Holiday gift giving is an wonderful opportunity to stretch your crafty muscles and to support small businesses. If you're feeling particularly DIY this season, this post has you covered with 100+ handmade gift ideas (if you are pressed for time, try one of these ideas). But if you'd like to support ...
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Braised Turnips and Apples Recipe
Two storage crops that we have an abundance of this year are turnips and apples. Turnips did remarkably well in the garden (and of course, I over-planted), so we have a large bed of turnips in the ground and ready for harvest! We also have 8 or so bushels of apples from local orchards ...
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Living Without Running Water
For the past 5 years, our family has been living without running water. Instead, we live with what I have heard referred to as "walking water." In our case, the walking part has been quite literal - walking hundreds of gallons of water in buckets from one place to another.
I ...
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Winter Squash Cheesecake Recipe
I love cheesecake, and back in Oregon when we were milking Alpine goats, I made it regularly with our soft goat chevre. I adapted a recipe from Donna Hays, and instead of using ricotta and cream cheese, I just substituted chevre. This winter squash cheesecake recipe is one of the most ...
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Five Foods to Store for Winter
Stocking up on storage crops in the late summer and early fall, and storing them for winter eating is a great way to get local, organic food at a lower cost and higher quality than what you might find in supermarkets. In addition to growing many storage crops in our garden, we like to visit our CSA ...
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How to Preserve Eggplant for Winter Eating
Do you love eggplants as much as I do? They are such a seasonal food, only available in the hottest of summer months, and taste delicious in so many ways - in curries, roasted, grilled, and mixed up in dips and spreads like zacusca or baba ganoush.
They are also a crop that does very well here in ...
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