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The Dirty Life

“The Dirty Life- A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love” by Kristin Kimball

One of the things that I most enjoyed about The Dirty Life is that it is a story about a real woman in today’s world.  She begins as a savvy New York freelance writer, and winds up as a deeply devoted farm wife.  This journey is not something that she consciously chooses in the beginning, [...]

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Peruvian Latte

Coffee CSA- a Great Deal for Everyone

Buying your coffee directly from the grower with CoffeeCSA makes so much sense, to so many people on so many levels.

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Corporate Agriculture

Who’s More ‘Elitist?’- Foodies or Corporate Agriculture?

Corporate Agriculture often accuses local food advocates of being ‘elitist’ in their approach, but who’s approach has the public in mind?

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Constructing a Recycled Growing Bed

We’ve created a short presentation of the process used to build our raised garden beds and greenhouse growing bed. This is meant to be an idea generator, not a step-by-step how-to. Hopefully, this will help “out of the box” thinking of how to accomplish this in your garden or backyard! Please let us know what [...]

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Gary Nabhan and his wife Laurie Monti

Terroir-ist’s Manifesto for Eating

We were able to catch up and reconnect with an old friend recently- Dr. Gary Nabhan. He is one of those self-effacing geniuses that are as interested in learning from those he meets as he is in sharing his experiences for their benefit. An internationally recognized, award-winning chile-head, his eyes lit up when I handed [...]

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