Vegetables make me smile

Two years ago (really only two years?  Seems like longer), I was this happy about harvesting vegetables on Brian’s farm: Feeling very lucky that two years later I can repeat the photo op with first harvests from my own farm: Check the City Grown blog for more on what we’ve been up to.   Keeping [...]

Farming and intimacy

Well that’s a titilating title. What I want to talk about is intimacy with place — familiarity with a piece of the world and the systems that go into its use.  Becoming a farmer has made me more aware of and attuned to this intimacy.  It has also made me want to explore how we [...]

:-)

    A quick weekend visit with my dear ones from last year made for a happy heart.  It was good to check in with Betsey and Brian and the Bainbridge farms… some new and exciting things happening; much remains comfortingly unchanged.  I love these people more than I can say  

Planning ahead for the cornbread of the future.

I’m taking slow food to a whole new level. Want to eat some delicious cornbread? First, plant some corn. I had asked Luke and Adam here at Oxbow for permission to grow a little garden.  “Since I’m from the midwest,” I said, “I’ve been feeling the urge to have a cornfield in my front yard. [...]

One trillion things I love about Alice VanderHaak.

In reference to: http://puttingdownroots.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/why-i-love-becky/ Alice and I have a pretty standard history: we met at a dance.  I was at the Saturday night mixer of last November’s Tilth Producers conference when I noticed a vivacious young blonde shaking it next to me. I have since learned that she “doesn’t dance” so it must have been [...]

Hey what’s up, I live in a yurt

Hey so guess what… it turns out, I really love peeing outside!  I usually visit the potty first thing in the morning and last thing at night, as I’m sure many people do.  Living in the yurt with no bathroom inside, my roomie Alice and I have to walk outside anyway to get to our [...]

Thoughts on being done

So, October is over and the end of the season has come. It’s been a good fall as it was a good summer and a good spring. Looking back over the whole seven months, it’s one of those things where somehow all at the same time it feels like it’s been forever and it has [...]

Holy goodness, it’s August

Wow!  I kind of lost track of the blog there in July — too much going on.  But life is good.  The past month has been just an explosion of things growing.  All the stuff we’ve planted over the last few months is now ready for harvest… so we’ve been harvesting, harvesting harvesting all the [...]