Submitted by Birgit McCall on Sat, 10/15/2016 – 2:09pm Some of you are only excited about the coming of winter in the context of a certain HBO series; however, there are others that love sitting by a roaring fire on a cold day. I enjoy both a great deal, and luckily, we have a roaring […]
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Preserving this year’s Harvest at Home
Submitted by Cassie Carroll on Mon, 10/10/2016 – 3:40pm Learning how to preserve your harvest is one of the most rewarding triumphs of growing your own food and/or supporting local farmers. Whether you preserve through canning, freezing, dry storage, dehydrating or placing items in the fridge, there’s a preserving method that will fit your fancy. As […]
Making the Market Triply Accessible
Submitted by sarah@thelandco… on Mon, 10/03/2016 – 1:08pm Last week I got to witness a perfect storm moment: all the things I’ve been working so hard to accomplish with our farmers’ market wrapped up in one family encounter. We had held a promotional drawing the previous week to draw more Parkland College students out to the […]
Of Balance and Community
Submitted by Mallory Krieger on Tue, 09/27/2016 – 10:43am This morning I woke to the first crisp air of the fall. It is a welcome shift from the blazing heat of a summer out of place. The mixed signals from the Earth have had me off balance this month. The waning day length, the blooming […]
The Thing about Okra
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 09/19/2016 – 4:53pm The tomato and cucumber vines have started to wither, the eggplants seem to be frozen in time (they have stopped growing altogether) and the fall crop of greens that came up so beautifully, now looks like freshly mowed grass (thanks, bunny), but the pace suddenly seems […]
We challenge you to eat local (and we’re working hard to make eating local less of a challenge)
Submitted by sarah@thelandco… on Mon, 09/12/2016 – 5:12pm School’s back in session, the temperatures are slowly started to dip, and people will not shut up about pumpkin spice everything. Fall is tiptoeing into our lives, and I for one am very excited. Fall has always been my favorite season–I love the crisp air, the leaves […]
