuff the big, mechanized slaughterhouses churn out for international sale. USDA plans to expand pilot program that leaves meat contaminated with fecal matter Once we have broilers again, we’ll be slaughtering them right here on the farm where […]

I picked our first couple pawpaws for the year, and they’re tasty. Since they passed the taste test, the kids and I will be picking the rest of them later today (Saturday). Pawpaws are a native fruit, the largest one that grows in this region. The texture and flavor are […]