The land and I are recovering after being in the midst of an intense winter experience. Night after night the garden was bound up in frost, the cold wind tearing at the sheets of frost cloth. There is something particularly bone-chilling about winter in Florida. It soaks in through all your layers and settles over…
Tag: frost
Mint and Pecan Chutney
I love the bare, crystalline mornings, edged with frost and sharp with ice, when the blue sky is so clear as a bell you want to dive in between the bare branches as the birds do and fly up and up. I got frostbite one morning on the bottoms of my feet from crunching barefoot…
North Florida Pecan Pie
The first of the winter frosts came through last night. We spent yesterday chopping cassava stalks, making a shelter for the goats, and moving flats of tiny lettuce into the cold frame. It got later and later in the day and by the end of the afternoon we realized we didn’t have enough cover or…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 