My farmer fashionista
My little thrift store diva ….you can never look too good for farm work.
View ArticleNormal: A Drama
NORMAL: ACT I, SCENE I: I don’t play the part of “normal mom” very well, nor do I play it very often. Saoirse and Ula have been trained to sleep in, to afford me as many quiet pre-dawn silent...
View ArticleBook Deadline!
Thanks to everyone who helped make The Grassfed Gourmet the best selling sustainable meat cookbook in the country. After 10 years, it is time to release a new edition…but I have to finish the updates...
View ArticleCurried Cashew-Chicken Salad with Raisins and Cranberries
Ready for a garden party? Since we learned how to make real mayonnaise last week, here’s a great way to put that new skill to use for a refreshing moment out on the patio. This is a delicious use of...
View ArticleThe College Question
If I don’t send my children to college, am I destroying their future? Or safeguarding a legacy? CHARLIE (speaking to his father): But what if I don’t want to make shoes? MR. PRICE: You’re a right...
View ArticleCreamy Wild Ramp and Potato Soup
The ground in the woods is still brown with last year’s leaves, but here and there, along the creek beds, the girls and I find wide swaths of wild ramps, just begging for a spring harvest. We’ve been...
View ArticleThe Responsiveness Badge
Facebook has a new “responsiveness badge.” The other business owners in my entrepreneurship night class are talking about it. To earn it, page admins must respond to 90% of messages within fifteen...
View ArticleTwo Year Old Egg Salad
“Why haven’t you gone to bed yet?” Bob scolds me from the kitchen as though I were one of the kids. I should have gone to sleep two hours ago. I’m trying to understand the price of an egg salad...
View ArticleBedding Special: Free Wool Pillow
Okay, this is the biggest offer we’re making this year. We love our wool comforters and pillows, and we think you will, too. So to get you try try ’em out, when you order one wool comforter of any...
View ArticleThe Learning Curtain
“I’m just sick of learning. I’ve learned enough. There’s no way I’m going to college.” “Or would you rather be a mule?” I sing the refrain to the old song quietly as I wipe down the kitchen counters...
View ArticleWould you like to be our neighbor?
As long-time readers are aware, we’ve tried for many years to obtain the extra land we needed to secure our grass-farming future at Sap Bush Hollow Farm. Last year, a neighbor from whom we’ve rented...
View ArticleSap Bush Cafe Brunch Menu Aug 19-20 2017
So many great vegetables to put on a plate, so much beautiful meat… This week’s Hearthside Special: Grilled Steak Salad Marinated grassfed Sap Bush Steak, grilled and served chilled with NYS Extra...
View ArticleHearthside Brunch menu change Dec 9, 9-12
Our handmade sweet Italian sausage roasted over local Northern Spy apples, served up with Barbers’ butternut squash smashed with Cotton Hill Creamery goat cheese. Comes with a slice of homemade pie...
View ArticleSap Bush Cafe Hearthside Brunch Sat, Dec. 23, 9-12
The girls and I have been working like mad this past week to prepare the holiday puddings and put them away to chill and grow flavorful. And this week, I’ll be making the egg nog. This is the weekend...
View ArticleBacon end cuts on sale this week! (Beef short ribs, too!)
Folks, every time Bob slices Dad’s home-smoked bacon, he puts aside the end cuts, those fattier pieces that don’t make up that gorgeous streaky bacon so many of you pine after. These end cuts don’t...
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