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Month: February 2013

Winter breakfast: Mmmm vs Grrrr

Sat, Mar 09, 2013Wed, Feb 27, 2013
Supermarket breakfast

Winter breakfast: oatmeal, wild blueberries, banana, maple syrup, cream. Mmmm? Grrrr…. It’s all supermarket stuff, from thousands of miles away, from the bowels of factory farms and processing plants. “Wild blueberries” in President’s Choice designer ziploc bags—what does that even …

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Categories Cooking & Eating

Kombucha watching

Sun, Feb 24, 2013
Kombucha tea mother (SCOBY)

Not much to look at, right? Wrong! I spent a good FIVE MINUTES staring at the kombucha tea mother, gently swirling and undulating right after being placed in its tea-and-sugar bath, the watching-chickens effect. I like the look of the …

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Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food

More books arrive

Fri, Feb 22, 2013
More books arrive

No matter how digital things get, books arriving by mail is always…a treat! I did download the ebook version of The Intelligent Gardener over a week ago, it’s now on laptop and smartphone, but still wanted the hardcopy…and now it’s …

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Categories Farm lab (research!)

Snow still

Thu, Feb 21, 2013
Snow on farm in late February

Still snow. Been trudging rather than shoveling because I keep expecting it to be gone by the end of the day, but no. Instead, it’s been topped up a few times since the fairly major snowstorm two weeks ago. One sure …

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Categories Veggies, Weather

Simple cookery

Tue, Feb 19, 2013Tue, Feb 19, 2013
Turnip (rutabaga) simmering

This is about as simple as it gets this with a stove and a pot: turnips, simmering in water with a little salt. There’s a quite a bit, and I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with it afterwards, besides …

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Categories Cooking & Eating, Veggies
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