Devouring life, one bite at a time
We’re getting ready for spring around here and I thought I’d share an idea the hubby came up with a few years back for an easy, clean composter. First, take an old water drum. This one is 55 gallons and has a screwtop lid. Drill …
I’m not usually a morning person, but weekends have me waking up early to feed my neighbor’s horses. What started as a chore has become a peaceful, almost zenlike approach to the day. I appreciate the intention it brings and any moment to connect with …
A few months ago, Inside Sonoma published this article on rare local foods. Sonoma County has four of the 200 regional foods recognized on the Slow Food Movement’s “Ark of Taste” list of foods under threat.
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| Photo by Ariane, Inside Sonoma |
Our specialties include: dry Monterey jack cheese, gravenstein apples, crane melon and mission olives. Have you had any, or all of them? The good news is the Slow Food Movement has heightened awareness and these items are making a resurgence.
What are the endangered foods where you live? Check out the Ark of Taste site to find out.
Busy weekend getting those garden beds started? Well, before you plant all those tomatoes, check out the Label GMO’s site. They even print the reminder on seed packets. Pretty scary to think of how many innocent little seeds are genetically modified! We can change it, …
Read my first and second post in this foraging frenzy to catch up! It’s time we took our bounty back to the kitchen to get some food in our bellies. On the menu- miner’s lettuce salad, sauteed fiddlehead ferns, local oyster po’ boy bruschetta, and …
The foraging location was around Gospel Flat Farms in Bolinas.
On a wet and torrential Saturday, I was greeted by cheerful vintage farm equipment …
… and colorful hand-painted signs.
Along the actual farm is the perfect place to forage. Organic farms only, where there aren’t pesticides, contaminant, or runoff in the soil.
Love the misty mountains in the background.
Beautiful chard, garlic, and others.
And a crab pot back at the farm stand, just in case.
Let the foraging begin!
We were getting lonely at our house with only 14 animals- and a mere 10 chickens. So my roommate, Sugar, popped by the feed store and got four new baby chicks! We are rounding out the mix of girls with four new Americanas- they are …
Since it’s my first time in Washington state, I can’t get enough apple trees. My region in Sonoma County specializes in the heirloom Gravenstein, so I have lots of respect for my uncle who had an apple farm for years. When we drive on the …
The thing about oak trees is their fruit produces large husks that frankly, didn’t make me think of a oak tree.
What an easy way for me to look at a tree as if I’m seeing it for the first time. In a way, I am.
It must be fall. There is just something so comforting and cheerful about seeing a red tractor on an old ranch. I would take this over a mustang convertible any day.