Figuring out first-hand food
Those of you who have even a passing familiarity with what we do here know that I am a crappy gardener. I have grown bitter collards, anaemic snow peas, wormy cabbages, and, perhaps most notably, watery giant squash – and that’s just above the ground! Look below, and you’ll find I hold the world’s record [...]
The timing was perfect. Just as I started to clear out my library in earnest because I have resigned myself to the twilight of the book, I got an e-mail from a very nice woman at Amazon. Amazon was planning a four-city billboard campaign for the Kindle, starting at the end of April. The gist [...]
There are sights that strike fear into a wife’s heart, and many too many of them involve a truck, a rope, and a tree. This particular incident had been brewing for quite some time. It dates back to our purchase of a relatively large boat, and a commensurately large truck. Together, they pushed the limits [...]
It’s spring, and the beginning of the John Edwards trial. All in all, a good time to think about the lengths all creatures on earth are willing to go in the name of procreation. We have, as we speak, a hen sitting on six turkey eggs. She’s been there a week and, with any luck, [...]
It was probably twenty years ago, when I lived on the west coast, that I had some reason to be on the campus of San Francisco State University. I don’t remember why I was there, but I remember running into a protest of some sort, put on by a group of students wearing t-shirts with [...]
What is it with cross-species amity? I’m a sucker for all those pictures of two different kinds of animals playing together, or napping together, or otherwise cohabiting peacefully. I love it when horses make friends with goats, when a gorilla takes care of a human, even when dogs and cats live happily in the same [...]
So far, our bees have been nothing but heartbreak. Two years ago, we got our first two hives, neither of which survived that first winter. Last year, we were on the receiving ends of two hives that had been removed from houses, but we got them late in the season. Despite heroic measures and expert [...]
Kevin and I are about midway through an eight-week course in boating safety and seamanship, and I have finally found something I seem to be better at than he is. Knots. Before I could find out that I’m actually pretty good at knots, I had to get over the concept that there were so many [...]
Yesterday we took the new boat for her inaugural sea trial. She did beautifully, which was to be expected since she’s a lovely boat and her previous owner maintained her meticulously. The big test wasn’t when the boat was in the water. It was getting her to the water, into the water, out of the [...]
I know I’m not the only one who has trouble thinning seedlings. In fact, I struggle with the whole philosophy of planting more seeds than you need just so you can snip the life out of two-thirds of them just as the little proto-plants stretch their legs. Is there a reason we can’t simply figure [...]
Tamar Haspel has been writing about food and health for over a decade. She recently moved from Manhattan to Cape Cod. She’s adjusting well. [Read More …]
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