A friend of mine suggested doing the Whole 30 diet later this spring, and I jumped in, ready to use up a bunch of frozen meat and veggies in February. That gives us a whole month to make some sugar-free staples! Bacon is allowed, but sugar is not, and most…
The first year of the Timber Garden, my parents asked me how many peas I had planted. ‘Oh, almost a full bed,’ I said. They laughed. A month later I was furiously picking peas every day. Peas are prolific, but any pea grower experiences a sense of loss looking at…
Last summer Toby’s brother in Ohio grew a bumper crop of butternut squash. We are talking hundreds of awesome squashes, piled in the basement to cure. When his Dad drove out to visit in January he delivered a giant sack of them, like he was the Santa Claus of squash….
Hoarding food is a fun new activity we’ve gotten into. It started last summer when we took turns obsessively canning, freezing, or drying everything we harvested from the garden. I am embarrassed to say I had never canned anything before the summer of 2015! I had helped family in the…