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Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half t

Endive is good late crop, not only for farmers, but also for kitchens. Getting ready for the first frost in the fall is always a rush. All those peppers and tomatoes still on the vine! All that heavy squash to lug into the barn! Any crop you can leave in the field and not even think about is like gold in the bank. Endive is cold hardy, and even if the outside leaves get discolored from freezing or desiccated from wind, inside there is still a beautiful beating heart waiting t

This will be a hands-on workshop, carrying and stacking logs, drilling holes, inoculating with spores mixed in sawdust. We will examine and select sites, tree species, and log configurations. April 2026: Date TBD

Originally composed in the oral poetic traditions in Ionia, the westernmost part of what is now Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Agean Sea. It follows the adventures and misadventures of Odysseus (also known as Ulysses in Latin). Seminars at Philosophy Farm will be a standard part of weekend and weeklong work-learn events, combining physical work in the mornings with readings and discussions in the afternoons. Preparing and sharing farm food in the style of our Eat Like Be

The farm has been in Ben's family since 1971. Ben spent his teen years here, growing organic vegetables, making compost piles, and tending the woods. We've named next summer's "encampment" phase Bogworts, in honor of the many species of wild blueberries that grow in the woods and wetlands on the farm and throughout the watershed we're part of. Bogwort is a common name for any wild blueberry in England. We are calling it an encampment because we don't have a bunkhouse (yet?) f

Most of the keepers we’ve been selling at the coop over the winter came from two Longmont Farms: Rough & Ready Farm and Sunflower Farm ....

The round-bottomed wife tries to eat local as much as possible but at this time of year she begs for big earthenware bowls of Arizona...

We meet people on market days that don’t eat lamb because they think lambs are babies. “Baby lambs” are the young animals they are...

In case of emergency, do not break glass! The round-bottomed wife is a bit of a chipmunk. Hearty food in small bundles disappear into her...

Sometime in early February, spring fever sets in. The sun-deprived wife pesters me to go out and hunt around between retreating patches...

To relax in the evening, my wife watches films and TV series on her France channel – that is, when she’s not watching her German,...

Soma (pronounced “Shoma”, it’s a Hungarian name) wanted to smoke a Thor’s Hammer, which is a specially prepared beef shank. That’s because we were selling them at the markets all summer, telling our customers “It’s a novelty cut. Good in the smoker.” What Frank said. But we’d never actually smoked one. As we got down to the last Hammer in the freezer this fall, I could see Soma had his eye on it. Bone-in cuts often get a hole in the plastic, breaking the vacuum seal. He waite

Having grown up in New England, I remember making candy coated apples using a sticky caramel sauce. Worse, I recall eating store-bought...

A few years back, we held a Valentine’s party where we invited guests to bring red food. Our contribution was the main dish, a set of...

This time of year, we remember a tiny bodega, with one forlorn window on the street. Visible in the window was an electric crock pot with...

Around our house, I am the pie-crust maker. We make our crusts out of organic white rice flour. Mary cannot have gluten and I can't...

Some days I just don’t plan. Then, ravenous, I have to do food, fast. Last night I was lucky. I found ground meat thawing in the fridge....

The round-bottomed wife has been irritable for days. She got a project in her teeth like a puppy with a juicy marrow bone, only...

My estimable, round-bottomed wife is a bit of a kitchen witch. She keeps a half dozen large pots busy with all manner of things. Today,...

Originally published 31 October, 2024 My neighbor's dad knows many good streams here along the continental divide. He catches trout. When...