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Chicken Chili

Wet morning fields make for dandelion boots
Farming is like cooking which is like life in that some days you feel like you’re doing a fantastic job – and some days you feel little more than a miserable failure.
It’s funny how quickly the perception can switch, but I noticed it acutely as Sunday transitioned into [read more ...]

Rhubarb Cake

If you’ve never farmed before (and do remember, I haven’t) the term “rock picking” will likely mean very little to you. I hadn’t heard the phrase uttered until a couple of months ago when Steven, Melissa and I helped an organic grain farm down the road do its annual run of rock picking.
The grain farm [read more ...]

Maple-Bacon Cake

The tricky thing about spending time on a farm is – for me, anyway – that it’s damn near impossible to leave.
I went there two Thursdays ago to help set up the barn for the weekly distribution of product and food to CSA members. And all of a sudden there it was, a full week [read more ...]