We are in those baking hot, long sun days now, the hard drought time of the early summer when even the wild plants wilt and long for rain. At my new farm, the dry afternoon wind blows through the herby meadows and smells fragrant and good from the wild croton and the skullcap. This year…
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Sweet and Simple Blueberry Cobbler
This is the height of the grass season, when milking and making cheese and yogurt and kefir and butter fill up my days. Every day I skim the yellow cream from four gallons of milk, and churn three-quarters of a gallon of cream into golden butter. Every day after milking, the cows, sleek with their…
Callaloo Curry With Flatbread
The cold weather is here at last! Sweet-smelling woolens have been taken out of the cedar chest to air in the beautiful dry air, and we are enjoying the last of the summer garden’s offerings…. spinach-like amaranth greens. Amaranth is really more of a weed than a garden plant; indeed, the spiny, weedy amaranth torments…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 