Want a sweet and tasty snack that your kids might even choose over their dwindling bag of Halloween candy? Dry some apples! You will end up with chewy, unbelievably sweet morsels of happiness. You will put a lot of work Read More …
Month: November 2012
Rethinking the Turkey
Ahh, Thanksgiving. Family, friends, pie, buttons on the pants becoming unbearably tight. It’s a harvest celebration, when all the summer crops have been picked, stored, and preserved, and we make a humble attempt to be truly thankful for all Read More …
Sprouting an Urban Farm
Hey, Fort Wayne folks! Right here in our neck of the woods, Matt and Ann Merritt are attempting to accomplish exactly what I feel like the future needs for our food production. Kudos to their hard work. I plan to Read More …
Bittersweet Bites
Because I am very new to the beginning-to-end process of growing food, I don’t have a specific–or heck, even a general–mental timetable yet. I don’t have memorized, from experience, what is supposed to come first, what crops come and go Read More …
Moving Away from Chemicals–It's not All or Nothing
Have you heard of the Marsden Farm Study? No? Me neither, until just a couple of days ago. Yet the results of this study are so important, I think they should be published, advertised, spread like wildfire. It represents a Read More …