Eat Local
I don’t grow carrots. In fact, I despise growing carrots so much I’d rather not eat carrots at all than grow them myself. And you know, it’s not actually that I despise growing carrots as much as I despise harvesting and washing them. Unlike their underground friends — potatoes, turnips, radishes and beets — who [...]
The Man loves pickles. I mean absolutely loves. And The Small Humans are not far behind him in their own adoration, the larger of the two being quite capable of eating an entire quart of pickled eggs on her own… in a week. So, while the 28 quarts of pickles I’ve put up over the [...]
I find there are two ways in which things will normally go for new gardeners. Either you have tremendous beginners luck, or you don’t. In the latter, you suffer for all your mistakes right from the get-go and are forced, very early on, to become the best damned gardener you can be. In the former, [...]
The Pig Dog is starting to show some instinct. It’s terribly exciting. I mean terribly, terribly exciting. The kind of exciting in which a split second can make your whole day. Last night he held a wayward laying hen to the fence like a boss. Like a BOSS. I cannot wait to see what he’s [...]
This girl brings bacon into the world. 
