note to vegetarians: the content of this post may be offensive and we apologize in advance for that. in an effort to be closer to our food source, we kindly asked a local farmer if we could help harvest chickens. the concept of harvesting animals comes from barbara kingsolver’s book, animal vegetable miracle, a fabulous […]
ok, so it’s well past the first frost date according to most climate maps i’ve checked, but i’m still going to try to overwinter some spinach…this spring our spinach was pathetic and we heard that if we plant in fall or late summer and let it overwinter, we will have a lush crop come spring… […]
tuesday night, author michael pollan spoke to the choir at oberlin college in ohio sharing a sun-food agenda for the next administration. in a recent letter to the next president published in the ny times, pollan relates the current industrial food system to 3 main issues of both candidates’ platforms: energy, climate change and health […]
this morning i pulled in the remaining tomatoes….several red, but mostly green and now i have to come up with a plan for what to do with all of them. a colleague suggested pickling them, which i’m considering….any other recommendations out there?
well, it’s not much, but i’m pleased with our efforts (plus it’s more than we produced last year)….i don’t think i want to see another apple until the new year! in total we processed and canned the following: 20 qts apple sauce 18 pints apple butter 11 pints raspberry jam 3 pints grape jam they […]
or two or 24 pounds to make a few quarts of apple butter…..but it’s so worth it! start with fresh rinsed apples. cut them into quarters or eights and put all parts (including core and seeds) into a large pot with water. boil until soft and then run through a food mill. you now have […]
it’s october 12th. it is 80 degrees in northeast ohio. and today we planted 27 cloves of garlic…. we bought 3 bulbs of garlic from seeds of change, broke them into cloves and planted 4-5 per 12″ x 12″ square. they are planted with about 1.5-2″ of soil on top of them and straw on […]
since last year, we have had a home-built wooden box about 4′ x 2′ by 6″ high on the floor of our basement. we built this to experiment with vermicomposting–using worms to compost our organic waste. having read the book, worms eat my garbage by Mary Appelhof, we decided to give it a shot since […]
on saturday, we went to rosby’s berry farm to pick raspberries. the berries were bountiful, juicy and sweet, despite a few problems with sun spots (which doesn’t effect the taste). after about an hour, we had 6 qts of berries (plus a tummy full of goodness from all our sampling…thank goodness they didn’t weigh us […]
in addition to harvesting tomatoes, we are also enjoying peppers! last year, we barely got any peppers and this season, we have red and yellow peppers and they are super tasty. tonight we grilled them….see recipe below. Recipe: roasted veggies with sweet potatoes (serves 4-6 people) 3 large sweet potatoes, diced 3 medium peppers (red […]