We’ve reached the end of the season my friends! And by that I don’t mean we’ve done our last CSA delivery. No no, that happened a couple weeks ago. For us, the end of the growing season means that the garlic has been planted, the tomato trellis taken down, the hoophouse construction finished, and the…
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Maple Brown Butter Apple Crisp
It’s November!!!!!!!!!! The most cozy, wonderful, nourishing month of the year. Am I right?! Yeah, I’ve heard not. Two years ago, I learned that not everyone relishes November with as much enthusiasm, coziness, and unbound joy as me. A handful of folks actually told me I was completely wrong about my passion for November. They…
Celeriac Mash with Brined Pork Chops
It’s been ten days since we landed back in the United States and life has never felt more spacious. Which honestly, I did not expect after being gone for the better part of February. Our days have been equal parts farm doing and farm dreaming since returning home– a balance I relish. We’ve inventoried seeds,…
Apple Hazelnut Toast
For some reason or another I’ve really been struggling to get into any kind of morning meal routine lately. And honestly, it makes sense, breakfast and I have always had a hot and cold kind of relationship. Before meeting my Carrot, I wasn’t really much of a breakfast person. I was very much a “grab…
Winter Freeze + RECIPE: Spicy Brussels Sprouts with Peanuts & Apples
My little home in Southern Wisconsin (and much of the Great Lakes basin) is experiencing a crazy arctic blast of beyond sub-zero temperatures right now. The temps are to stay below zero for the next 48 hours peaking tomorrow evening at a chilling -30 degrees. That’s before windchill. As a farmer, I am of course thinking…
Fall Love + RECIPE: Butternut Squash, Kale & Apple Salad
I love fall. I love fall so freaking much. We’re only four days into this new season and I feel like I’ve never been happier in my whole entire life which is ironic because if you were to ask me how I felt a month earlier, I probably would have answered back that I was…
Batch Cooking + RECIPE: Apple & Pear Baked Maple Oatmeal
Recipe revised November 5, 2022 I am all about the batch cooking and simple eating these days. I feel like I’ve done a total 180 from the start of my cooking career when I considered a great night one where I spent three hours in my kitchen making pretzels from scratch or some other all-consuming…
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…
Breaking Ground + RECIPE: Leek & Apple Cornbread
We broke ground on Monday morning. So to speak. The septic man (Kurt) came out to our potential home building site with his soil scientist Gary and Gary’s daughter (Anna) to dig test holes. Anna is a soil scientist in training. This process called a perk (short for peculation) test is one of the first…
The Leek & The Carrot 