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Of Wild Mushrooms And Wild Pigs
Hericium erinaceus (Lions Mane mushroom) December is one of my favorite months here along the Mexican border. The parched land starts to soften and green with the nourishment of some much-needed rain,...
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Rhubarb, Vanilla and Blood Orange Jam
Two things have revolutionized canning for me recently. The first is the addition of my new steam canner. It takes a lot less water, heating times are faster and it is MUCH easier to deal with. The...
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The Beautiful But Under-Rated Root Vegetable
Rutabagas, Carrots and Turnips Root vegetables are among the most easily grown, beautiful, and delicious vegetables there are, and yet they are often very misunderstood. It doesn’t help that the ones I...
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Composting With Chickens: Putting Your Chickens To Work
Why everyone doesn’t have chickens, I don’t know. Chickens are some of the easiest animal to keep and they are incredibly useful. Besides supplying eggs, they eat a ton of bugs, provide valuable...
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Violet de Provence Artichokes
For the first time this year we are growing the beautiful French heirloom artichoke, Violet de Provence. The plants are large and very thorny, making picking these beauties quite a challenge. The...
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The Elegant Eggplant
A lot of people really think they don’t like eggplant. They have either never had them cooked correctly, or are still harboring a grudge against them from childhood and as adults are unwilling to give...
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This Is Farm To Table.
Great little write up about us by Pete’s Paleo. It’s been fun working with these guys. They are always game to cook up whatever I throw their way. http://petespaleo.com/blog/farm-table/
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Bountiful Berries
If there is one thing that I look forward to all year it is fresh berries. We are in the height of berry season right now and my hands are permanently stained, my arms are scratched, our freezer is...
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September Garden
September is a crazy busy time around here. The summer vegetables are producing full force and need major picking every day. The amount of squash, zucchini, eggplant, raspberries an tomatoes that I...
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Homemade Tomato Chips With Sea Salt & Basil
I have been working for a while now on buying less from the grocery store. Everywhere I look I am surrounded by an abundance of food. Baskets of tomatoes and squash sit on my counters and floors, basil...
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Farmer Veteran Coalition Homegrown By Heroes Label
We have just finished our certification with the Farmer Veteran Coalition and are really excited about becoming part of the growing movement to help get more veterans into agriculture. This is an...
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BEST WILD BOAR BURGERS
WILD BOAR BURGERS 4 LBS GROUND WILD BOAR 4 EGGS 2 to 4 CLOVES CHOPPED GARLIC 1.5 TABLESPOONS OF LAWRY’S SEASONED SALT 2 TABLESPOONS WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE 1/3 CUP OF YOUR FAVORITE BBQ SAUCE This is...
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Farm To Table Dinner. Easier Than You Think.
At the end of a long hard day of farm work and kids, with a deployed husband and everything on my shoulders, the last thing I want is to spend an hour cooking dinner. So instead I yank a bunch of baby...
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Why I Eat My Kale With Aphids And Other True Things.
We would love to thank our CSA members who have faithfully stood by us these last few years as we have dealt with having and raising small children, busy work schedules, deployments and droughts. We...
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Storm
Storm turns four-years-old today. life without her seems a distant memory, some other world that never really belonged to me because it was lacking her. She is unruly, fierce and wild. She argues and...
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Spring Farm Update
We’ve been having an incredibly busy spring around here so I’ve really been slacking on keeping up with this blog. The good news is farming is going great! We have lots of new growing areas, our soil...
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The Wild Side Of Tomatoes
The next time you go to buy a tomato at the grocery store, remember that a perfectly round, slightly reddish tomato is boring. Live on the wild side and eat good tomatoes. Each one is a jewel filled...
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October Skys
October skies and the cooling weather are bringing new energy to our farm. The heat and drought slowly suck the life out of everything but Fall brings a fresh vigorous feeling. Plants are getting...
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Earth Tones Dent Corn
Here’s a little picture show of the stunning Earth Tones Dent Corn we grew this year. It is an open-pollinated field corn used for both decoration and grinding into cornmeal and flour. The ears were...
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The California Drought And How We Plan To Keep On Farming
We have been working a lot on building soil fertility lately. We live in a very arid region, right on the Mexico border in the mountains of Southern California. Water is a serious issue here. We are in...
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