Make homemade soap from milk using this basic recipe from soapmaker Martha Enriquez of Pine Lane Soaps.
Photo by Judith Hausman For a heartier meal, add sauteed sausage and chopped tomatoes to this herb and walnut pasta. Though not truly wild like garlic mustard, fiddleheads or lambs quarters, mint, chive and thyme are tough little survivors on my rocky, deer-scoured property. These fragrant growers have found a way to sneak up through the […]
After brushing up on tools and motors during my tool-shopping expedition, I spent some time on the web looking at my options and reading reviews for angle grinders.
Photo by Audrey Pavia This Miniature foal is so cute, she doesn’t look real. When my roommate, Lisa, asked me if I wanted to go with her to watch her boyfriend Matt take a riding lesson on Friday evening, I hesitated. I had work to do, and I knew if I ventured into a training […]
Many vegetable-pickling recipes call for "pickling spice.” You can buy this in the grocery store, but you can also make it yourself.
You'll be surprised with the taste of this palatte-pleasing crop.
Courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock Detroit, Mich., is working its way to the top of urban-agriculture research. While traditionally a mecca in the worldwide automotive industry, the city of Detroit, Mich., may be adding another facet to its fundamental structure: global recognition as an important city in the field of urban-agriculture research. A proposal, recently submitted by […]
One thing I know I am NOT going to do this year is let the cabbageworms get the best of me. Imported cabbageworms are common all across the U.S. They were introduced from Europe in the 1800s, and the caterpillars love to chew ragged holes in the leaves and flower buds of all members of the brassica family.
Photo by Judith Hausman Sprinkle fresh thyme or minced dill, oregano, or tarragon over your asparagus pastry. Skinny purple stalks are snaking through the straw covering, and fat green spears are poking up too. Asparagus time is a reason to celebrate. I never got the hang of the pale, lavender-white ones, but the green ones […]
When comparing drills, grinders, circle saws and other rotating tools, available torque is the important factor.
Place a temporary compost bin made of straw or hay on top of the garden for an easy-to-transport, no-waste composting system.
Do you have multiflora rose on your farm? We do. It grows down in the hollow near our pond. Sometimes Mom takes Uzzi and me down to to the hollow to browse, and we love nibbling multiflora rose petals.
