The Radical Homemaker

Warning: Blending authenticity with joy may arouse contempt.

Shut up and listen.

“So…If he was a she last time I saw him…or her?… And I’m telling a story about that time….Do I call him her, or him?” “I have no idea.” We are sitting in the forest behind the house, leaning back against our favorite boulder, staring up at the blue sky through the branches and leaves.  […]

Prix Fixe Special Sat-Sun Aug 24-25

This will be our FINAL weekend of Sunday hours.  After this, it’s back-to-school, and back-to-Saturdays-only. This weekend’s Prix Fixe Special: Curried Chicken Salad w/cranberries, raisins & cashews Over fresh greens Choice of homemade brioche roll or (gf) cornbread Homemade Pie GF & Prix Fixe 19.95 As usual, we’ll open at 9am with our full breakfast […]

Talking Dogs

“Please.  I would like to play catch-peanut.”  Kit, our border collie-blue healer cross, stares intently at Ula as she flops down on the couch on the screen porch.  Her pointed ears radar themselves at my daughter, as though she can summon special powers through them.  “It’s a very excellent game, Ula.  I really enjoy playing […]

You can afford the best lamb.

A family of four can spend $440-$500 on a winters’ supply of local grassfed lamb.   We’re going to offer it to you for less.   Much less. Last year, instead of sending our surplus lambs off to the auction, we tried something different.  We offered them to our customers, whole, at a substantial discount. […]

The Flannel Vote

“What is it about white trash and flannel?” The words bounce around my brain as Saoirse, Ula and I drive by the house where they were uttered. We’re in Ithaca for an appointment, and before we take the long drive home, they’ve asked me to bring them here, to show them the house. It was […]

Sap Bush Cafe Prix Fixe Brunch Special, Sat-Sun, Aug 10-11

Split Pea Soup Made with our own bone broth &  Dad’s maple-smoked pork hocks Choice of  hearth bread or (gf) cornbread & grassfed butter Homemade (gf) Pie GF & Prix Fixe  19.95   We’ll open at 9am with our full breakfast menu, espresso bar & fresh pastries.  The special will be available 10:30-1pm.

Belly Buttons & Fairies

“Sooo…..Did your innie become an outie?”  Kate’s rocking the maternity farm overalls these days.  She’s working on the cafe computer when I come in to start preparing food for the weekend. “Hell yeah!”  “It goes back in, right?”  I lift my shirt and show her my post-maternity paunch.  “Sort of.  It just kind of droops […]

Do What You Want.

Shannon Hayes, 40, doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want to do. I’m going through a box of newspaper clippings when I find this.  It’s the opening line to a story about the health benefits of simple living in the Nov 5, 2014 edition of US News & World Report.  I’m wondering if they fact-checked that […]