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I have an issue with having to come indoors to prepare meals in the summertime.  If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of…

Sunday morning light at the farm. Wish you were here…

Every year as farm stands display their first crop of local strawberries, I’m catapulted back in time. The girls were seven years…

The Hooton family is in total ‘get ready for Meg’s bridal shower’ mode! Meggie asked her sisters Kate and Sara to stand as…

There was a time when this fence belonged to a beloved piece of farmland.  Imagine my sweet Hampstead, sixty years ago, before…

Life is bursting everywhere I look. The farmer next to us was surprised to learn that the gelding he was boarding for…

I was supposed to be getting ready for friends coming to dinner. Instead the sun pulled me out into the pastures. I…

Rhubarb crisp after it’s been raining for days. Not a warm Spring rain, more of a stings your face because it’s so…

Ciabatta is one of my favorite Italian breads. Mom brought a loaf, for dinner, last Sunday and raved about how quick and…