What a day!  Ben and our fellow farmer and friend Seth spent the day in Burlington at the Northern Grain Growers Winter Conference.  Ella and I started boiling our sap and took our first bike ride of the year.  We’d planned to boil sap in late March, but the weather has been so warm that ...
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Alright folks, this is your last chance.  If you live in our beautiful Pioneer Valley, we have only a few spots left in the local bread share program.  If you didn’t get a grain share this year, (or if you did but you’re not a bread baker) this is a great way to have delicious, ...
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Here at our house, Ben has been maniacally starting flats of seeds.  He decided that this would be the year to kick the plastic seed-flat habit (gross, breakable, disposable, ugly, totally un-environmental, and completely ubiquitous in the farming world).

So Ben has starting using soil blocks, a la Eliot Coleman (check out his books for instructions ...
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Introducing a brand new instant classic in our house – Mucho Gusto Black Beans and Corn.  This was easy to make, delicious to eat, and as you’ll see, the leftovers can be transformed into another delicious meal really easily.  Many of my favorite things are here – delicious whole grain and beans, foods I can ...
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It must be . . . maple syrup time!  One of my favorite seasonal rites of passage happened today – tapping our maple trees.
Some dear friends, big and small, came to help us today – first you drill your hole a little smaller than the diameter of your spout, and about 1 1/2 inches deep.  ...
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This week, I’m grateful for the restorative powers of a calm day at home.
I’m grateful for this yoga sequence, which rescued me from serious back pain.
Grateful for this quote from Ella, as we were on our way to a grain meeting: “. . . and I’m going to talk about emmer!”
Grateful for this reminder from ...
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This week, our gorgeous seed rack from Seed Savers Exchange arrived at Wheatberry, which means that spring really is almost here!  We are just a little bit excited.  Ok, a lot (Ben started out first flat of onions today!)

Seeds, glorious heirloom seeds.  Many of these varieties are ones we’ll be using at our farm, too, ...
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Hello folks – wanted to share some links to some of our wonderful CSA members, many of whom have blogs where they’ll be posting recipes and photos of the delicious meals they make with their shares!
Leslie Cerier – local cookbook author and chef, holds cooking classes, and has many whole grain recipes in her book ...
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Today, I’m grateful for
all your wonderful emails and comments.
Grateful that I got to visit my grandmother last winter, and that she got a chance to meet Ella before passing away yesterday.  Grateful for her long life and many blessings.

Tiger Beans – saving seed to plant for next year’s shares

snowy fun at the Granary

Our new houseguest ...
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It’s recipe time folks.  Now that most of you who are shareholders have your shares in your kitchens (yay!), I’ll definitely be making more effort to share grain and bean recipes here.  Today, I want to first point you back to this baked beans recipe, which I really recommend for those of you who got ...
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