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Half-Hog Butchery with Leni at Indigo House: Saturday, Jan 18, 2020

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Indigo House History Dinners Oct-Nov-Dec schedule is up!

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Yes, It’s Been Quite A While . . .

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  • Newly revised and updated schedule for YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S KITCHEN COOKING CLASSES; July and August 2012

    I hope I haven’t made signing up for my classes this season confusing!  I’ve updated everything today so I hope you will find it helpful.

    June 23, 2012
  • Piglets, Chicks, and Garden

    I’m enjoying every minute of my retirement!  I still get up at the same time but it is so great not to have to go somewhere!  In my jammies I take my coffee out in the yard, stroll around, check…

    June 21, 2012
  • The Phishing problem is corrected!

    It’s great to be back after an incident of phishing shut me down!  I better understand now why we have to be so careful and why we/I must take advantage of the security strategies available.

    June 21, 2012
  • The 50 new Buff Orpington chicks arrived this morning from the hatchery!

    I love the arrival of the new chicks.  We get the early morning call from our local post office “we have a box of chicks for you!” I check that the brooder space is ready; feeders full, waterer full, heat…

    June 4, 2012
  • Despite the storms our garden and animals are sprouting and growing and laying

    The stormy events of the past several days have made the dog crazy!  Especially the lightning!  But the hens, the pigs and the garden seem to just continue doing what they do best; grow and lay eggs!     But…

    June 2, 2012
  • We got pigs!

    Old farmer’s never die; 30 years after leaving our South Dakota farm we once more have pigs.  The fifty new chicks (layers and fryers) arrive in two weeks so by the end of June we will be officially farmers again.…

    May 23, 2012
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Dr. Leni Sorensen Phd

I cook, I teach, I garden, I feed animals. I write, I research, I lecture, I demonstrate. My passion is emphatically about food; food in early America, food in contemporary America, food among the urban poor, food from small sustainable farms, food cooked by novices, food cooked by chefs.

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