• 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...

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  • Festival Season & PRN

    24 June, 09:15 AM

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    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

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    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.

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    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...

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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

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    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...

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