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
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.
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.
Where Fields Extended to the Sea
“As far back as anyone can remember there were always farmer-fishermen in Sagaponack.”
Light and Sweet
Preparing for the end of fall.
Wilted
Surviving the season might bring you to your hands and knees.
