Farmer’s Market Morning

Saturday morning is one of my favorite times of the week. Not because we sleep in extra late, or even because we have a special breakfast now and then. No, my favorite part of Saturday is always the Farmer’s Market Frenzy.
Rob and I have several farmer’s markets that we can go to around here. Heck, [...]

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Education, not disappointment

 
Rob and I continued our path of forming relationships with farmers last night through a 3-hour dinner with our bison farmers from the farmer’s market, Kathy and Ken Lindner.  There is a deep wisdom, accompanied by comfortable kindness, in this couple.  They make you feel at ease, and within moments of talking with them you are assured [...]

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Bison Business

A quick post, as I’m away from home this afternoon…
I talked a bit in a previous post about our bison lady from the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market…the more I learn about this couple, the more I am impressed with their philosophy. It’s really right up the alley with our thoughts on sustainability, responsibility, building community, [...]

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Sugar Rush

So the other day my husband and I were once again purchasing sugar from the store. We tend to go with a variety that claims to be vegan, but that’s not why we buy it. Rather, we buy it because it is one of the only bags of sugar that assures us of both organic [...]

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Walking the Talk…As Well As We Can

I’ve gotten a few questions about the status of some of the things I’ve posted about, so here’s a quick update:
The Garden: The garden is doing great! We’ve been harvesting lettuce for our own salads and really loving it. We’ve let a couple of stalks bolt so they can go to seed–hopefully we’ll be able [...]

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Why We Choose Local

For the past 3 months, our household has been a proud supporter of a local farm, Tierra Miguel, as one of the main sources of our fruits and vegetables. Getting our box every other Wednesday always gives us a feeling of excitement and anticipation–and, every once in a while, adventurousness (“What in the world do we [...]

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Food, Inc.

Rob and I saw and amazing documentary last night on food production in America called Food, Inc. We knew a lot of the information from our own research, but we were still baffled and disturbed by its contents. I think the information contained in the movie should be known by everyone. I’ll probably blog more [...]

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“Married to Amazement”

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms…
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
-Mary Oliver
Today my wonderful family by marriage and I went frolicking through the beautiful countryside of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I found [...]

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Fiddle finagling and farm frenzy

So I pulled out my fiddle this morning to practice, and BOING! My G string, the lowest string, broke.  Practice postponed.

This gave me a great excuse to restring both that string and the D string, completing my restringing since nabbing the fiddle at the Pico Blvd. garage sale. I can’t tell you how much better [...]

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Farmers Market Relationships and Bison

 
Saturday morning, my husband and I gave this photo to a seller at our farmers market…a lady we call our “bison lady.” It’s a photo of a pot pie we made from a bison rump from her family’s bison farm. She took the photo, smiled her familiar smile, and holding it to her chest, said, “Is [...]

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