Podcast #98 – Cooking Weather
We bought our Sun Oven before we moved to Longleaf Breeze, thinking when we did that it would be a fun novelty. After we’ve settled into life as subsistence farmers, though, it’s become our main cooking tool.
We bought our Sun Oven before we moved to Longleaf Breeze, thinking when we did that it would be a fun novelty. After we’ve settled into life as subsistence farmers, though, it’s become our main cooking tool.
We’ve been planning and dreaming for so long about the lodge that I wouldn’t have blamed Amanda for thinking it might never actually happen. Now that we can see real progress, it’s almost anticlimactic.
President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day in 1939. We hereby suggest moving it again, to the end of August. That’s when our production seems to be peaking. And we’re s-o-o-o-o ready for one of those cornucopia displays.
We’ve been away from the farm for several days visiting our children in California, so the Farmer-in-Chief approached Veg Hill with trepidation yesterday.
We’ve just returned from a week in California visiting our children and our grandchild. So much sunshine!
Yesterday was our big day – our graduation as Master Gardeners! We’ve been planning for this and working toward this day for more than a year, so we’re understandably proud to have this portion of our learning complete.
I’ve been wrestling lately with how Amanda’s and my outlook on the coming crises we Americans face differs from that of many of our friends. I’m coming slowly to the conclusion that it may relate to a decision we made a few years ago to embrace poverty as gracefully as […]
As you know by now, the Farmer-in-Chief is racing to keep up with the produce that’s ripening on Veg Hill. Daily she brings in big baskets of food.
Neither Amanda’s parents nor mine canned vegetables much. My mother was big on freezing vegetables, and Amanda’s Mom never was truly comfortable preparing food, so neither of us knew much about canning when we moved here.