About a week ago I found myself with time on my hands. The warm weather from the week before had me in the garden – my wife Jeanette’s garden, I just do the grunt work, she’s the designer – cleaning out the remains of the over wintered garden. ...
Some Like it Hot
Really, I made the two hot sauces in the summer; however, I didn’t get around to bottling them until January. Making the preserves, finding the balance of tastes is fun and exciting: the bottling is sweat labour. Josh Bishop, at Whalesbone passed along a...
Some random thoughts while stirring the pot
Mariposa Farm is best known as a duck farm, but earns as much from it mixed...
This is the truth: the garden is my wife’s garden. I provided some of the labour – especially in stripping away the more weed than grass lawn that was there before she began to build the garden and in moving in the finishing soil and mulch, raking and sloping the garden down from the house to the street. ...
To begin from a somewhat technical point of view, consider what is terroir. The word terroir is derived from the French word for land; it...