Our little community of West Fulton is saddened that our post master, Cathy, is finally retiring. All day long yesterday, folks have been dropping by to bring homemade gifts — handmade inlaid cutting boards, sculptures of copper and stone, honey and maple syrup. We brought her a care package with flowers, soaps and candles, Saoirse […]
Archives for November 2013
Pastured Turkey Cooking Tips
The moment is at hand…it is time to process the turkeys, which hails the official end of this year’s growing season. Our farm valley will finally fall silent over the next two weeks, and following our family Thanksgiving feast, we will rest. For nearly twenty years now, our family has been raising turkeys out […]
The Wonders of Home
The Weston Price conference was wonderful and mind-expanding as always, and many thanks to all of you who turned out for my talk, and who asked such wonderful questions. You always give me much to ponder! But now, it is so good to be home, where I walk around my kitchen, pad about the […]
Off to the Weston Price Conference…
I’m headed down to Atlanta today to spend the weekend at the ever-popular Weston Price International Conference. If any of you will be going, I’ll be speaking Sunday afternoon, talking about techniques for having a meat-based diet in times of ecological and economic crisis, based on my most recent book, Long Way on a Little. […]
Beets
Last canning of the season… Posted with Blogsy
Bedtime
To keep them safe from predators, the turkeys must be herded into their huts at the end of every day. By helping, I keep hoping Saoirse and Ula will develop an appreciation for what I have to go through with them each night. So far, no luck. Posted with Blogsy
Making Friends With Death
I can’t be the only mother who secretly detests Halloween. I hate the costume planning that inserts itself into a busy harvest season, requiring either absurd amounts of money or the investment of astronomical commitments of time at a sewing machine for one evening of candy-drugged over-stimulation. It inevitably results in crazed children raging […]
Gifts from Pomona, Goddess of the Orchard
Waited til we’d had a couple frosts and a few snows before taking these. Amazing flavor! Posted with Blogsy