Camp Ratatouille
Are you suggesting bell peppers migrate? I may be the first person in history to have eaten ratatouille several ingredients of which spent part of their life growing under a giant sequoia. This is a source of considerable amusement for me. Less amusing is…
Keepers
Growing food is enough of a learning curve. Storing it takes the game to another level, especially when built environment is low tech and low square footage and natural environment is getting increasingly warm and erratic. Last year the apples kept in the root…
Say Cheese
I spent my birthday money on a cheese making kit. A step or two up from the single-batch gift boxes, it was an entry-level hobbyist setup with all the basic hardware and enough enzyme and rennet for a dozen or so batches, recipes included…
A Cow Named Lu
As I was driving back from an errand an hour or so southwest of home, a highway sign alerted me to a total closure of I-5 a few exits north due to an accident. I chose my own detour and found myself in a…
Arrival II: The Pie Garden
June 7, 2019 marks the first Edgewild strawberry and indeed the first Edgewild harvest of any kind. The total strawberry yield that season was about half a pound. My basis for that estimate is memory of quantity and size of berries compared to what…
Themes and Variations
May went fast. This is going to be more of a gallery than a blog post. All three Foodshed Challenge days for last month. It’s also a work in progress. I am getting the pictures up here. I will add captions and descriptions as…
State Fare
My first experiment in eating local took place in spring of 2010, six full weeks in March and April. Strangely enough it was my first time observing Lent and I was doing so shortly following my departure from formal religion. For a recovering Evangelical,…