Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2022

Farm Stand Fun

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One of the things I love about where I live is that, recent development notwithstanding, it is still rural enough that there are dozens of ...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Sweet Corn and Sweet Memories

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If you’ve never had sweet corn Mexican style, you really have to try it. When I was a child, we rolled our fresh boiled ears of sweet corn ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Blackberry Blessings

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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The Fermentation Files (Pickle-Palooza)

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I’ve been doing a lot of fermentation lately. There was the rhubarb wine this spring, which I bottled a few weeks ago (and sampled while I ...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Making Up for Lost Time (Mabon Again)

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We arrived home late the night before last. Or perhaps more accurate to say, early yesterday morning. We finally opened the door to our home...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

Guelaguetza in Oaxaca

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Of all Mexico’s thirty-some states, Oaxaca is the one with the most indigenous groups and the most indigenous languages surviving. There are...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Annual Opening of the Blackberry Blossoms

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Decisions, Decisions

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My youngest child, Paloma, says she doesn't like blackberries. Sadly, i see no option but to disown her. 
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Berries and Smoke

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The first blackberries are ripe. I picked enough for a pie today, while I was grazing the goats, though I didn't make the pie. Tomorrow ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The Fermentation Files (High Summer Edition)

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My High Summer Altar It is the highest point of high summer. The sun is strong and steady and the pastures are pure gold, without an...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Homecoming Harvest

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We had a bit of difficulty getting home from Oaxaca. Without going into details, we got home 48 hours later than we thought we would; paid m...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

High Tide of August (Fair and Food)

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view from the top of the ferris wheel Tuesday I took the kids to the fair. All the usual fun was had... visiting friends who are ex...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Heat Wave (Here and There)

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The last week has seen temperatures in the high 80's, near 90, every day. The skies have been bright and clear. As close as I live to th...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Tidbits and Fruit Update

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Beautiful evening out with the goats. They are all (all four of them - the fewest number of goats I've had in years) looking fat and...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

State of the Farm Summer Solstice (Drought 2015)

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There are still almost two weeks until solstice, but with the weather we've been having, it feels very much like summer. In fact, it fee...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Harvest Time (Buckets Of Spuds)

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Yesterday I harvested all the rest of the chiles off my cayenne plants. There were a few green ones hanging on, but most of them were...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Let the Harvest Start (Ingenuity)

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Today has been a food preservation frenzy, and it isn't over yet. In the morning, I took five pounds of assorted cheese, a small jar of ...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

High Summer Plans (Adios, Muchachas)

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On thursday, my nieces, who have been living with us for the past year, are going home to Oaxaca. It's been a good year, and we have enj...
Monday, September 2, 2013

My Daughter's Garden

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While we were gone in Oaxaca last year, my daughter Rowan and her boyfriend Phil decided to use the greenhouse and enlarge the garden a...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Anonymous Squash (Must be August)

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When I got home from the grocery store this afternoon, I found this box of Zucchini on the porch. There must be twenty zucchini in there...
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