Tag: farmgirl susan
member name: Farmgirl Susan
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April 30, 2008 08:20 PM EDT --
I often tell people that my life on the farm revolves around food. Basically everything I do around here - whether it's putting up hay, freezing tomatoes, fixing fences, feeding the chickens, spreading . . . more
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February 15, 2007 08:23 PM EST --
Last week my mother flew in from California for a week-long stay on the farm. Despite the fact that I was 45 minutes late picking her up at the airport, it had started to snow, and she . . . more
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November 01, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
Life is complicated. Something as basic as eating shouldn't be, but leave it to us humans to let this vital, natural act all but take over our lives. Even though most of us now have the luxury of . . . more
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May 27, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
I actually found and photographed these gorgeous morel mushrooms, all 1-1/4 pounds of them, back on April 23rd, then promptly forgot about the photos until the other day when I noticed that wild mushrooms . . . more
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May 29, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Before I became a farmgirl in rural Missouri, I was (among other things) a graphic designer in urban California. I had a collection of Rapidograph pens and subscribed to magazines with names like . . . more
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June 29, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
In May of 2007, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, authors of the bestselling Silver Palate cookbooks, participated in a wonderful live chat on Gather while on their book tour for the 25th anniversary . . . more
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July 20, 2008 04:40 PM EDT --
You might think that it would be neat to have a best friend who's writing a cookbook , and I suppose that it would be if you happened to live in the same town—or even in the same state—as . . . more
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June 11, 2008 03:09 PM EDT --
Freshly Picked Strawberries with a Side of Orange Cake
There is nothing like a strawberry. No one ever bites into something and says, "This tastes like a strawberry," unless it is a . . . more
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March 03, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
It was seven o'clock in the evening, and I was chatting on the phone with my farmguy's little sister.
"I guess I'd better go scrounge up some dinner," I said, adding . . . more
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September 07, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
It's a big world out there, and distinguishing yourself from the crowd in even some small way is nearly impossible. Most of us must accept early on that we'll never be an Olympic athlete . . . more
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May 21, 2007 11:15 PM EDT --
Click here to read A Perfect Spring Salad Part 1.
With daytime temperatures on the farm already hanging in the mid-80s and threatening to go only higher, it’s obvious that we’re quickly . . . more
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December 17, 2007 08:38 PM EST --
For more years than I like to admit, we've been slowly but surely working on a large metal building here on the farm that will one day house our wholesale artisan bread bakery and us. Since progress . . . more
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April 22, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
How do you jump start a lagging lambing season ? Try to make a flight at an airport that's 200 miles from your farm. Three lambs, including a set of twins, were born as we scrambled to get . . . more
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August 03, 2008 03:51 PM EDT --
Hi, my name is Susan and I'm a book fiend, a certified foodie, and a recipe hound, which also makes me a hopeless cookbookaholic. I have a stack of cookbooks from which I've never made a single . . . more
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January 14, 2006 01:19 PM EST --
Who Can Resist Cookies & Milk?
If all goes well, 23 of the ewes on our farm will start giving birth around the first of February. This is always the most exciting (and stressful) time . . . more
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February 25, 2006 04:40 PM EST --
A Bargain At Twice The Price*
Actually, I don't know why spinach gets such a bad rap. Well, maybe I do. It probably has something to do with that slimy substance in a can many people were wrongly . . . more
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January 08, 2007 08:49 PM EST --
Organic Great Northern Beans
American cooking . . . more
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July 28, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
"Hello?"
"Hi, this is Susan, your blueberry customer who raises sheep."
"Of course. How are you? How many lambs did you have this year?"
My local blueberry supplier recently . . . more
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November 13, 2005 10:44 AM EST --
If gardening is the outdoor activity of the new millenium, then compost is definitely the buzzword. This magical yet ingenuous . . . more
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September 25, 2007 07:32 PM EDT --
When I was a kid, one of the things we often did while on vacation was to go on factory tours. Except for a few, like the Volkswagon factory in Germany, these places usually manufactured or processed . . . more
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