Ah, it feels good to be back together. This weekend was bustling with foodie tasks: Alex stuffed cured pork chunks into beef middles and hung them to dry for coppa, Rachel rinsed and readied pork belly for bacon makin’, the whole family helped friends kill and eat a backyard chicken, and we made Lean Green Bean’s homemade soft pretzels and beer cheese sauce for a Superbowl dinner. We’re looking forward to more cooking and eating [...]

Wow! How do I follow up my most viewed, most commented, most retweeted post?! I am so appreciative of the interest in real food*. I am glad to be in community with people who support and practice choosing sustainable foodstuffs. Slaughtering your own animals is not practical for most people, not even us, on a regular basis. So where are the best places to purchase real food? 1) Your Backyard – growing your own fruits [...]

“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 [...]