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A Video!

Hello everyone, and Happy Spring! Today, we have a video that shows our farm and bakery, put together by our friend and neighbor Shalini Bahl.
We talk about everything from using draft horses, the real cost of food, and how to make your love visible.
Enjoy!
AWEtv from Seed to Scone with Adrie Lester of Wheatberry Cafe ...
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Winter Fare

On Saturday, we got up extra early and loaded both bread decks full of Local Loaf goodness. We filled our racks with cookies, scones, and local bran muffins, and drove with many helpers to enter the fray at the Northampton Winter Fare, put together by CISA. We had a 2010 grain share on ...
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Whole Grain Weekends – Chicken Spelt Soup

Welcome back to Whole Grain Weekends, a space to share and explore cooking with whole grains!  Whole Grain Weekends will be happening in this space the first and third weekends of the month.  I’m going to post a recipe and photos, and have a space below where I will link to all of your ...
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Whole Grain Weekends – Join Me!

Hello everyone!  I’m really excited to start a new tradition here, and I hope you may be inspired to join us.  Whole Grain Weekends will be happening in this space the first and third weekends of the month.  I’m going to post a recipe and photos, and have a space below where I will link ...
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Ten Thousand Pounds

Between this weekend’s distribution and the previous one, we moved Ten Thousand Pounds of local, organically grown grains into the eager hands of our CSA members.  There were over 200 people in my living room and kitchen Saturday afternoon scooping their shares, there were five fantastic folks helping us make it all possible, and one ...
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Pioneer Valley Heritage Grain – First Distribution 2010


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WIP – knitting and wheat

Simple Shawl with undyed wool from Cranberry Moon Farm.

Fan and Feather Shawl from the book Folk Shawls, with luxurious lambs wool from Barberic Farm (handspun “in the grease”).

Two Socks at once from Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks.
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New to me – embroidery (it will be a clock!) from Meg’s awesome book Sew Liberated.

Getting all our grain trials labeled ...
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Gratitude Friday – Raising the Roof

Last spring, we started building the wall . . .

Today, we erected the frame while Cole looked on in amusement and nervousness,

and finished putting the roof on just minutes before the rains came pouring down onto the new dried bean harvest.  Hooray!

So much gratitude for all the crew who helped, the incredible Seth who surprised ...
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Emmer with Basil Cream Sauce

After I mentioned this combination last week, I made it again for family this weekend, and decided that I am officially obsessed with this combination.  Which means that I really need to share the recipe with you.
First, I should confess that I’m not a huge basil lover.  It’s a bit licoricey for me, but we ...
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Gratitude Friday -the Harvest

Head on over to localgrain.org to see what we’re grateful for this week – the beginning of the bean harvest!