Loretta has been through a thing or two. Even though she doesn't live with the other chickens, she has stories to tell. After she was beaten up a few times by Buster, she had to start living closer to people, so that we could keep an eye on her and so the Rhode Island reds…
Such a noble food. The cranberry beans are tender and ready. So tender you can pop them out of their shells and eat them raw.
Or if you're not feeling so adventurous, you can cook them til they are stewy and delicious.
Here's how:
“Cranberry Beans, Georgia-Style”
Four ingredient cooking. My favorite kind.
1 cup of cranberry beans…
Lucy arrived one morning in the arms of Carmen, the beloved housekeeper who removes all the bird droppings off the kitchen floor after the roving fowl view the open door as an invitation, and decide to stop in for a visit.
She was rather scrawny at first, Carmen didn't really explain where she'd gotten her from. She just…
At Tulipwood, everyone since my great-grandfather has left their mark. This is the summer of birds -- wild Guinea hens with their keets, domesticated keets a day old that we picked up from a lady in Pennsylvania, so small and fuzzy, they fit into the palm of your hand... rapidly growing chicks, turkeys that loiter…
The highlights: Picking blueberries with a Kentucky farmer for a few hours and chatting about life...Eating tomato sandwiches in his kitchen... Watching the crowds swarm around his tomatoes at the Berea farmer's market... Seeing hundreds of windmills spinning on the Kansas planes... Seeing the Kansas planes, especially during sunset... Eating Beer-Can Chicken in Denver... Strolling…
It’s 4:30am. I’m scarfing down banana, cereal and black coffee in preparation for turkey hunting. Freddie Black is on his way to pick me up. He's the chairman of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which down here is bigger than the President of the United States.
Within a few minutes we’re riding along the levy…