Sap Bush Cafe has a new home on the web!

Sap Bush Cafe is now open for the season, every Saturday, 9-2 through the last Saturday before Thanksgiving.  We are now posting the weekly specials over on a special page dedicated exclusively to cafe event over on the farm website.  Find it here: www.SapBushFarmStore.com/Cafe. … Read More >

The Banana Peanut Butter Coffee Smoothie

“You kids just want to shove me into whatever version of myself is most convenient for you!”  I lash out at Saoirse. She doesn’t deserve it. There’s a jazz concert tonight.  I want to look nice.  Last summer I bought some pretty new clothes that might fit under the harness for my bari.  I’ve yet … Read More >

Shannon Hayes Speaks on Hearth Matters

It was a pleasure to join Kathryn Lukas-Damer and Erin Szuma of Hearth Matters for an extended conversation about Radical Homemakers, Redefining Rich, and what makes a hearth-centered life work....and what doesn't. I hope you'll check this out! … Read More >

In My Expert Opinion

Photo by Growtika on Unsplash It sounded like such a sweet gig.  I’d have to take a few days off from the farm, but I’d get to travel to the Pacific Northwest where I’d advise for a living history project about meat production and cooking during the Pioneer days.   “So we just need you to … Read More >

Worth Remembering

“Think over your life,” Xavi said, a Marlboro perched between two fingers of one hand while the other used a demitasse spoon to stir so many sugars into espresso that it had become a syrup.   I sat across from him at a sidewalk cafe in Barcelona thirty years ago, sipping my cappuccino in awe. He … Read More >