Have you recently embarked on a vegan diet due to health concerns or ethical considerations? Are you wondering if this lifestyle is one you can sustain in the long term? This year marks my twentieth as a vegan eater, and I am writing this article because I thought you might enjoy reading about some of [...]

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The sugaring off dance at Grandma’s in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. The Indian War Cry on the prairies of Kansas Territory. The grasshopper plague on the banks of Plum Creek in Minnesota. When Laura Ingalls Wilder began to write down her recollections of a 19th century childhood, she little suspected that her collected stories [...]

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Brassy grasshopper days and sapphire sky cricket nights; summer moon and stars gleaming on warming earth on the family farm where ripening can be scented in the air if you pay attention. Look under the broad, scalloped leaves and find a gaggle of golden geese hiding in the green shade. The crooknecks are ready! Give [...]

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In the mid 20th century, Time Life Books gathered together some of the West’s best-known food writers to collaborate on an unprecedented library of books that would be published in 1969 under the title Foods of the World. With large, full-color hardbound volumes on everything from Eastern Europe to the Middle East to the American [...]

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From the Iroquois Confederacy of the East to the Nez Perce of the Pacific North West, the remarkable TV miniseries, How The West Was Lost tells the authentic story of American history through the eyes of the Native Peoples who lost their lands to the wave of European immigrants that swept across the country as [...]

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Three to five times a day, 365 days a year, you will find us in the kitchen on our organic family farm, preparing good vegan meals and snacks from scratch. Growing and preparing utterly fresh, delicious foods occupies a major portion of our time and, for us, provides the surest route for finding joy in [...]

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If you grew up in the 70′s-80′s decades, chances are, you may have run into High Feather in the classroom or on summer vacation. Let me give your memory a little jog. High Feather was produced by the Bureau of Mass Communications and the New York State Education Department and chronicled the experiences of eight [...]

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Vegetables and herbs are seldom grown for their flowers – but they could be! Every year, I am astonished anew by the unique flowers that come as a bonus of beauty on our family farm. Herb and vegetable flowers offer exquisite color, memorable form and…of course…a life-giving harvest. Sometimes, when my husband is deeply engaged [...]

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What thoughts, words and images come to your mind when you think of 1950′s food? If, like me, you weren’t alive at that time, perhaps your brain conjures up a picture of packaged wonder products, a poor understanding of nutrition and a society-wide preoccupation with conformism, all glossed over with black-and-white scenes of happy, smiling [...]

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Is your family working towards better self-sufficiency by creating your first vegetable garden or turning the land around your house into a real, working farm? You’re in good company. Friends of ours in the seed business tell us that vegetable seed sales went through the roof this spring – double or triple what they’ve been [...]

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