We didn’t buy our house with food in mind. It was only after we moved into it that we started thinking in terms of dinner. And so we put in a garden, we got chickens, and we built a hoophouse. There was one food, though, that came with the place. We live on a 110-acre [...]
Last week, just up the street, there was terror. There were a couple of really bad guys, maiming and killing people. Boston and its suburbs were locked down as one suspect, armed and dangerous, eluded capture. Here on Cape Cod, we were perfectly safe; nobody trying to elude capture flees to a peninsula that juts [...]
Until just a few years ago, the only thing I’d ever bought by the yard was fabric. In fact, that was the only way I thought you could by stuff by the yard – the linear yard. And I have to say, I probably could have led a perfectly happy life never knowing there was [...]
The two busiest times of the oyster-growing year are spring, when we put our gear and seed out, and fall, when we take it in. Each has its satisfaction. We finished buttoning up the farm in January, when we took in almost all our equipment. We left nine trays, densely packed with about 10,000 almost-legal [...]
I’ve been writing about food here at Starving for four years now and I have, in the main, kept politics off its pages. Partly, it was because I want to keep the focus on growing, hunting, fishing, and foraging. But it was partly because I know I’ve got readers whose opinions on these things differ [...]
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Catch-and-release: Yea or nay?
Catch-and-release: Yea or nay?
Go fish!
Go fish!
Go fish!