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Fall CSA Signup
Last year I signed up for the Fall CSA from Robb Prichard at Oakley Laurel Farm. She is doing the Fall CSA again this year and is looking for folks to sign up for the subscription. Here is her...
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CFSA Farm Tour – Edible Earthscape
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association now runs two farm tours per year, one in the Spring and another in the Fall. The Spring tour has been going on for quite some time, but the Fall tour is in its...
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Sweet potato Crop Mob
The number of landless and itinerant young farmers, working alone or with a few other people, is a pretty large demographic in my world. What is sometimes missing is not only land ownership but the...
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The next one-hundred miles
When I left Wilmington, I generated a new version of the 100 mile diet circle. Gone is the vast expanse of salt water; in is a nice chunk of rural Virginia and a bit of country in South Carolina....
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Industrial carrots and Uncle Television
Last week Kristin and I traveled back to my hometown near Buffalo, NY for Christmas. My brother, his wife Kristen and nine month old Charlie (my first nephew) also made the trip from Fort St. John,...
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One foot in and one foot out
In my line of life you have to embrace some level of hypocrisy. Anarchism is an imperfect ideology, especially in day to day application. In regards to food, we build momentum against industrial...
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Milking Floretta
So we have the eggs part covered. We are consistently finding five to seven eggs per day from our seven laying hens. This is plenty for now; one per person per day. On to the next piece – goat milk....
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What happens when your friends become your food
I spend quite a bit of time with our pigs. Although they are doing work for circleAcres, they could be considered my project. I move their fence and dumpster their food and make sure their house is...
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It takes a village – part three
A few weeks ago I traveled to Tivoli, New York to photograph and participate in a hog butchering workshop presented by The Greenhorns. The workshop was presided over by Bryan Mayer, a butcher with The...
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The eyes of food
I grew up knowing that November meant there would be a deer hanging somewhere in the front yard, probably by the antlers or the neck and probably from the branch of a tree. Or maybe hanging out of the...
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It is just one strawberry
My weekends have evaporated into something that I have yet to name. They have become something that I enjoy – warm, heavy with work and chores, meaningful in the way that objectives are completed. But...
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Bringing in the garlic
Gray and the WWOOFers (Ricardo and Cecelia) harvested several rows of garlic from the back field. The garlic was bunched, labeled and loaded into our neighbors barn for drying. From there, the bulbs...
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The missing blueberries
The secret, abandoned, out-of-the-way blueberry patch that I wrote about three years ago? Yeah, forget about scoring any berries there anymore. The patch has blown up, the word leaked out and spread...
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Apple squeezing
Gray has Full Tilt tattooed on his knuckles. It is appropriate for some of the activities we partake in including a recent round of apple cider pressing. Gray, Noel, and the current WWOOFers Liz and...
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Life in Reverse
We raised turkeys this year. What started in April ended a few weeks ago. We started with 26 birds and ended with 15, the biggest loss of animals we have experienced. The process was long, the costs...
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Manure
Adah and Kathryn have made friends with all the neighbors and have struck deals with many of them on various projects. Up in Jerry’s orchard they are planting popcorn and meal corn. I went up to help...
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Garlic and ginger
Taking care of our 100 foot row of garlic has been of the utmost importance for Kristin and I. Garlic – good garlic – is a needed treasure in our lives. Grocery store garlic is for the birds so to...
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Sour Cherries
The sour cherries are in various stages of ripening, but no matter what color they are they are a bit too sour for me to eat too many at a time. Most of the very ripe (and tastiest) will go to the...
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Garlic Harvest
Early last November, Kristin and I planted out four rows of garlic. Each row was one hundred feet long. Each clove was six inches apart on eight inch rows. For reference and arithmetic, that works out...
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Enough of that crap; let’s make biscuits
One of the best things about moving to Durham has been living in a house with an awesome stove. It is a 1950s era General Electric push button electric with a double oven. I had never even seen a...
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