The lovely Catherine of Photo Kitchen came over last week to take photographs. We ended up doing so many fun things with eggs, including decorating and eating them, that will be sharing them for the next five days during Hounds in the Kitchen Egg Week. Inspired by Vanessa Prentice‘s workshop at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association annual conference, I wanted to try my hand at making natural egg dyes this year. I suspected [...]

On Monday I had the pleasure of interviewing Joan Dye Gussow, keynote speaker for this weekend’s Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association annual conference. A matriarch of the local food and organic movements, our discussion largely related to her most recent book, Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables. Rachel Tayse Baillieul: What does your garden look like now? Joan Dye Gussow: I’m home and it’s under snow. It’s been under snow, pretty [...]

I am teaching a private cooking class, preparing to present at the OEFFA and Beyond Social conferences, celebrating Valentine’s day, and hosting three giveaways on the blog this week. We’re planning quick and simple meals to complement all the special events. Sunday – dinner with family, bringing vegetables and cranberry applesauce compote Monday – Afternoon tea of crackers, cheeses, cornichons, special dessert; later, Alex and I will share carryout taco truck treats for a Valentine’s [...]

It’s time for another Friday Five! Here are five handpicked events that are sure to feed your soul in chronological order: 1. Field & Screen at the Wexner Center for the Arts – From February 4 – 24, the Wexner Center is featuring films about food and the environment. On the 24th, they will host a market and CSA preview with Wayward Seed farm and friends. Check the link for showtimes and prices. 2. Pecha [...]

Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association is one of my favorite local foods groups in the state.  They enable small farms to be certified organic, provide a great resource guide for consumers, hold informative farm tours, and run a great annual conference. On Saturday January 22, OEFFA is hosting a casual conference benefit evening.  Held at Wild Goose Creative from 7 – 9:30 pm, the Winter Warmer will give local food enthusiasts a chance to [...]

I recently spoke at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association (OEFFA) on the topic of Urban Gardening.  Approximately fifty attendees discussed their urban gardening challenges and together we brainstormed solutions. I transformed my handout for the workshop into a guest post for Kimberly Hartke, writer of Hartke is Online and publicist for the Weston A. Price Foundation.  My Tips for Gardening in Small Spaces with lots of pictures is over at her site. I [...]

“We live in an amazing country where it’s perfectly legal to feed your kids twinkies, hoho cakes, and mountain dew, but raw milk, that’s dangerous.”  So began Joel Salatin’s Saturday keynote address to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association annual conference on February 13, 2010.  I attended the talk.  The writing below is my best effort to impartially summarize Salatin’s opinions as he shared them. Joel Salatin is the farmer behind Polyface Farms, a [...]