I have been making function pottery with Ray Bub at Oak Bluffs Pottery Cottage in Pownal for a couple years. Recently I have had fun making fermentation crocks. I have done a bit of playing around with lacto-fermentation over the years, mostly making pickles and sauerkraut. The benefits of these ferments is that they are teeming …
Matthew has been planning a new sign for the farm’s driveway for quite some time. This week he returned from a four month thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, and set right to work on the sign. He started by sketching out a few different designs and layouts and settled on one that reflects the same …
On Saturday we hosted the Berkshire Food Guild for their Whole Hog Workshop. The Berkshire Food Guild is a new organization that organizes events with a focus on skills sharing. They plan to have a few big events (like the one yesterday) and many smaller educational events. The workshop started with Jake Levin (The Roving Butcher) giving …
Justin made a delicious peach pie for the potluck. It was heartily consumed by those in attendance, before Justin, Topher, and Cara polished of the final morsels. Justin and Cara preserved some dignity and refrained from scrabbling for every last little bit. Topher,on the other hand, had no shame…. does this guy look like he …
written last Wednesday, August 14… It’s Wednesday night and I’ve just sat down to get a jump start on this week’s newsletter. It has been the most beautiful evening. After work I went for a little run around the neighborhood – I found myself mostly looking up at the quickly changing dramatic sky. As I was nearing …