A cheese Haiku
I do a lot of planning in my sleep, this includes writing to-do lists and haikus. Here is a recent dreamt cheese haiku…. cheese surprises me i think i know her, but then oh! impressed again
Milk Tasting, by Eric Hess
A couple weeks back, the crew here had the opportunity to sit down with cheesemaker and monger Paul Lawler, now a CFF apprentice alumni, before he departed for Cranberry Creek Farm in the Poconos to make what will prove to be some stellar goat’s milk cheese. Paul presented us first with a well-prepared lesson on proper tasting, which …
“Eat Your Heart Out” says the New York Times Mag
Last week I was pleased to see an article in the New York Times Magazine questioning the conventional medical interpretation of the relationship between saturated fat, cholesterol, and heart disease. For the past few years I have been trying to educate myself on these and other nutritional issues, in order to help deal with my …
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Nutrition and diversified farms, by David Gold
Cycles abound in physical systems. Holistic farm management embraces these cycles, identifying as many ways as possible that some output of a farm process ― say, manure as the output of a farm animal’s metabolism ― may in turn be appropriated as an input of another farm process ― say, fertilizer for the growth of crops or forage. …
This is About Family, by Justin Olen
This is about my family, but mostly about the Dinner Table. See, my family, the one I grew up with, is small. Well, I guess it’s big, but I only knew a few folks: Mom and Dad and Seth, mostly. Dinner time, for most of growin’ up, Mom and Dad and Seth and I ate …