by SAM Steiner | Nov 28, 2023 | From the Kitchen, Notes from the Land
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you had a wonderful day and enough turkey for a tryptophan high on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday! With, of course, Cranberries… I was never enamored with them. As a kid, I thought they added color to the Turkey day table, but...
by SAM Steiner | Jul 21, 2023 | Notes from the Land
No, this is not a book review of Jon Krakauer’s modern classic. It is an “animated” essay of our summer adventures with the wild things that surround us, starting with a hooded merganser and her brood in the featured photo during a paddle on the river....
by SAM Steiner | Jul 14, 2023 | From the Kitchen
Home grown vegetables and produce from the farm collided today. I cannot shake the habit of growing vegetables. I cannot bear to give up the farm membership because I love that community and variety. Garlic scape harvest and a close shave of my lettuce patch…...
by SAM Steiner | May 12, 2023 | Notes from the Land
Why write about this in mid-May? Because we this is what we do in May – clean up winter debris. The feature photo is what we have left of a 16-foot cedar hedge that was like a thick, green privacy wall. Here’s what it looked like on December 15th: It was the...
by SAM Steiner | Apr 16, 2023 | From the Kitchen
Between winter and spring is confusing time for me and for the leopard frog in the feature photo, both of us itching to get out of hibernation when we feel some warmth. We found him chilling on a lingering snowbank during our Easter hike. The air temperature was 64...
