Grass Is Greener Gardens

Here is a link to a great food blog, from a GIGG CSA member. Enjoy! The Whole Kitchen

Yesterday I had a discussion with a CSA member about the joys of kale. If you hate it (and you eat meat, particularly pork) Here is what to do: Ham, White Bean & Kale Soup Soak 2 lbs of white beans overnight. Rinse. Dice two large carrots and one large onion. Chop a bunch of [...]

There are worse sounds to wake up to than the sounds of contently feeding sheep.  Five shrill alarms emitted from my phone, for example, do less to gently coax me out of bed and more to roughly kick me out from under my sheets and onto the floor.  (my apologies to Bennett who can probably [...]

A couple days ago we spent some time cleaning out both the upper and lower hen houses.  About once a month we get all of the manure cleared out of the two barns in order to suppress some of the stink and also keep the hens (and their eggs) clean and happy.  Rich, who has [...]

okay, okay, but this is funny…

After some time off to visit family, I’m back on the farm.  In the little-over-a-week that I was gone there have been some significant changes.  (Mostly in the form of weeds…)  Our potato plants are great big; the chicky-babies have moved from their coops to pasture (not of their own volition, of course); fava beans and [...]

mmmmmm, hungry commune……

One intern left the the other (male) intern with the male farmer.  The female farmer has been exiled while the hockey game is on TV.  Mistake, sister intern…you’ll pay on re entry. The house looks like it was left with a pack of wolves, or a pack of male farmers. Actually the fields do, they’ve [...]