2026 Predictions Extravaganza
What will happen in the worlds of food, farming, and health? Making predictions as the new year begins can be fun, but it's important to write them down. Most of...
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2026 Predictions Extravaganza
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A Cold Start to March
I blame the fact that I grew up in southeast Pennsylvania for my ability to convince myself every year that something resembling spring will arrive the moment the calendar flips...
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Barter
Back in early January when I posted the rules I thought point #3, barter, would only be of minor importance. I expected to swap a little bit of stuff here...
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Mistakes Were Made
Yesterday I went to a Farm Disaster Preparedness seminar. While most of the stuff was common sense, it was good to be reminded of common sense precautions, and it made...
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Loophole: Hay
After the last few weeks I'm ready for spring. I'm going to sing a little incantation over this photo from balmier times and hope for a warm March. This shows...
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The Meals of Justish, Part II
In case you missed it, this is the second installment of a once-a-month series we're doing. Here is a link to the first part. Embedded at that post is the...
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Food Item: Onions
One theme of this experiment is the difference between the food necessary to survive and the food necessary for comfort and enjoyment. The biggest issue is not any particular food...
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Winter Chickens
The best (alright, the only) dietary change of the past couple weeks is that the hens have finally started consistently laying. I got them early enough last summer that they...
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Winter Steak
I've had a few requests for recipes. I haven't been posting them because of my limited ingredient list and the repetitiveness of my meals this limit imposes. It seems there...
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Dutch Oven
The dutch oven is a marvelous cooking tool. It can brown meat prior to braising. It can hold a roast. It can simmer stew on the stove-top. The lid is...
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The Foods I Miss, or, Why Did I Ever Give up Coffee?
Since the earliest stages of planning this project I have maintained that its purpose is not asceticism for the sake of asceticism. While I hope that depriving myself of the...
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What I'm Eating 2/10/15
Garth made some bresaola, which he just cracked into. It is slightly on the salty side, so to cut the salt I made a chicken/potato salad and used the beef...
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Homemade Bresaola
If you’ve got a jar of sauerkraut bubbling away on the kitchen counter or a crock of pickles tucked away in the basement corner, but you just don’t get the...
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What do Pigs Eat in Winter?
The short answer is, "anything they can get", they're pigs after all. My pigs' two staples are "hay" and yogurt whey. The hay is wrapped in white plastic and ferments...
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