Biochar Update: Potato Harvest and Data Collection

One of my favorite crops to harvest is potatoes.  I love pushing my hands through the soil, searching by feel for the little spuds, and grabbing just enough for a batch of oven-baked fries or sausage, potato, and greens soup or red onion-potato-feta frittata.  Sounds kind of romantic, pastoral, right?  And it is.  Until you…

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Fresh Sour Cherry Pie

fresh sour cherry pie

My boys have spent the last two and a half days hanging out in the sour cherry trees in our front yard.  We sampled the not-quite-ripe cherries Monday afternoon, and Tuesday morning they popped out of bed and proceeded to breakfast from the limbs of trees. I joined them as soon as I could, in…

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