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It's all in your perspective 8 Sep 2012 | 02:36 am
I thought these two blog posts were really funny, and accurate in their very different ways. First, a discussion of driving from a resident of Massachusetts: The Most Interesting Driver in the World...
A quartersawn oak kitchen 3 Aug 2012 | 07:14 am
Earlier this week Jack and I headed up to Bath to take care of a few final details at a job site from this past year, and also take photos now that everything has been painted and the tile work comple...
The harsh -- but true -- realities of eating meat 30 Jul 2012 | 08:02 am
Above you can see a photo of one of our 165+ adolescent chickens. The current team member in charge of the chickers this week flagged this one as a possible victim two days ago, with a slice under its...
Blueberries for winter 29 Jul 2012 | 11:32 pm
Yesterday the four of us went to a local highbush blueberry farm and picked blueberries for an hour or two. This is something we do every year, harvesting 20-30 quarts of highbush blueberries and then...
Undomesticated fowl 29 Jul 2012 | 08:46 pm
Here's a picture of some of the local, undomesticated fowl in our neighborhood. We often see flocks of wild turkeys meandering about in our fields and woods. Yesterday morning I watched a flock of thr...
Fowl enthusiasm 13 Jul 2012 | 07:41 am
Yesterday morning our neighborhood Broiler Chicken Team brought two-thirds of our young chickens out into two of our three field pens. We're repeating the same broiler chicken project we've done for f...
Barley and sausage chili 4 Jul 2012 | 07:28 am
Here's a shot of the dinner I made tonight, sausage and barley chili. I've made chili with sausage from our half-pig many time before, but just as I started preparing dinner tonight I realized I didn'...
Food, circa 1917 27 Jun 2012 | 07:31 am
I saw this on Facebook today and wanted to re-post. The source there footnotes it as "c.1917 from US Food Administration by artist Frederic G. Cooper." I can't verify but I'll assume it's accurate. Al...
When the family's away... 25 Jun 2012 | 07:36 am
...the chef will play! Okay, okay, I'm hardly a chef, but at least it rhymes. J is off to Ohio with the kids to visit with the grandparents for a few weeks (J'll be working from her company's Ohio o.....
The artistry of a music video (no, really!) 12 Jun 2012 | 09:58 am
The photo to the right showed up in my Facebook feed this weekend, and like many of the photos from "Face Your Farmer," I loved it and wanted to share it with my friends. It's a clever play on the lyr...
