This article explains how to dig razor clams and how to clean razor clams. I’ve also included a recipe for our favorite way to eat them, fried! Razor clams are one of those foods that is so delicious it makes you unable to do anything but mumble about how delicious Read more…
Meat from grassfed and pastured animals can get tough and dry if cooked like conventional meat. In this article I’ll explain why there’s a difference and how you can keep your grassfed and pastured meat from being tough and dry. Thinking of the sleepy peeping of chicks from the back Read more…
It’s that amazing time of year where the seed catalogs come pouring in and I dream about the garden. Okay, Its more like I obsess about the garden. How many square feet can I plant? How much and what kind of seed do we need? What do we have room Read more…
Hello my lovely folks, I hope you all had an excellent New Years, Christmas, Thanksgiving and anything else you celebrated. It’s been quieter than normal around here; our life on the other hand has been some form of chaos for the last six months. I thought it was high time Read more…
This raw cranberry relish is sweetened to taste. The whole lemons, limes and oranges mellow and sweeten as they soak up the sugar but keep the relish bright. Raw cranberry relish is simple, great to make ahead and gets better with age. Make a batch of raw cranberry relish for Read more…
I’ve been sketching farms for as long as I can remember; stacks of fences, chicken coops, barns, gardens and houses. I’ve written intricate plans for buying land and building farms, I have thousands of idea to make the place pay for its self. I came up with most of Read more…
This is the hardest time of year for me. It’s a time to hold our breath, in between winter and spring, with long dark days. It’s so easy to drift off the path we laid for our self when the sun was bright and the grass green. This is the Read more…
My grandma tells stories of the family dipping a literal bathtub worth of smelt and dip nets so full they broke when pulled from the water wrong. I had never had the opportunity to harvest smelt before but with her stories of a bountiful and delicious harvest I jumped at Read more…
When I was finally old enough to realize books were awesome I become a veracious reader. I loved anything inspiring and I especially loved books about animals and how different cultures lived. The Little House on the Prairie® book series is one of my favorites and one of the first Read more…
Homemade lacto-fermented ketchup is one of the easiest things to make! If you can taste and stir, you can make this. I’ve always had a lackluster relationship with ketchup. I liked it, sometimes, but it was always so sweet and one dimensional that I could never really get excited about Read more…