http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:40:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone - thank you so much for your kind words and wishes for us and Ella.  I really, deeply appreciate it.  I thought I'd do a little bit of gratitude today, with some photos of some of the things making me smile these days (I am feeling much better). And ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/15/monday-gratitude-and-a-menu/ Ok - onward!  Our friends over at Storey Publishing also sent this book our way.  Even though I'm not thinking about selling handmade goods at the moment, it was a total pleasure to read.  A lot of it is about the creative process, photography, and blogging, and I got some ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/12/book-giveaway-the-handmade-marketplace/ I had an entirely different post planned out for today, talking about the joys of knitting.  But.  I am really struggling with gratitude this week.  Among other stresses, we found out yesterday (after over a year of trying to find a dentist to work with us) that our daughter needs ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/12/gratitude-friday-a-new-mantra-or-two/ A little of this . . . And stitches cast on for my first sweater for myself (the Shalom cardigan).Ben's World's Warmest Hat is halfway done (he tried mine on and had to have one of his own), and Ella's Provence sweater got finished before all the snow melted - hooray!  ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/10/wip/ 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 ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/09/barley-carrot-kugel-recipe/ Well, in truth, with all this unseasonal (and freaky but beautiful) warmth, we're sort of simultaneously in hunger moon and sap moon right now.  A little tired of the same root veggies perhaps, but when I think about the fact that usually this was the starving time - when winter ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/08/monday-night-menu-from-the-hunger-moon-kitchen/ 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 ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/07/local-bread-shares/ This week, I'd like to take a few moments to be grateful for a daughter who's two and a half.  There's plenty of challenges at each age to be sure, and it is so easy to wish for things they did when they were smaller, or all the things they ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/04/gratitude-friday-two-and-a-half/ Do you see how tantalizingly close this sweater is?  Must. finish. Even though truly warm weather is a ways off, and I'll probably still be wearing the occasional sweater in May, my little polar bear was already walking around in short sleeves yesterday. And also, some new words.  Definitely in progress, but ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/03/wip-some-stitches-some-words/ Or at least, my dishes and laundry. First, let's back up to last month's pledge to say goodbye to the grocery store.   I was definitely tempted a few time, but once my mind accepted that there was not going to be any grocery trips this month, I didn't really think ... http://www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire/2010/03/02/one-small-change-march-the-world-washed-by-hand/