Grateful that even though I rarely make it to a yoga class these days, I sometimes get to practice with my favorite partner. Grateful and excited about some upcoming menu additions at Wheatberry. I’m grateful that Ella has returned to a normal sleeping schedule (and grateful to have survived, mostly gracefully, a week of 11 ...
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“I knew it”, you’re thinking,” She’s finally cracked.  Now this crazy hippie want us to go out to the front lawn like rabbits and eat grass.” Never fear, friends, I mean eat grass (and sunlight!) through the meat and dairy products you consume.  Meaning, make sure those animals ate grass, not corn and other industrial ...
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Today – cold, raining.  November weather at last.  Everyone cranky, scrambling to write our NE SARE grant before deadline, preparing for a crazy frenzy of Thanksgiving baking tomorrow (cranberry pecan bread made with local wheat! pies!) , meetings, cleaning grain with some wonderful help down at the Granary.  Or rather, sitting in the car, nursing ...
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Bring on the gratitude, I say. I wanted to take a moment to say how I got started with gratitude Friday, since a few of you have asked.  Last winter, during a particularly rough patch with Ella, I read an article in the wonderful Yoga Journal about keeping a gratitude journal as a way to ...
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Whew! Well, this past two weeks have been quite, um, interesting, on all fronts.  Home, bakery, Pioneer Valley Heritage Grain, there have been lots of ups and downs.  You, too? I’ve been loving doing the Ten Steps posts, and all the amazing feedback, but I’m going to take a little break before moving on to ...
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Here in the Pioneer Valley, we are blessed with CISA, and their tremendously successful “Be  a Local Hero” campaign, which has brought a lot of attention to buying local foods.  At Wheatberry, we’re one of a handful of food businesses that really focuses on serving fresh foods, bought from local farms (almost always organic farms, ...
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Grow some food.  For us, this has been so so important.  It’s hard to really explain in words the sensory pleasure of starting seeds, watching sprouts grow, setting out plants in the spring, tending them, and then harvesting and eating them.  To grow your own food is one of life’s greatest luxuries, and it’s sad ...
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the whole saving the planet, feed the world thing our Top 10 Steps Oh yeah, that project.  Photos of crafts and our sweet daughter and parties aside, this is what keeps us going.  Some of your recent comments and emails have got me thinking – how much do people really know about what we do?  ...
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Yesterday we threw a farewell party for our employee Kate, who had been a steady, amazing presence at Wheatberry for two rollercoaster years.  As a thank you, we had a potluck with some friends and current staff, and I added the above embroidery to the apron I made her last spring.  I did the embroidery ...
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her style, and this new skirt, upcycled from a vintage flannel sheet and a ribbon from a present rutubagas bigger than Ella’s head our beautiful Valley icy fingers from harvesting frosty lettuce for the bakery our animals warmth amidst the chill and tomorrow, rest, and a party to say farewell to a much beloved employee, ...
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