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Not USDA approved

If you’ve been reading for a while you know that while I think the USDA is a fine organization, I also live to flaunt their rules when it comes to pickling. Now I’ve taken it upon myself to infect my friend Mia (hi Mia!) with this belief, for which I’m sure I will come to [...]

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Time to think about garlic

I just harvested our garlic two weeks ago and it’s already time to start planning for next year’s. I didn’t count or weigh our harvest (my scale went missing when we butchered chickens, I’m hoping to find it tomorrow night) but suffice it to say that we’ll be giving hardneck garlic (it doesn’t keep as [...]

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One Local Summer :: Catch-up Post

See that big 103 over there? [edit: you can't see the Seattle Times image anymore because they took it down, so I did too. Suffice it to say, it was 103F here on Wednesday] Yeah, it’s been a brutal return home from our week in Minnesota. We broke all kinds of records yesterday, and while [...]

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One Local Summer 2009 :: Week #5

I have been remiss in my postings for One Local Summer this year, it’s not that we haven’t been eating locally, more that there just aren’t enough hours in the day right now to experience life and write about it. Plus, my camera lens is slowly dying, choosing to only focus on things far away [...]

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