The Smoking Goose

The Smoking Goose Comes to River Cottage Farm The one comment that seems to emerge from almost every River Cottage customer at one time or another is ” WHERE CAN I GET HEALTHY LUNCHEON MEATS!!”  Breakfast and supper seem to be more easily conquered than...
Family Meal Time

Family Meal Time

My foray into farm life was certainly idyllic if nothing else.  I set my feet in the tall grass of our new pastures with many, many nostalgic dreams in my heart.  Looking back now, some 18 years later, I can see with a bit of clarity the ones that were to be and the...

Organic Cooking: Stew, French Style – Part 2

This dish comes from the the Carmargue, French cowboy country, and is traditionally made with bull’s meat which is somewhat tough but extremely flavorful. In the US, we can only dream of the day when the palette of the people, even only a handful of people, will...

Organic Cooking: Stew, French Style

Once winter sets in for long haul I head to the bookshelf for Patricia Wells’ Bistro Cooking.  It stays with me until the first of my veggies come out of the garden and I tend to let the garden dictate my meals. I first learned of this treasury of savory dishes...
Lambs in March

Lambs in March

This weekend was unusually crazy at our peaceful little farm. With 250 pastured hens, around 60 head of cattle and 100 Katahdin sheep you would think that peace was something we experience about as much as flying saucers and blue moons. Normally though, with all the...