Happy Fall everyone! Well, it’s a bit late, but I thought I’d share our September menu. In many ways, I’m working to simplify life here at home, getting ready for baby to arrive this winter. For more than a year now, I’ve been making weekly menus, but I decided it was time to take the ...
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Hi everyone, thanks again for coming along for a week in our life.  Whew, that was intense!  It was very unusual for me to be on the computer every night uploading photos, and I must say I’ll be glad to take a little break from that.  But it was also really fun, and helped me ...
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Sometimes, after making hundreds of tomato sandwiches and salads, and putting up dozens of quarts of tomatoes for the winter, you come home to kitchen counters filled with this. And this. Over 100 pounds of tomatoes, some to be used right away (there’s Roasted Heirloom Tomato Soup at Wheatberry, folks!), the rest to be sorted ...
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Happy Lamas (Harvest Festival) everyone! This weekend brought some serious harvest bounty from farms here in our blessed Valley.  Ella and I managed to drive an hour out to Benson Place in Heath to pick up our wild blueberries, and on the way we stopped at the Greenfield Farmer’s Market.  We got ripe peaches, the ...
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I drove slowly , heart in my throat, Ella in the backseat, as Ben and Cole made their way through the center of our town to our bean field on the riding cultivator for the first time. And then they, with our amazing friend and farming partner Seth, proceeded to rock the field, weeding and ...
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Now that you have your delicious leftovers from yesterday’s Mucho Gusto Black Beans and Corn, you can make this simple, hearty Tamale Pie.  This idea is from Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way by Lorna Sass (her Masa-Harina Beef Casserole), but you’ll see that I have changed it quite a bit.  At our house, we ...
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