A couple of years ago, members of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations were brainstorming ways to help millions of hungry people get more decent food, and […]
What We’re Eating: Beans and Greens
I started eating beans like thirty years ago because this girl served lentils and rice for dinner one night, and I wanted her to like me, so I started making […]
About Eating Plants
This winter we farmers have been reading a book with a catchy title: How Not to Die, by Michael Greger, M.D. This excerpt from the Preface shows why the book […]
Making Albariño
If the complicated world of wine, with its weirdly-named varietals and strange descriptions — like, how can wine be dry? or have a nose? — has ever mystified you, consider […]
Hailey’s Bean Salad
The bean salad we enjoyed at Meredith’s going away party came from a book called Plant Pure Nation, which is the practical companion to a film detailing what happened to people […]
Farm Table in Winter
Seems like a cosmic lesson: I’ve just fallen in love with eating food right out of the ground — that broccoli! those beets! — and now there isn’t anymore? Seasonalism […]
So long, Farmhands
Kia Ora, as we say in Maori — meaning ‘Be well and healthy.’ We being me and the New Zealanders I’ll be meeting soon. Some of you may recognize my […]
Sit Stay Training Featured at Dog Days Festival
My dogs don’t follow instructions. They’re smart guys who understand English pretty well, but they generally do what pleases them, not what pleases me. When I tell them to get […]
Leesburg Chiropractic Pursues Total Wellness
When I visited Leesburg Chiropractic last week, Dr. Sampson gave me company pen that looked like it had been slammed in a drawer. Between the words “Leesburg” and “Chiropractic”, the […]
GCF Offers Heritage Breeds from Spring House Farm
It was feeding time when I arrived at Spring House Farm for a visit, so I put on a pair of muck boots and followed Andrew Crush to the breakfast […]