Submitted by Jeff Hake on Sun, 10/19/2014 – 9:33pm Sure it looks nice, but I would kick it over in a heartbeat. (courtesy of www.illinoiswildflowers.info) I did a familiar thing on Saturday. I was at Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery yet again, this time for the first session of Central Illinois Farm Beginnings. The students […]
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Fermentation Fun
Submitted by Magdalena Casper on Thu, 10/09/2014 – 10:42am Fermentation is like life. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s pretty awful and you don’t know why you waited around for a month to see what would happen with that jar of cabbage that you left sitting on the counter, only to immediately spit out the […]
Seasons
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 10/06/2014 – 6:41am The warm red, orange, and yellow tips of the leaves on the trees that were at first subtle, are becoming louder. They are reminding me that it is the time of year when we need to put things back, to store them for the long cold […]
Harvesting Beauty
Submitted by Terra Brockman on Mon, 09/29/2014 – 12:32pm October is the month of final abundance. Not only is there a sudden profusion of fall cooking greens—bok choi, tahtsai, mei qing choi, gai-lan, broccoli raab, turnip greens, mustard greens, kale, and collards —there are the amazing salad greens—lettuces with their leaves growing thicker and tastier […]
In Our Hands
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Fri, 09/19/2014 – 4:12pm I have recently discovered about myself that I have a strange preoccupation with hands. I constantly pick at my fingernails, I tap on desks and I notice peculiarities and distinguishing features of my own and the hands of people around me. Perhaps it is evolutionarily driven […]
A Fertile Foundation
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Thu, 09/11/2014 – 5:15pm I moved to Central Illinois from Southern Maine in late January of this year. I had lived in New England all of my life. There is a culture shock to that kind of move, even if it is within the same country. There are of course […]
