The joy of a Farm is it is ever changing. The challenge of a Farm is it is ever changing. The frustrations of a Farm is… yup, you guessed it. These last few weeks have been particularly challenging for a few reasons but I will throw the gauntlet of largest responsibility at the feet of…
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NEW CONTENT ALERT! Take 5: Mindful Minutes overview
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…
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…
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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