Our Share of the Harvest

My birthday was last week and Greg had planned an awesome trip to Virgina wine country for 2 relaxing days in a hotel complete with spa treatments for me, nice dinner reservations and successive tasting tours at 3 nearby wineries.  Sounds like a blissful and romantic way to forget about welcome turning 30, right? Until [...]

I’m seriously not trying to be such a copycat blogger this month but this is a time of year when all bloggers are speaking my language–healthy foods made with seasonal ingredients that are tasty and approachable enough to make for a weeknight dinner.  When you keep finding meals that seem delicious, healthy, comforting and using [...]

Here’s one of the realities of farming that I’m sure you can all relate to: sometimes, shit happens.  No, I don’t mean that like some clever joke for manure.  I mean, sometimes crazy stuff goes down and you have to deal with it. Last season, my uncle, like so many other farmers, planted rows of [...]

  Before I launch into this, let me say that I know how snotty this sounds.  I do, really, but here it goes. Sometimes, I think I’m going pull an optical muscle with all the eye-rolling I do at the recipes people post on Pinterest.  Sometimes people (especially other bloggers) pin beautiful, inventive, delicious-sounding recipes [...]

Ok, here’s another recipe to ease you into your New Year diet.  Clearly this is not celery sticks and air but it’s the kind of recipe that gets you moving toward a healthier, more vegetable-filled lifestyle without making you miserable and having you hating your new life from the get-go.  Plus, it makes use of [...]