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This year… A Virtual Juneteenth at Montpelier
Juneteenth became a state holiday in Texas in 1980, and a number of other states subsequently followed suit. It is the oldest known celebration honoring the end of slavery in the United States. When I was growing up in immediately…
Join me on my new adventure
Welcome to the new Indigo House website. I am a very happy camper! The time has come share my usual hands-on, in-person cookery, gardening, and animal raising knowledge in new ways. Thanks to the endless hours spent by Kierk, my…
Chicken shares at Indigo House
Here at Indigo House I’m going back to being a chicken farmer! I’m starting with a batch of 75 Jumbo Cross Rock meat bird chicks. We have had nothing but delicious success with this variety of broiler since we first…
“It Takes a World to Make a Meal: The Human Costs of Feeding Virginia’s Elites”, a talk at VCU
On Wednesday Feb 5 I gave a talk “It Takes a World to Make a Meal: The Human Costs of Feeding Virginia’s Elites.” at the VCU Tompkins-McCaw Library for Health Sciences in Richmond in conjunction with the traveling National Library…
The Challenge of Cooking Over Fire
Fires and hearths are what I’m thinking about this week as I put together my talk for the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello on Sept 21st! …
In which a tree falls on the barn
Here in my neck of the Virginia woods the rain has been far more than plentiful over the summer. The rain soaks the soil and the least wind drops any dead tree standing. In my case that means the…
