Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Quince Años for Hope

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Hope will turn fifteen in October. Fifteen is a major, major birthday in Mexico - in the old days it was the traditional coming of age birth...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018

Cooking in Oaxaca (Improv Style)

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Meatballs in red sauce  I love to cook, but cooking here presents some, ahem, challenges..   We are staying at my mother-in-law’s house and ...
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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Sunday, July 1, 2018

All the Fruit We Won’t Be Eating

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The cherries are just getting ripe. Paloma and I went out and picked this basket of cherries in about four minutes flat, off of one of our ...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Long Live Hippies (Trade Network ‘18) S

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We are currently getting about three gallons of milk a day from my two best dairy goats, Polly and Christmas. I have been making cheese two...
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Friday, June 8, 2018

Bloodsuckers (Parasite Problems)

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Dairy goats are plagued by parasites. It's just a fact. Some areas of the country are worse than others, and in some areas resistance ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Annual Opening of the Blackberry Blossoms

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Monday, May 28, 2018

Homero’s Great Big Birthday

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My husband is a fortunate man in many respects. Not the least of which, obviously, is that he’s married to me. But the luck that I am thinki...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Summer in Oaxaca (Abbreviated Cheese)

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This cheese season will be a short one: we are going to Mexico for most of the summer. Over the past three years we have been slowly, by fit...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Good Beltane to You!

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My Beltane Altar. I don't have any images specifically for Beltane, so I used this sketch of Danae welcoming Zeus in the for...
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Farm Finances, Goat Edition 2018

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For my records: all four baby bucklings have been sold, surprisingly. Usually, bucklings are hard to sell. The four were sold for an aggrega...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Baby Goats Make Grey Days Okay

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Bunny needs to be beaten off the fruit trees.  The babies are learning what’s good to eat (blackberries! Yum!).  Paloma, being gently attack...
Friday, March 30, 2018

The Long Goodbye

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Today at around five o'clock in the evening I got the call from hospice that my dad had died . It was anything but an unexpec...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Baby Goat Drama

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Flopsy’s quadruplets For the second year in a row, I’ve been in Arizona dealing with my dad’s health crisis while the baby goats are born. T...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

The Fermentation Files (Spring 2018)

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As usual, I have a couple of different fermentations going on in the kitchen. At this point in time, after years of tinkering and experime...