Soil Farmer Talks to Water Farmer
I sat down with my friend and oyster farmer Karen Rivara one Saturday night to conduct this interview. We began with beer and oysters,…
FARMGIRL ANGST: Soil Farmer Talks to Water Farmer
Karen Rivara, of the Shellfisher Preserve, on breeding oysters to Marvin Gaye and why farmers complain.
The Little Things
In the land of large groundnuts…
Plowshare
The first time on a mammoth tractor is not for the faint of heart.
S.O.P.
The off-season is spent in the depths of food safety.
That Gives It All Its Flavor
Variety may be the color of life, but sometimes a blank palette is enough. • Photograph by Lindsay Morris
Cuke Protection
A lot of things like to eat cucumbers.
Coq Au Vignette
Marilee Foster doesn’t know if the person who dumped their rooster at her farm intended for her to eat the bird and was thus making a gift. Or if they blithely miscalculated the fractious result a male of fighting age would have upon her checkered lot.
The Story of Chicken
Chickens were banished from our farm for the third time about 10 years ago. We’d lost our best ratting dogs, the rats became too numerous and my father’s temper blew.
Eileen Roaman-Catalano and Mark Catalano
The house was on fire next door when they bought it. It had little foundation, and by the following spring they’d just begun planting fruit trees on the consumed house’s lot.
Should We Hunt?
A debate about whether we should or shouldn’t shoot an abundant source of free-range protein can only happen in a society where the gross majority of people are either vegetarian or perfectly content with the meat they can buy at the supermarket. Our meadows have given way to suburbia and so has much of our mindset and habits.
Should We Hunt Our Deer? A Farmer Weighs in
This sets me apart from almost everyone else involved in the deer debate. Mainly it alienates me from the people who passionately care about the deer herds, but do not and cannot fully provide for them.
