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The Fall Garden at Indigo House
Here in our Central Virginia garden & yard I/we are in Fall mode. This is always a combination of cleaning up and closing down along with strategizing on how to keep ongoing projects running despite bad weather. The big thing…
In which I catch up with spring and jump into summer
What a busy spring it has been! Since the last of the chickens went into the freezer the garden, the hoop house, and the barn have taken much of our time. In May we celebrated my husband’s 75th birthday –…
In which with the help of family we build a hoop house
This is what we did last Sunday. It seemed to be the first real day of Spring, bright, warm, and lovely. Kierk, Bjorn and Zoe were the crew while Kip was the foreman and I was the cheering squad. Oh,…
Lamb Chops: from barn to freezer
On Jan 3rd we bought a 125 lb. ram lamb to fatten for the freezer. He had horns and had not been castrated. Of course I named him Lamb Chop lest anyone forget he was intended for food. [Do you…
Tamale class – laughing, making, eating at the Frenchman’s Corner
We made about 100 tamales in all – some to eat during class the rest for the students to take home as proof of their new-found skills! To dress the tamales I made a simple thick sauce of seeded dried…
“Edna Lewis” and “Eat Alabama” food films @ Virginia Film Festival, Nov 1st
On November 1, at the Regal 6 Cinema, the Virginia Film Festival will show two films documenting important aspects of our food culture; “In the Season” the legacy of of Chef Edna Lewis and “Eat Alabama” the search for fresh…