River Time!

Hi, my name is Rebecca, and I’m a workaholic.
But then it’s summer, and we get the tent set up and along about four o’ clock in the afternoon, I can’t think of anything better to do than to start getting ready for another night on the river.
We spent our first night of the season there [...]

Kick ‘em when they’re down

Once, a long time ago, I dismantled a coffee table with my feet.
The table belonged to a particularly no-good boyfriend who drifted in and out of my life for a number of months.  While we’re friends now (he was no good at being a boyfriend, but he is a talented poet and performer), the break-up [...]

Two Days in One

My apologies for not posting on what I was bringing to market yesterday.  M has been here all week, so I’ve been doing the single-mom-with-job-plus-business juggle.
He’s a trooper most of the time, but in the little bits of time between grading, responding to e-mails, planting, harvesting, and weeding, it seems a better use of my [...]

So Much for Tomatoes

If you were planning on purchasing organic tomato plants from me at the farmers market, I hope you got them last week. I was wondering yesterday what was going on with the plants I’d kept at home to bring to the market, and they looked worse this morning.
And then, just inches away, in the [...]

Smokin’ Hot Compost

Saturday’s community garden tour at Dean Spader’s (where we got to watch the compost thermometer gauge rise when he stuck it in his gorgeous piles) gave me the gumption I needed to re-assemble my pile into something that, while it may not smoke, will likely steam in the cool morning air.
The pile I started with [...]

Chokecherry Cordial

This morning I tasted the chokecherry cordial that’s been brewing in my fridge for the past three or four months, pronounced it completely awesome, and set about straining and bottling the first batch and starting another.
Last fall, after harvesting a couple gallons of chokecherries, I made a large amount of juice that I thought I [...]

Bookends of Summer

We are entering summer–bookended by the Memorial Day and Labor Day holiday weekends.  In my family, holiday weekends were more likely to be spent doing home projects than hitting the road and enduring the traffic of all the other families going on vacation.
I’m continuing that tradition without even really thinking about it–mostly because the friend [...]

Local Foodie Exposed: What’s in the Freezer?

I loved the NYT Magazine series on local foodies that showed what was in their fridges.  In that spirit, I’m doing my own local foodie exposée–the first segment of which is: what’s in my freezer?
There’s some processed non-local food in there (I’m not a total purist!)–a couple pounds of Organic Valley butter, a pint of [...]

A Good Kind of Exhausted

I woke up yesterday morning–market opening day morning–at 5 a.m.  I did force myself to stay in bed until about six, but I didn’t get much more sleep.  I was thinking about all I had to harvest (once it was light enough to do so) and all the weeks and months I’d been preparing for [...]

Are You Ready?

Farmers Market starts TODAY–3-7pm, Clay County Fairgrounds.
I’ve got three big coolers full of fresh veggies harvested this morning (and the asparagus this afternoon), plus a few flats of vegetable plants as well.
See you at the market!