We eat tacos around here all of the time. We eat a lot of bean tacos, quite a few meat tacos, and a few egg tacos when the mood strikes. There is just no reason, in my opinion, not to eat tacos just about every day. I probably would have said that even before we…
We harvested the fava bean patch in its entirety in order to make way for 80-some sweet potato slips. We’ve eaten a few more meals off of those and the rest are in the solar dehydrator to become seed for this fall. There are summer squash from the chicken field, summer squash from our neighbors,…
This is the first year we’ve grown fava beans (also known as broad beans). They overwinter here in our warmer climate and we have been nothing but happy with this new addition to the homestead. We ate a lot of the fava bean leaves over the winter in salads and soups. Once spring weather came…
Do you know that some of the longest-living, degenerative disease-free cultures eat beans and tortillas as a staple in their diet? Staple as in they eat them pretty much every day. I came across this little tidbit recently in the instagram feed of the Bluzone Book. Now, I’m pretty sure their black beans are organic…
