About a dozen members of my family have enjoyed playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) this summer. I do a bit Animal Crossing farming a bit while others bring their passions for sports teams, cooking,…
Checking out Almond Trees on California Farm Visits
- June 24, 2020
- Tagged as: almonds, california, nuts, protein
Almond trees weren’t part of my world growing up. The latest episode of Grounded by the Farm, I talk with Dino Giacomazzi about growing almonds and his family’s new business with flavored almonds. When I…
Since we are talking with rice farmer Matthew Sligar this week, we wanted to make sure you knew how to make good use of some of that rice you have in the kitchen! Don’t forget,…
This post includes an affiliate link for the book. Using and purchasing through that link may generate income for this site. As I prepared for the interview with Matthew Sligar of Rice Farming TV about…
A Rice Farmer Who Loves Farming, Food & YouTube — Meet Matthew Sligar
- June 9, 2020
- Tagged as: california, grain, rice, staple
While I didn’t meet a rice farmer til I was an adult, I have a lot of them to thank for a lifetime of enjoying rice! I’ve had the chance to meet and talk…
As I talked with Michelle Jones about her family’s wheat farm, I craved all the wheat-based recipes and comfort foods. And with the way so many of us are accessing the food system differently, although…
Wheat is one of those basic building blocks of diets for many of us and yet, it’s not something we get to know well from the farm perspective. I realized that recently as friends have...
Grounded by the Farm is excited to announce a new team member for the summer. We bet you will notice the contributions of a summer intern will be noticed both here on the website and…
There have been a lot of things happening in America’s food system over the past few weeks and while we have talked about some elements in various episodes so far, the big picture still is...
Last week my family had a funny conversation about mushrooms recipes. It immediately brought up the podcast conversation about mushrooms with Scott at J-M Farms. And I realized it was just a year ago that I…
As we have been discussing recently in various episodes and posts, the pandemic that we are all dealing with is causing complications for the food supply. And this week we are seeing grocery stores and…
Tips on a Container Garden — What I Learned by Trying Containers
- May 5, 2020
- Tagged as: gardening, Missouri, vegetables
Interviewing Natasha Nicholes for this week’s episode talking about gardening reminded me about previous years of my container garden. This spring and my need to stay quarantined makes me wonder whether I will get much…
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