I am co-hosting two events coming up at Wild Goose Creative ( 2491 Summit Street Columbus, OH 43202)! Please come fill out the audience so I’m not talking to myself. First, I will join Holly Davis of PlumLife for the Farm to Table to Freezer event from 3 – 5 pm Sunday August 16. ...
Read more →Last Sunday my parents unexpectedly watched Lillian for the day. What a treat! Instead of slothing around like we usually do, I wanted to get some kitchen remodeling projects wrapped up. Our Japanese guest Kayoko arrived to stay with us Thursday and that motivated me to get a lot of things done last week!...
Read more →On Thursday we welcomed Kayoko to our home. She is an adult chaperone for a group of 110 Japanese students visiting Ohio for the next four weeks. The Japanese youth are organized through the Labo organization and host families are organized through the Ohio 4-H International program. My family hosted several Japanese youth when...
Read more →Lillian desparately wants a cat. Our number one excuse for not getting one is that Alex is allergic. Number two reason is that Devie (the big hound) is terribly curious about cats and scares them with her howling. (Literally Dev once scared the shit out of my parent’s tomcat!) For ease of arguing, we...
Read more →When we first became members of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), we received plenty of produce that we had never encountered before. CSA managers are getting better about identifying everything in the share, but in the very beginning, we were given some veggies we couldn’t even name! Here’s my quickie guide for using your...
Read more →Way back in the fall, we started the bulb vegetable journey by planting some garlic cloves. Because they were already growing in our onion bin, there was really no downside to planting them to see if they would grow. Alex thought shallots would be fun too so he bought some starts and planted those...
Read more →Yesterday we drove through Ohio to visit relatives in Napoleon Ohio. Once off the four lane highway, we were driving past commerical farms on the left and right. There were only two crops: field corn and soybeans. Every field looked exactly the same, except for differences in the seed/chemical branded signs at the ends...
Read more →What’s growing? Everything! Well, almost everything. Peppers are starting to mature and we are eating them as we need. If we keep them on the vine, they will ripen to red, which is fine by me. We have tons of green tomatos on the vine. A very few have started blushing red. One cherry...
Read more →The harvest this time of year is so perfect and precious, it’s hard not to eat every morsel of herb, berry, and pepper. If you can spare a bit of the garden raised, CSA, or farmer’s market bounty, consider making some alcohol infusions. Herbs, berries, flowers, and veggies all release their flavors into alcohol. ...
Read more →There are several growing events happening around central Ohio in July, August, and September *Ohio Farm Bureau Grow And Know Seminar is July 18 at the Bob Evans center in Rio Grande. Topics from bees to mulch. Registration closes July 6. $25 members, $85 non members. *The American Community Garden Association is holding their...
Read more →