So by now, even MY garden (Humble Garden) is starting to produce, after months of rain of biblical proportions. My pickling cucumbers are growing, green beans and lemon cukes are whats for supper, and zucchinis are starting to really outpace our intake! Anyone who gardens will eventually need to preserve or put up some...

(Lactobacillus god – Sandorkraut) . A couple of weeks ago, while twittering, I heard about this conference at Boston University called “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” which will happen this coming weekend (May 8-9, 2009). Its sort of shocking how close I came to totally missing out on this conference. I have pasted at the bottom...

Took this video out in our goat shed in our backyard the other...

This soup is extra good because I am using really local food, namely, Dandy the really bad rooster (as seen below). He could NOT play nice in the chicken yard, being brutal to the girls and also to us if we strayed too...

Raising your own chickens in your own backyard means having VERY fresh eggs and, should you so choose, fresh meat on occasion. If you have roosters (which are not necessary unless you want to eat fertile eggs, love roosters, or want baby chickens) you will also be assured some drama. Barley, that big orange chicken you see,...

I am utterly wiped. I just killed & butchered 6 chickens (5 meat chickens and one very bad sumatra rooster who had attacked my kids one too many times). Two are now on to boil, to make stock and chicken sandwiches for supper. The other 4 will also be boiled to make heaping amounts of chicken...

I have been looking forward to doing this project for several years. I have distinct memories of when I was a child in Iowa, down in our basement in the bathroom we always hid in when the tornado sirens went off several times a summer. In that bathroom, near the shower, was an...

(This was cross-posted to Humble Garden) (Homemade chevre cheese) We are enjoying our independence from the food chain. We get our eggs and our milk (and now cheese) from our backyard. We eat our salads from our backyard. If you don’t now, what are you waiting for?! If you think food prices are high now,...

(Asparagus fronds) Can I tell you about a secret thing I learned recently? We planted asparagus last year and this spring we have been sampling a few spears from the 1st year growth. The production quantity is meager in the first year so its sampling, by definition. (Grilled asparagus) No, thats not the secret. (Asparagus crowns before...

This is a call out to those of you out there who have some experience with setting up your own CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) activity. I need your guidance and mentorship so any and all input is welcome and appreciated. We are currently seriously contemplating setting up a trial run chicken CSA where the chickens will be...