The Radical Homemaker

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Lamb Harvest

I know. This may not seem a pretty set of images when pondering this way of life, but it is part of how we live. Every time I have an opportunity to work in our cutting room and feel these cool carcasses move through my fingers on their journey to becoming meat and sustenance for […]

Summer Choices

Summer Choices July 31, 2012 Tags: radical homemaking, sustainable agriculture, family farming, Tuesday Post Rain has fallen here nearly every day for the past week, offering welcome refreshment from this summer’s drought. Several hours of steady deluge Sunday had serious implications indoors. Comforters, blankets and pillow cases were pulled from the beds, sheets were stripped, […]

From Here

Joe* didn’t come to our farmers’ market booth last year because he wanted meat.  He needed Bob to weave him a pack basket for trapping.  In the course of our conversation, we learned he and his wife grew up in rural Pennsylvania, but he had been making a living as an auto mechanic in the […]

While I was Sleeping

In the rush and chaos that seems to define our lives during the growing season, I forget sometimes to stop and appreciate the things that emerge from Bob’s hands, working in the stillness of the night, while the rest of us sleep. Sometimes, a quiet moment to create can restore our bodies more than slumber […]

When A Best Friend Moves Away

I’m not much of a kid person.  I’m more of a dog person.  You know my type…the woman who stops strangers on the street to coo over their pet; the one who almost always has a four legged co-pilot when driving around town; who, when invited to dinner at someone’s house, is likely to spend […]