{Once again, Jesse Frost of Rough Draft Farmstead knocks it out of the park. He has demystified the process of making mead naturally. I just bottled some homemade wine that I made following his easy, natural wine recipe—if I can do this, anybody can! I can’t wait to try this recipe for mead—one of the [...]
Breakfast is admittedly not my favorite meal of the day. It’s not really the cooking or eating, but the thought of starting out my day having to do dishes. I find that very discouraging, don’t you? While our daily breakfast fare is usually Sweetgrass Granola or a simple fried egg, on the weekends, I do [...]
One of the biggest challenges to eating seasonally and locally is knowing when certain items are available. After all, if you aren’t actively growing your food, how are you supposed to know when the watermelons are ripe? Especially with the crazy weather we’ve had this year, where many foods have ripened weeks, if not months, [...]
{This is the first farm in my Young Farmers series. You may want to read the intro post if you missed it.} For many of us, sustainability has come about gradually in our personal lives. Slowly but surely, something awakened inside us, revealing to us how our choices (both personally and collectively as a culture) [...]
Lavender is one of those herbs that I don’t really incorporate enough in the culinary sense. But I’ve been working on this recipe and tweaking it a bit, and I am now in love. This is the perfect thing to bring along to Fourth of July barbecues and cookouts! (Granted, it may also be the [...]
