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Available for purchase at the Brickyard Farms website, Schuler Books, Kazoo Books, and Amazon
Articles about the book in the Kalamazoo Gazette and Grand Rapids Press.
Reviews by Olga Bonfiglio and on Amazon.
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Comfort
It never ceases to amaze me how life will soften our hearts when we let it. The son of a dear friend of mine called to share that his mother had been taken to the hospital and had gone through … Continue reading
Challenges Mean Finding Solutions
It’s been quite a week! We’ve been busy transplanting hundreds of tomato plants for the up-coming market season. This involves moving the trays that are transplanted to our hoop-houses for them to ‘beef-up’ and harden-off for selling. With temperatures above … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Farmer's Market, Rants, Raves
Tagged brickyardfarms, essays, food, friendships, hoop-houses, rants, raves, tomatoes, weather
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What Goes Around Comes Around
It sometimes seems like it’s the little things. An unexpected smile or phone call, someone shares a story that touches you. I was in the bank today making a deposit, when one of the tellers shared with me that when … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Farm News, Recipes
Tagged essays, food, friendships, generous person, greens, poor choices, recipes, unhappy lives
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Filling Our Larder: Frugal Meets Flavor
There was a time when nothing was wasted. Everything had a viable use or was shared with others less fortunate. In this land of abundance, many of us are learning to tighten our belts a little more, as the economy … Continue reading
Posted in Farm News, Raves, Recipes
Tagged brickyardfarms, canning, essays, farm, food, friendships, fruit, larder, locavore, raves, recipes, self-sustaining
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Simple Abundance
What a week! Temperatures in the 90′s, endless weeds to pull and more produce than you can imagine. We went to market Saturday with carrots, beets, new potatoes, peas, Swiss chard, onions and kale. The onions, carrots and new potatoes … Continue reading
Treading Water
There are things about farming one can’t control. For example, the weather. In May, when we received 14 inches of rain in one week, we stayed stoic. We did not panic… we waited to see how the garlic and the … Continue reading
How the Land Inspires
Brickyard Farms is celebrating tens years of working the land. Val and I along with Val and Cate before me, have fed many people over the years from these five and one half acres. We can’t remember a time when … Continue reading
Simple
Again and again spring is here and not here. Forsythia bloom, yet the wind blows bitter off the lake. I wear a hat and winter coat to water the hoop house and enter the humid 70 degree warmth. The lettuce, … Continue reading
Quietly Doing Our Thing
My original intent for this blog was to introduce both our farm and my new memoir/cookbook: Basics with a Twist: Life & Food at Brickyard Farms. With the book’s arrival being approximately 3 weeks away, I thought it was time … Continue reading
Posted in Book Excerpts, Essays, Raves
Tagged book, brickyardfarms, excerpts, farm, friendships
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Brickyard’s Brew Ha Ha
I alluded two weeks ago about making beer at the farm. There are many beer drinkers in our midsts, and it was getting a little expensive to keep up the supply, while holding true to the budget constraints of winter … Continue reading
