This is the most macho harvest meal yet to grace our table. Sure, it looks like a wimpy vegetarian dish, but a lot of muscle went into the ...

In April of 2008 we added four laying hens to our wannabe homestead. It might well have been the event that changed us from wannabe homeste...

Now that we're settling down into some properly autumnal weather, with temperatures dipping below freezing overnight, I think it's ...

Tonight we'll have our first serious frost.  Temperatures forecast below freezing, so no ambiguity.  October is the month of goodbyes t...

I'm not sure how it happened, exactly.  With one thing and another, I ended up with well over 300 cloves of garlic, from seven different...

Last Thursday I went to the market to pick up an order of pumpkins and kabocha squash from one of my farmers.  I've been to this woman...