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Introduction If you've known me for any length of time, you probably know I'm really into food and cooking. Heck, at least half my blog posts mention food in some fashion. I thought it might be interesting to chronicle my relationship with food throughout...
Hard to believe after the harsh winter, but it's planting time again. We are pretty excited because last year by the time we got the garden plot created and planted, it was already fairly late in the season. We are back again at our friends place (Keith...
Over the last couple weeks I've run into several folks who are leaving the city for the suburbs and at the same time I'm reading about permaculture, so it's creating some interesting juxtupositions in my head. This morning on NPR they had a story about...
There has been a ton of stuff going on this summer related to our research into farming and trying to learn new things. I'm getting behind on blogging about it, so here are a few highlights. Over Memorial Day weekend, we visited our friends James and...
So I've gotten really behind on my blogging, my current project schedule isn't very conducive to blogging. I often blog on my lunch break, but I've only been taking a half hour lunch lately so I can leave work early enough to beat most of the evening...
So actually a lot has been going on in our ongoing research of all things farming, organic and gardening. We are learning a lot, but there is still a lot to process and I don't want to do too much thinking in public. But I can at least talk about what...
We finally made our first trip to a dairy goat operation this past weekend. Hopefully more details later, but in the meantime, enjoy a couple of photos.
One of my favorite cookbook authors, Suvir Saran, waxes philosophical on the wonder of home grown eggs. They have some of the South American Araucana hens, which produce eggs in wonderful shades of blue and green. The deep brown ones are quite lovely...
Over this past winter I've been reading a lot of books related to sustainable/organic farming and animal husbandry. One recent book I can highly recommend is The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman. The book is chock full of dense, useable information...
I just finished the classic Joel Salatin book " You Can Farm " and found it to be very thought-provoking. One of the things I like most about it is he doesn't just have good ideas and suggestions, I really like his philosophy. He talks about philosophy...
Some farm shots are up on Flickr , including our trip to First Farm Inn in KY just outside Cincinnati (when we went to the Over The Rhine album release party), a trip to More Than Delicious Orchard north of Chicago and our recent trip to Caveny Farm ...
A humorous, but spot-on take on the whole bottled water issue from Garrison Keillor Technorati Tags: sustainability
Last year Kristin and I were having a big Thanksgiving dinner shindig at our place and wanted to do something different for the turkey. After looking at several options, we decided to purchase a heritage Bourbon Red turkey from Caveny Farms and picked...
So I was walking to work this morning and over by the river someone had put out a big pile of feed pellets for the pigeons. what the heck are they thinking feeding these birds sky rats? Who are they ... PETA-wannabees ... thinking they are being kind...
I just finished reading The Ethical Gourmet and found much of it very thought-provoking, but one thing that struck me is I don't think a whole lot about the fish I eat. I don't eat fish maybe as much as I should, but I do love sushi. I'm realizing I should...
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