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Experiments in Homegrown Eating
24 June, 09:15 AM
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Q: What do strawberries, scup, pasta, and Cornish Rock chicks have in common?
A: They are all recent players in my “getting to know your food” trials.
I picked close to 15 pounds of strawberries the weekend that Tony Andrews Farm opened. It’s roughly 3 minutes from home and the plants were loaded with beautiful, brilliant red berries. I picked and picked and picked until my knees and thighs said “no more!” But then I picked...
Filed under Food and tagged with berries, cape cod, chickens, eating, fish, food, garden, local, outside, pasta, photography, photos, scup, seafood.
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Festival Season & PRN
24 June, 09:15 AM
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival was last weekend. It’s one of those “I’ll get there one day” events I fawn over from afar every year. When I imagine jobs I might try I think I could handle being a teacher solely because it would allow me to pack up and go to TBF —> NWSS every year.
So I figured it was time to talk music again because there’s lots of new...
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Ode to Radishes
5 June, 04:06 PM
A brief garden update: I have been eating radishes and enjoying lettuce and herbs. Radishes are delicious but sometimes so pretty they’re difficult to eat.
The tomatoes are looking very happy and I believe I have now collected at least 7 varieties in the garden. Some heirloom, some hybrid, which makes me feel a little sleazy but we’ve all got to start somewhere.
In effort...
Filed under Outdoors, Food and tagged with chickens, dogs, garden, outside, plants, radishes, vegetables.
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I said Yes
5 June, 03:42 PM
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Titling this post just so makes me giggle. My friend Melissa recently titled a post the same, but for a vastly different reason.
Today I accepted a job at the New England Fishery Management Council. The acceptance came after a long and harrowing decision-making process enflamed by the fact that this job is not near the place where I have resided in the past four-point-five years (that place being Cape Cod). After spending much...
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How Does Your Garden Grow
9 May, 09:22 PM
I come from farming people. Just a generation or so away were people who grew food for a living, and in between there are a slew of folks that grow food for personal and family sustenance. As a child I hated gardening chores – weeding, harvesting, “putting up.” My parents have always had large gardens, and my father tends the vegetables while my mother grows flowers. I was never excited about helping them, but now...
Filed under Outdoors, Food and tagged with garden, must have books, outside, photography, photos, plants, vegetables.
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Recent Comments
- jess (Experiments in Homegrown Eating)
S – we’re making cheese soon, right? ;-) A – i’m no expert but i’ll offer all the help i can! B – i’ll let you know …
- Brian (Experiments in Homegrown Eating)
So, who handles the all too important step that lies between chicks and cutlets?
- Amanda Christiansen (Experiments in Homegrown Eating)
Love it! You really inspire me to work harder at eating local (since I can’t grow my own yet). I’m also going to …
- Buck (I said Yes)
You said yes? Congrats! Farmland sounds good!
- Stacey (Experiments in Homegrown Eating)
Looks and sounds incredible! I’m so excited for all that you’re doing, and all the things I’m already learning with you. It’s so nice to …
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