All photos from our own homestead. There are a group of homesteaders – in addition those in our own community, of course – whose agrarian pursuits I follow online. They are years – decades even – ahead of us. They are growing most of their own food, raising much of their fat and animal needs,…
The other night I was staring at what grocery store produce we had left and it wasn’t much. Since we moved off-grid and ditched the big ‘ol refrigerator, keeping enough produce on hand has been an ongoing challenge. We were spoiled before, you see, with big refrigerators and local weekly farmers markets and CSAs and…
I have always found baking to be a wonderful way to simultaneously explore my interests in science and feeding others. Cooking might be my first passion, with its flexibility and lack of rules. But baking… baking sans recipe takes the willingness to fail openly and miserably as well as a bit of a scientific hypothesis…
