The Smoking Goose

Farm Shoppe, Slow Food

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...
Pigs, Pigs and More Pigs!

Pigs, Pigs and More Pigs!

Animals, Homesteading, Sustainable Farming

OK, I know that I am on the verge of sounding like a creepy, bragging grandmother (creepy because we aren’t talking about children here – you know the type…) but our pigs just seem to have a knack for getting into the headlines of this blog. Wednesday morning, just...
Juicy Pub-Style Burgers

Juicy Pub-Style Burgers

Beef Recipes, Grass Fed Beef

In my younger days I could have been considered to be quite an adventurous soul and when the opportunity presented itself to travel to England with Don Williams I knew, of course, that I would have to learn to drive on the wrong side of the road, in the wrong side of...
Figs in the South

Figs in the South

Organic Gardening

  My Mom, pictured here with her beloved fig, has as green a thumb as anyone I ever met.  She didn’t grow up growing things but since the day I bought her the first of many antique roses it was all we could do to keep her out of the garden. My mom’s fig is like...

Good to the Grain

Book Reviews, Recipes

This week I pulled out Kim Boyce’s lovely cookbook, Good to the Grain and together with a wonderful post from one of my favorite blogs,   Cannelle et Vanille and Aran’s post about her now famous Summer Berry and Yogurt pie I was reminded of...