In my humble opinion, of course.  Truthfully, I am a pie lover, and I have eaten and baked many a pie.  I think I found, at last, my holy grail of squash pies, and Zillah so nicely asked for the recipe a while back, so here it is.
The first thing to note is that this ...
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Here in our little world it’s a time of heavy construction, both inside and out. The bakery got some lovely renovations this week (more customer space! Photos soon at the spiffy new Wheatberry site, I promise), that wall we knocked down finally got finished up with some gorgeous timber from our land, and the ...
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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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Signs of spring. Rain, rain, and rain, bringing on mud season – hope you’re ready!  (And goodbye, clean kitchen floor.)

Six eggs from six chickens, two days in a row.  I had to make cheesecake (Keller’s, from Ad Hoc.  It was divine, of course.)

A dog who comes in from a night on wandering, reeking of ...
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(sausage gravy and pumpkin biscuits – when I was pregnant my idea of breakfast was, apparently, meat meat and more meat)
After I started planning our dinners last winter, I was really excited about how well it went. How much calm it brought to my life. (Seriously, every bit helps!) So over the ...
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More favorites from here. Outside, winter doesn’t seem to know yet that its last days are here. The freezing rain and mud puddles have their own beauty, as my little girl in rain boots would happily tell you. Inside, I finished this applique for our down comforter cover.  I cut out the pieces ...
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Malting barley to brew our first batch of beer (no, this isn’t barley we grew – I knew you’d ask – but we do have some planted, so perhaps next year we’ll have homegrown homebrew!)

Insulating, insulating, insulating. (Yes, that’s wool I’m stuffing into the crack, and we’re covering it with caulk.) Our little helper ...
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Every now and again, I like to make my weekly menu from a single cookbook. (You may remember last winter’s week of Ad Hoc – oh so yummy). Of course, you can’t do this with just any ol’ cookbook. I picked up a used copy of Cooking from Quilt Country at our ...
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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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Here in New England, we’re having a snow day!  I’m hoping for lots of playing in the snow outside, and lots of knitting inside.  Nothing like a blizzard to make you feel woefully unprepared with handknit goodness.  Hoping you all had a wonderful holiday, and are enjoying this special quiet time before the new year ...
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