One of the best memories from my childhood is about my summer trips to the little village in Ural Mountains. We would spend our days swimming in the lake, and in the evenings we would take a walk to...
Book Review: The End Of Food by Paul Roberts Review by Darel Anderson Roberts believes that our world food supply system is inefficient for a number of reasons and could easily collapse. To...
By The Peaceful Plate My grandparents must have had vivid memories of “going without” during the Great Depression. They tended to squirrel away free napkins and ketchup packets from...
Mehaffey Tree Farm located off of I40 at Exit 20 in beautiful Haywood County, North Carolina has been in operation as a family farm since 1984. When owners, Walt and Mary Mehaffey, retired from their...
By Grab Your Spoon The clocks have gone back and the nights are drawing in, it’s as dark when I get up as when I come home from work and my thoughts are turning to the approaching festive season. The...
By The Accidental Locavore As the Accidental Locavore, I’m a good person to talk about not overdoing it at this time of year, however as Anne Maxfield, overdoing it at Thanksgiving has become my new...
By Pick-A-Pepper with Photographs by Rebecca Allen These nice fall days are the perfect time to start turning apples into applesauce. For relatively cheap you can often get bushels of seconds (the...
By The Peaceful Plate It started out innocently enough. Me: What’s for lunch today? Coworker: I brought a frozen meal, but I think I might go out and get a salad. Me [silently judging her for...
I have been making a ton of tomato sauce lately. I still have salsa from last year, so it has been pretty much tomato sauce this year. But a few days ago, after making some enchiladas, I thought...
By The Peaceful Plate Henry, our adopted dog, will eat anything. I’ve caught him with chunks of lint he’s thieved from the laundry room trash. Rocks and mulch from the back yard are...