The day after New Year’s our friends at Bridge Farm invited us to a “locavore” potluck. It was an amazing and fun afternoon. We got to meet a lot of new people, all of whom are producing some wonderful products. The challenge of the potluck was, as you can imagine, creating a dish with local [...]
Posts Tagged ‘locavore’
Eating locally
Posted in Cheese, Cooking, Farming, Food, Gardens, tagged locavore, Somerset grist mill on 2011/01/10 | 7 Comments »
Snow day
Posted in Cooking, Farm, Food, Pigs, tagged ham, Large Black pigs, locavore, pork, soup, Tamworth pigs on 2009/12/10 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was our first snow day of the school year. It was a great call as once the snow started it really came down. And then of course it was followed by torrential, windswept rains. Totally yucky by the end of the day. I had finally picked up our smoked pork last Friday and we [...]
Butchers and a Local Thanksgiving harvest
Posted in Cooking, Farming, Gardens, Maine, Pigs, tagged butchers, lamb, locavore, meat, pork, Thanksgiving on 2009/11/22 | 3 Comments »
Wow, it’s Sunday and it’s still sunny and warm. I am reveling in being at home for the day and am recuperating from the back to back trips to butchers: Friday night a trip to the butcher in Albion to pick up the fresh pork cuts from our pigs, and a 200+ mile round-trip yesterday [...]
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