Any day when I walk into my kitchen and come upon a scene like this, is a good day. In the morning my friend A and her family picked me up for a couple of hours pulling carrots at Siena Farm. Every Fall the farm invites their shareholders to come and help pull the carrots …
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Bread and Mushrooms, and Honey
One of the changes we made during the Local Food Challenge that we kept was the locally-grown-grain home-made bread. Four Star Farms in Northfield, MA, has been my go-to place (either through Volante Farm when they stock it, or straight from the farm) for hard red winter berries, which I grind in my mighty Vitamix. …
And then there were four…
robbers trying to get into the top entrance (closed) The robbing at the Common Yard continued, relentless. As soon as I had removed the robbed-out Borgia hive, the aggressive colony started on the next one down, the Constanza colony. A fellow Common beek alerted me and I ran over and closed literally all entrances to …
Lost Two Hives, So Soon
All last week some of the other colonies in the Common Yard were robbing the Borgia hive. All I could do was close the top entrance, and the bottom entrance was already reduced to the minimum, which slowed down the process. I didn’t open the hive as it would have invited a frenzy, which I …
Of Museums and Mayhem
I loved going to museums, but over the last couple of years the simple joy of it got entangled with doubt, guilt, and sadness. With every visit now it gets worse (and more interesting). In the “mummy room” at the MFA I felt a misgiving akin to my horror of zoos. I practically fled from …
Beautiful Food
I approached the second-last Farmers Market of the season with winter in mind. More tomato seconds (soup/sauce), more cauliflower (freeze), leek (freeze), corn (freeze if it doesn’t all get eaten before I get round to it), lots of onions, red and white (storage), 4 pecks of Cortland apples (rings and sauce), potatoes (storage), and spinach …
Out of This World Commercial!
Can’t Get Enough of Local Food
Homemade yogurt from local milk and homegrown honey. Yum!
Omnivore’s Delight “Diet” Wrap Up
This is the last post in my Omnivore’s Delight Challenge week of blogging What a marathon that was. You can read all the older posts here. All the folks in my household enjoyed the Omnivore’s Delight Challenge. Turns out we didn’t have to change our eating habits much – only our shopping habits. Still it …
Getting the Bees Ready for Winter
The last couple of days have been “bee days,” as they’re called in our household. Mama smells of smoke, and a honeybee inevitable gets into the house or a car or a bee suit (yikes). But it’s all good. The aim is to get all seven hives ready for winter. I have some strong queens …