The Store Wars!
Here is Cuke Skywalker: “May the Farm be with you!”
Here is Cuke Skywalker: “May the Farm be with you!”
Do you know where your food comes from? Odds are, even if you live in a food producing area, pretty much everything you eat is coming from thousands of miles away. I live in a farming community growing grains, fruit, and vegetables, yet a trip to the grocery store doesn’t represent this at all. Although…
Here in the Pacific Northwest we had a long, cold, wet spring that just ended a couple days ago, but now we’re joining many of you in the summer heat wave. I don’t know about you, but on days like today, I just don’t want to turn on the stove, let alone the oven! We’ve…
Pickling is a great way to preserve local food for year-round consumption. We’re in the midst of a series about food preservation here on the blog. We’ve taken an overview of freezing, dehydrating, hot water bath canning and pressure canning. The basic concept of pickling is that the preservation is done via salt. Salt replaces…
There’s nothing like a loaf of steaming fresh bread while a person is out camping! July 30-August 1 my husband and I joined many members of his family camping along the east shore of a large lake, with no trees nearby. We’d been here before, so I knew it would be an ideal spot for…
In the early 1960s, the USA placed a trade embargo on Cuba due to the island’s close ties with the Soviet Union. The embargo wasn’t lifted when the Berlin Wall fell and, with it, trade between the USSR and Cuba. 80% of trade ended pretty much overnight. How has Cuba been managing to feed itself…
Green beans are in full swing here in my garden. This is a huge treat to me as I love them raw, sauteed, and in soup. I plant Blue Lake Pole Beans, which were my mom’s favorite beans as well. Thankfully these are open-pollinated. I bought organic seed this year and will (hopefully remember to)…
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This was absolutely well done. I have smiled at this as it brought back memories. My first date with my husband when we were teenagers, we went to see the Star War movie. Lol, but I slept through the whole movie!
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