I had a planned post on my local flour for today, but I’ve postponed that until Monday, because our Chicken Meeting hit the front page of the Longmont Times Call: Chicken fans praise backyard birds as fun, useful.
For a cold and stormy night I think our meeting fared pretty well. Not including our personal entourage [...]

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As a kid we had chickens and we had fresh eggs. As far as I can remember, I always liked eating eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, soft boiled, hard boiled, they were (and are) a tasty food. My grandmother also raised chickens from which she made the best scrambled eggs in the world. They [...]

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There are a variety of reasons to eat local, can food, and cook from scratch. One might do this because fresh food tends to be healthier or because local food takes less fossil fuels to transport. Or one might eat local, because it is fun to get to know the local farmers and feel like [...]

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A few days ago Jess of Practical Nourishment asked her readers “how does your garden grow?” I finally got the chance to snap a few shots (and pick up a few skeeter bites in the process) of my small garden venture for the season.
I have three different types of strawberries in my garden and one [...]

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Last Sunday my husband, my father and I piled in the Corolla (baby Green Me stayed with his Grandma La La) and headed out to Monroe Farms, our CSA of choice. The mission? To pick enough strawberries to make the 48 mile trip worth the actual and environmental price of our gas! But seriously, whatever [...]

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