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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...

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Rice Recipes that Will Fill You Up and Make you Smile

June 11, 2020
Tagged as: recipes, rice

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,...

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Learning About Growing Rice from a Children’s Book

June 9, 2020
Tagged as: california, rice

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...

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Wheat-Based Recipes You May Want to Give a Go

May 27, 2020
Tagged as: recipes, wheat

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...

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We Will Be Taking Things Up A Notch Thanks to a Summer Intern!

May 18, 2020

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...

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Mushroom Recipes You Will Love

May 11, 2020
Tagged as: mushrooms, recipes

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...

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Can my local butcher help with the shortage of meat now?

May 7, 2020
Tagged as: beef, protein

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...

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Tips on a Container Garden — What I Learned by Trying Containers

May 5, 2020
Tagged as: garden, 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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Five Avocado Recipes You Really Need to Check Out

April 19, 2020
Tagged as: avocado, recipes

It seems like avocado recipes were a good way to follow up the tour of an avocado farm and the interview with a farmer sharing tips on how to find the perfect avocado. Not only...

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Want to take an avocado farm tour? Sit down and enjoy the ride.

April 14, 2020
Tagged as: avocado, california

Join me as I tour an avocado farm. This video was shot in late October as we looked at young fruit on the tree. Those same avocados are being picked and packed as we publish...

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