Firesign Farm

My favorite market has a bulk foods section. Buying my dry beans and grains there saves me money, especially when compared to buying beans b...

A Halloween homage to Oscar Wilde   "How sad it is!" murmured Dorian, with his eyes still fixed upon his own p...

A chipotle (chi-POAT-lay) is a smoke-dried chile pepper. Many chiles can be turned into chipotles, with jalapeño the most recognizable here ...

It was a breezy afternoon - just right for gathering lettuce seeds. Lettuce seeded in the Spring was harvested first as thinnings, then oute...

My crocus and earliest daffodils are up and blooming. Fall-planted garlic and shallots are up and growing in the garden, and just received a...

I like to have something to keep my hands busy in the evenings, especially in the winter. We heat with a woodstove in the living room, which...

Even though it's been snowing (lightly, I admit, and really welcome - pretty much all of our natural annual precipitation is from snow) ...

This past fall, we took a road trip to see my mom - crossing Nevada, Utah, and half of Colorado. On the way there, we toured Arches National...

With one of our biggest summer holidays coming up, I thought I'd post a recipe for a great picnic cake. It's one of my mom's rec...

I was doing some cellar maintenance earlier today. I noticed some mold on the stem end of the last zucchini - left to grow huge last summer,...

It should be time to start thinking about getting outside, getting my hands in the dirt once again. The first daffodils are blooming, as is...