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from the Chunky Chef online

Adapted from Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Adapted from Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh

from Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh

Carrot Daikon Slaw (Banh Mi Style)

from Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh

From Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh

Taken from Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Adapted from Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Taken from Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Taken from Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Adapted from Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

From the Pillsbury Online Recipe Site

As the pandemic wears on and the darkness and cold close in, I have been enjoying the surprising number of letters that have arrived at the farm.  When opening renewal check envelopes, it is [...]

The food system was built on the stolen land and stolen labor of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and people of color. – Soul Fire Farm, from their google reparations map As a [...]

Dear NASA and SpaceX,  As humble farmers, we have a request: can you invent affordable work gloves that keep hands warm, dry, and dextrous in cold and wet environments? We fully understand that [...]

Potatoes were harvested by digging fork/hand at the first farm I ever worked for. I can still remember the sense of awe as I watched our potato digger, with its rumbly belts and chains, undercut [...]

Covid forces creativity, no doubt. As the weather cools, we have been trying to figure out how to eat lunch and preserve our safety.  Our general lunch space is in the garage of the farmhouse. We [...]

Three cold hardy crops remain in the field: Brussels Sprouts, tatsoi, and kale. As we didn’t get to the Brussels yesterday, we found ourselves harvesting them today in the rain. Cold rain [...]

The other day, my friend Rachel asked me how I was doing with the seasonal transition. She asked me with a very knowing, intense gaze – both because she is a therapist and tends to ask [...]

Across the span of my farming career, I’ve encountered lots of snippets of sexism. Sometimes the sexism is overt, like when an older male farmer neighbor will be talking to Mike and I [...]

As always, the end of the summer season seems to land itself so quickly! Overall, we’ve had a fantastic season. Our crew was so fun, hardworking, covid-careful, and amazing! Meanwhile, [...]

On my weekly whiteboard of madness, today’s big task (and tomorrow’s too) is garlic planting. Garlic planting holds a special place for me each season. It pins me down to a very [...]

Early in our relationship, Mike and I were hanging out with a bunch of friends playing some type of pictionary/charades game, and we obliterated our opponents. It was like a scene from a sitcom. [...]

According to my friend Susie, whose family is from Syria, an Arabic curse is to wish someone a home that is always clean. While a clean house may seem desirable on the surface, if it is always [...]

Jared did not want to call me. No one ever wants to call their boss with bad news. Just 1 mile down the road, on a transfer from our K fields to our main operation, Jared caught a tire on the [...]

Green dominates our fields right now… the pale green of Brussels Sprouts towers, the variegated shades of lettuces, the contrast of deep green tomato tops against their browning stalks. I [...]

Our farmland on Klevenville-Riley Road is divided into two basic parts: a flat tillable area and a degraded hillside. From our porch we can look out across our vegetable fields and up to the [...]

Apparently there is a native centipede that was nearly wiped out by DDT spraying back in the 1960s and 1970s. Since DDT has a 40 year active effect, they have been suppressed for quite sometime. [...]

Mid-morning I was out harvesting kale. Nine a.m. and I was already sweaty – partly due to the heat, partly due to the fact that I had rain pants on over work pants since the kale leaves [...]