Spring is chugging along my friends– chugging along very, very slowly. Things started with a real burst for us in mid-April. We were blessed with 70-degree weather and an absolutely perfect week. We planted onions and lettuce right on schedule. It rained when we needed it to. It stopped just in time. We planted a…
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Fertility + Homestead Wisconsin + RECIPE: Lamb Steaks with Peanuts & Gochujang
It’s been almost a year since I made much mention of our journey into trying to become parents or our “issues” of “infertility” which probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Reading about someone not getting pregnant is not a particularly joyful or exciting topic. But since it is the current reality for me and…
Imperfect Action + RECIPE: Roasted Beet Salad
Last Saturday there was a snowstorm in Wisconsin– a short-lived but altogether unexpected spring “blizzard” where temperatures dropped as low as 26 degrees and four inches of very heavy snow fell on our farm. As vegetable farmers in an already unpredictable weather locale (Wisconsin is well-known for forty-degree swings in the spring and fall) in…
Packing Shed + RECIPE: Spicy Chickpea & Sweet Potato Salad
The journey to having a building on our farm where we can wash, pack, sort, and store our vegetables is nearly over. Can you believe it? After a season of dreaming (2016), a season when we truly thought we would be building only to discover that the site location the whole family had settled on […]
Preparations for Spring + RECIPE: Beef Short Rib & Bok Choy Fried Rice
The seventh season of Raleigh’s Hillside Farm is officially underway! My Carrot and I began seeding a little over two weeks ago with an epic afternoon spent dropping thousands of tiny onion, leek and scallion seeds into soil. And somehow, a short sixteen days later, greenhouse number one is nearly full. Brassica, lettuce, fennel, parsley,…
Resolutions, Intentions & Farm Retreats + RECIPE: Napa Cabbage Noodle Salad
How are you all feeling as we officially end this first week of 2019? Are you still figuring out resolutions? Have you already given them up? Did you choose a word for the year? Do you think that’s utter bullshit? I lie happily in the middle: contemplating deeply about who I want to be during…
Surviving the Heat + RECIPE: Zucchini, Chard & Chickpea Tacos
We followed this strange pattern for the entire month of June. The work week typically began with a major storm event that pummeled our field with anywhere from 2-4 inches of rain. It then gave way to lovely weather that would be perfect to work in had the fields not been far too wet to…
Cookbook Potluck Club + RECIPE: Snow Pea, Fennel & Pickled Strawberry Salad
Two winters ago, before I began dealing with the chronic recurring knee and hip injuries that have been plaguing me, back when I was still logging ridiculous miles on the treadmill at my local gym each week, I would binge watch episodes of America’s Next Top Model and page through endless back issues of my…
Go Mode + RECIPE: Spring Harvest Grain Salad
I always do this. I always think that May is our busiest month and I burn my candle at both ends all month long and then when June hits, I’m (not) surprisingly very tired. I tell myself it’s June and I can let off the gas a bit so I make time to rest and…
Burgers & Brews + RECIPE: Ginger Pork Burgers
Was it just a holiday? Did I hear something about a long weekend happening? I can’t be quite sure because I was doing my best to avoid Instagram altogether while sweating out 150+ ounces of water daily from the 90+ degree fields. For us, it wasn’t so much a relaxing weekend as it was…
The Leek & The Carrot 