Pears!

I got a call yesterday from H’s son-in-law to go out to a super-secret location and pick pears.  We didn’t have to do much picking–the hard freeze dropped them all to the ground.  Still, they were in great shape, and I ended up with somewhere between thirty and forty pounds of them, by my hefting [...]

Some Very Good Reasons to Vote Obama/Biden

1. Because you like women, and you don’t think they deserve to pay for their own rape kits or be called nasty names over a simple joke.
2. Because you don’t want to support the candidate Al Qaeda supports.
3. Because you want the rest of the world to feel they are able to work with us.
4. [...]

Harvest Soup Supper this Saturday!

With chilly fall weather coming up quicker than the leaves are coming down, it’s time to get together and let the friends and vendors of the Vermillion Area Farmers Market cook for you!
Saturday, November 1st  from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the 4-H/Extension Building, 515 High Street in Vermillion we’ll be cooking up a variety of soups [...]

Ten Better Things for South Dakotans to Spend Their Tax Dollars on Besides a Supreme Court Challenge of Roe v. Wade

This, of course, relies on the fantasy that we actually have that money just sitting there in some vault in the state treasury marked “Supreme Court Abortion Fight Funding.”  A big pile o’ dough waiting to be used in a court case that will likely cost our state several million dollars, and will divide not [...]

Trying to Find Words

I am trying to find words for what will likely be the last thing I write about Initiated Measure 11 before the election.  I am trying to find a way to express how it is to be a working woman, a working mother, and feel as though a bunch of complete strangers want to take [...]

Where are all the Apples?

After that hearty dinner, we were both craving some dessert.  An apple dessert–a tart or strudel-like confection in celebration of the season.  I did not feel like making this confection, having already done dishes twice today.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that when I go to the grocery store in late October, I’m not going [...]

Mine! All Mine! Bwahahaha!

I do love doing the CSA and the farmers market, and selling and delivering all those lovely veggies to members of the community.  I love to feed people good food.  It makes my day to know people are eating well on the good things I’ve grown.
But at this point in the year, when the market [...]

That’s All, Folks

It’s time to pull out your woolie knickers and say goodbye to your pretty petunias.  With a projected low of 22 degrees, tonight’s hard freeze will knock out the last of the summer’s blooms.
Goodbye, summer 2008!  Thanks for all your sunshine, raindrops, and bounty.
Now it’s time to get out the soup kettle and start thinking [...]

Impress Your Friends! Mystify Your Neighbors! Can Weird Stuff!

I went out in the crazy blowing insanity of the day to glean the rest of the seeds off the nasturtium plants.  We still have not had a serious frost here in my protected neighborhood, but the highs are only about 45 today, so tonight may be the killer.

While all parts of this watercress relative [...]

Autumn Winds

We woke this morning with the knocking of the honeysuckle trellis against the side of the house, and a small clacking rain of little leaves and branches: the winds of autumn are in force today, and outside work is an impossibility.
Still, myself and other sustainable gardeners have been hoping for this day of leaf-rain so [...]