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Recent Writing from LocalHarvest Members
Mini Pot Roast with Many Vegetables
Cookus Interruptus - Jan 30, 2009 - By Cynthia
This week at Cookus Interruptus we are featuring a pot roast where vegetables are the star and grass-fed beef plays a supporting role. An expensive and comforting meal using potatoes, carrots, parsnips, onion and brussel sprouts roasted with red wine,...
Dining With Michael Pollan
F.A. Farm - Jan 30, 2009 - By Walter_1
Toni and I regularly eat a late supper. She works long hours as a social worker and I am always "on" with farmwork, housework, computer work, etc. I also get stronger as twilight comes on, what the Old Norse called "kveldulfur" or...
New Wintertime tradition
Wild Things Farm - Jan 30, 2009 - By Terry_5
This past winter I celebrated the Winter Solstice with what I hope to be a new tradition: canning tomatoes. Yep, that's right. I love December 21, just because to me it's hope during the dead of winter that warmer weather is on the...
Longer Days Promise Bright Beginnings
Sleepy Bee Lavender Farm - Jan 30, 2009 - By Dave_1
We've had the coldest January in Connecticut since 1994 (15 years). Now the calendar flips to February and I can see the daylight glow in the horizon sky after 5 o'clock when I leave the office. Hello, sunshine! Welcome back! After two...
Weathering the cold
ASIF Gardens - Jan 30, 2009 - By Kate_4
It isn't easy to weather freezing temperatures. In other climes, gardners build greenhouses and plant in containers to move into greenhouses. With school hours we just haven't done that. Instead, the nights that dip below freezing, Gus, Andy and I...
Anticipation of another season
Weskeag Farms - Jan 30, 2009 - By Georgene
So Spring is not too far away. I look out on the snow covered ground and wonder what this season will bring. I guess the one thing I have come to learn after asking this question every Winter for 25 years is, that, I have very little control over any of...
Heritage and Heirlooms back on the farm
Vintage Hobby Farm - Jan 29, 2009 - By Jennifer and Justin
I am so excited looking through the seed catalogs. I made the decision to do all Heirloom seeds since we are a Heritage Breed farm. They just taste better and are more natural. Of course you are depending on natre not science. But the flavor is outstanding. I...
A Great Day for a Cat Nap
Double R Farm (Amish Country Soaps & Sundries) - Jan 29, 2009 - By Christine_2
A few days ago we awoke to the phone ringing at the crack of dawn.It was the superintendent of the school where I teach. School was delayed due to poor road conditions and the impending storm. One by one we straggled downstairs, and...
Gourd crafting season
Osma Acres Farm - Jan 29, 2009 - By Billy
Here at the farm it is well below freezing with about four feet of snow on the ground, perfect weather for sitting in our craft room and working on gourds. http://www.localharvest.org/blog/26682/resource/Snowday003.JPG We...
Keeping Our Agreements
F.A. Farm - Jan 29, 2009 - By Walter_1
Yesterday, I drove a 75-mile round trip to a meeting and the person who set up the meeting didn't show. There were two of us who drove down and the cost in mileage, lunch and wasted time was approximately $100. Obviously, I won't...