The Leek & The Carrot

How Our Greenhouse Grows + RECIPE: Cauliflower & Sweet Corn Elote Soup

Many of you shared in my joy last year as I fell over the moon in love with our new greenhouse. You watched on Instagram as it went from a frame to an enclosed space to a beautiful home for all our baby veggies. Maybe you even read my piece for Edible Madison where I…

Farm Crush Friday: Dishing Up the Dirt + RECIPE: Winter Tabbouleh Salad

There’s nothing I need more after a vacation of beer, BBQ, and smoked things than to cozy up in a corner and fall into a book about vegetables. My girl Andrea Bemis allowed me to do just that with her new cookbook Dishing Up the Dirt. I’ve had a farm crush on Andrea for about…

Vegetable Guilt + Meal Plans! + RECIPE: Avocado Bagel with Cucumber

I’ve been doing this thing this winter that I feel immensely guilty about. So I’m just going to come clean and tell you all about it. I have been buying one or two cucumbers a week since we returned from vacation in late January. As a vegetable farmer who knows the abundance of cucumbers I…

Best. Weekend. Ever. + RECIPE: Build-Your-Own Pizza Pudgie Pies

Let’s talk about things that I love. Like pudgie pies. Pudgie pies are high on the list of things that I love. Especially if they are of the build your own variety. (I mean what build-your-own situation do I not go crazy for? See exhibits A, B and C). Pudgie pies are right up there with long…

MOSES Organic Farming Conference + Meal Plan + RECIPE: Tater Tot Shepherd’s Pie

3000+ farmers, academics and friends. 450 minutes of workshops attended. Three new farming books purchased (including The Local Economy Solution, Rebuilding the Foodshed and Cold Antler Farm). (Somehow only) four beers. Two keynote speakers who were both storytellers, and both encouraging us to share our story of organic farming (!!!!!!). One adorable man named Eugene…

Farm Crush Friday: Sacred Blossom Farm + a GIVEAWAY!

It’s been a long time since I rattled on about one of my farm crushes (14 months to be exact). I guess it takes a big business and an even bigger crush to pull me back into my rotation of sharing the farm relationships that most impress and captivate me. Tony DiMaggio of Sacred Blossom…

Kitchen Evolution + Meal Plans + RECIPE: Shaved Apple & Fennel Salad

I first began cooking seven years ago. Largely because my Carrot and I had dreams of becoming vegetable farmers. I thought that being a good cook was a kind of prerequisite for becoming a farmer. Or at least that’s what I told myself when I avoided studying to play in the kitchen. In those early…

Four Days in Iceland + RECIPE: Icelandic Hot Dogs

Our second stop on farmer vacation 2017 was Iceland: the land of gorgeous scenery, geothermal energy and the infamous stopover. It was quite the shock traveling from 65-and-sunny Portugal to Iceland- eighteen degrees and shrouded in mist- but as soon as we hopped on the bus that would take us from the airport to downtown…

Four Days in Portugal + “RECIPE”: Portugese Couvert

Let’s talk about vacation and good food and happy things, because really, what else is there to do at a time like this? Don’t get me wrong. It’s not just fun and games over here. I’m working hard to find my own path forward through this whole mess. I’m just like you. I can’t stop…

Where I’m At + RECIPE: Bacon & Pecan Belgian Waffle

It’s been one hell of a week my friends. One hell of an emotional, exhausting kind of a week. Arriving home in Wisconsin after a picture perfect vacation (much more on this later!) to forty-degree weather and what can only appear to be a spring thaw in mid-January, diving 100 miles per hour into work with a board…