With such an overarching site, and so many topics that seem to fly at our readers, I have decided to add a weekly post that helps unite the work in the kitchen, around the Farm, home and gardens to our linking theme: BEING MINDFUL in our work towards a fulfilling and happy life. Look for…
Month: May 2021
DBF’s Top 5 Grows: #3 TOMATOES
We LOVE tomatoes. And our garden wouldn’t be OUR GARDEN if it didn’t have 2-3 entire beds (and our deck and various other locations) filled with their deep green, thick foliage and incredibly delicious fruits in a rainbow of colors. Tomatoes HAVE to be one of the most used veggies out there. It’s found in…
WASTE NOT: Mushroom, Cabbage & Shrimp Dumplings
No one likes wasting food. Spending cash on something you needed at the store, but you don’t use ALL of? Well, that stuff just sits in the fridge, takes up space and ends up 1. rotting, 2. gets pushed to the back and takes up space for NO good reason (screaming “EXPIRED” over and over…
Cherry Vanilla Shrub: A drinking vinegar that can be both naughty and nice
So shrubs… LOVE A GOOD SHRUB! (Shrub as in drinking vinegar, that is… not that I have anything against greenery…) Especially in the heat of the summer, it’s so refreshing to just pop into the fridge, grab a glass of seltzer (from the Soda Stream… love that lil treasure too…) and drop some of this…
DBF’s Top 5 Grows: #2 COLLARD GREENS
Man, do I love a hearty green. See, I grew up on foraged greens (and cultivated ones too, but it’s the rustic, ‘ground to table’ things that stick out the most to me from my youth.) Coming from a small town with very meager means, we were ALL about living off the land as much…
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