3 Recipes for Homemade Cleaners

Here are three recipes for basic cleaners.

French-Style New-Potato Salad

Courtesy Judith Hausman As I wait patiently for the summer’s first tomatoes, squash and peppers (can eggplant be far behind?), it’s easy to forget that new potatoes are ready to harvest first. My CSA share included 6 pounds of small potatoes last week in white, red and purple. Generally, I choose grains over potatoes in […]

Circle of Life: It’s Smaller with an Urban Flock

Photo by Rachel Hurd Anger A chicken’s journey around the circle of life can be a short one on any farm, whether rural or urban. Flock members can fall victim to acute illness, unexplained sudden death, human negligence and predators. These devastations can happen before a chicken reaches a ripe old age, despite the fact […]

Fresh Berry Pie

Courtesy Tracy Benjamin This morning, at the end of my work on community-supported agriculture farm, I picked a precious half-pint of raspberries. It took not only a little searching, but also avoiding the bees, which love the fragile, sweet berries nearly as much as I do. Over the weekend, I’ll gather some wild briar berries, […]


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