September is for zucchini recipes... there are a billion of them floating around out there and they basically are all the same... until now... this one - I am telling you - is my all-time favourite... I do not lie... this one is so yummy - I'm not pretending it is healthy - but it... Continue Reading →
city people vs farmers... I can talk about both of these varieties of humans because I was a city girl and now I'm a farmer... so I am well versed in both worlds (according to myself)... city people think they are smarter than farmers... farmers think city people have no common sense... city people like... Continue Reading →
back to school today and harvest is chugging along... although it froze to minus 4 last night and probably ended most of my garden that I've worked so hard on all year... it's 2020 - that's not going to make me cry... (hoping the farmer covered my tomatoes like I reminded him to about 7... Continue Reading →
this farmer bought his first quarter section in 1997... I've been farming with him now since 1999... and he is still smiling when I go for a ride with him in the combine... maybe he's laughing to himself thinking that I am still asking him the same questions as I did back in 1999... I... Continue Reading →
garden carrots - is there anything better? in my opinion only tomatoes... this salad is all about the dressing... and it is a strange dressing so I was nervous to send it out but I wanted to try it myself... this dressing is so delicious... not exactly sure what the farmers thought but I could... Continue Reading →
it is 10:15 pm... my daughter just went to bed and I am faced with folding laundry that I put on my bed to sabotage myself before I go to sleep... I'm not expecting the farmer(s) to be home until midnight and the house is quiet... I have ran out of things to watch on... Continue Reading →
oh my word, here we go... harvest 2020... some absolutely gorgeous hot weather (the farmer told me that it felt like the hottest day he has ever combined on... not fun to work in but great for drying out crops) has us able to get combining the peas we truly feel like a 'family farm'... Continue Reading →
I was walking with a friend the other evening... as we were saying our good-bye's, a strange feeling came over me... I have been close friends with this person for over twenty years now and this was a new feeling I had never experienced around her... I found my arms raising, my heart pulling me... Continue Reading →
goose hunting... the farmer has been up at 5 am a few mornings this week to head out and hide in this little shelter and attempt to shoot the poor geese flying overhead... a rule we have around here is that you must eat what you shoot... so I used my father-in-law's recipe for what... Continue Reading →
i feed a farmer 