It’s the age ol’ question that continues to perplex us – which came first? The chicken or the egg? Most days, eggs are far more likely to be part of the breakfast mix than that...
Cranberry Recipes Tested on Farm and in the City
- November 24, 2020
- Tagged as: cranberries, fruit, holidays, recipes, wisconsin
As mentioned in the episode where we interviewed Wisconsin cranberry farmer Amber Bristow, both her family and mine have favorite recipes that are made for the holidays every year! I also discovered a new one…
The Right Way to Cut a Watermelon? A Watermelon Knife?
- August 3, 2020
- Tagged as: Florida, food prep, fruit, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, watermelon
Watermelon, the fruit of summer, no matter how you slice and dice them, they are always refreshing! But have you ever thought to yourself, I need a watermelon knife for all that slicing and dicing?…
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...
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…
Five Avocado Recipes You Really Need to Check Out
- April 19, 2020
- Tagged as: avocado, fruit, oils, 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…
The search for the perfect avocado is a search many of us have been on. But avocado farmers like Mimi Holtz, who is known simply as Mimi Avocado online, know what to look for and...
The latest episode of Grounded by the Farm speaks to something many of us are facing this week whether we are at home in big cities or rural areas — we are focused on having...
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