Put the chill on your winter feed expenses by planting cool-season forages for your livestock.
A hearty, tasty and warm welcome to this new Farmstead Chef blog! We’re honored and thrilled to join the Hobby Farms blogging family and connect weekly with you about recipes, tips and creative ideas to savor the garden harvest and eat seasonally and locally throughout the year.
Photo by Judith Hausman Next year, I’d like to make more of my addictive dip, in which I substitute roasted zucchini for eggplant. This month, my gardening coop’s period of assessment and notes for next year coincide with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make resolutions to do things […]
At our place, leaves are raw product. We gather them up and run them through a shredder for mulching perennials before winter. The problem is, of course, that we can't mulch until we've had a hard frost and the weather has turned cool, if not cold.
Photo courtesy Jodi Helmer Fickle Creek Farm, near Raleigh, N.C., allows guests to experience sustainable farming while on vacation. If your idea of a perfect getaway includes waking up to the sound of a rooster crowing in the pasture, wearing rubber boots to breakfast, and bottle-feeding baby sheep,consider spending your next vacation on a farm. Farm […]
Photo by Audrey Pavia Here are the goats I met on a hike this weekend, hard at work on fire abatement. The beautiful weather on Saturday made it a perfect day to hike near the beach. I opted to start at a little park at the top of a hill overlooking Laguna Beach, Calif., a […]
As part of National 4-H Week and National Youth Science Day, students learn how wind technology can be implemented on the farm.
Photo courtesy Digital Vision/Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock Increasingly, chefs who are commited to local farms and fresh, organic produce are partnering with farmers to distribute CSA subscriptions. Your favorite restaurant may be serving up more than farm fresh fare. A growing number of chefs are partnering with farmers to provide Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscriptions to diners. The CSA subscriptions are […]
I know fall has arrived when the hens quit laying. It’s extra official now that the leaves have started to change color and the maples have begun to shed. Commence leaf-raking. But more importantly, commence appreciating fall’s beautiful weather—perfect for gardening (at least as long as it isn’t raining).
Photo courtesy Mallory Mcgrath The fruits of our rainy-day labor: our applesauce, alongside Mallory’s heavenly apple pie. Rain Makes Applesauce was the name of a favorite children’s book; today, we experimented with applesauce recipes while it rained! Brave volunteers of our garden group gathered to trim, cook and can a few bushels of apples that had been […]
After years of using a corner of our unheated car garage for a workshop, I am in the process of making a change. With the addition of a hoop building to store the ATV, leaf shredder, lawn mower and accessories, it was time to rearrange other things as well. Our 8- by 12-foot garden shed will soon be my workshop.
