Ron Finley: Food Forest

“They call areas like this throughout the United States Food deserts. I thought, you know, why not have food forests.”

Amazing Heart Farm’s Longneck Pumpkin Coconut Curry Soup

For a delicious addition to the holiday, pull out one of the Longneck Pumpkins you’re stored away from our fall harvest! If you’d like to save the pumpkin seeds simply 1) collect seeds 2) rinse them 3) place them on a newspaper to dry as pictured below. Once dry, store them in an air tight container.   …

Hot Pepper Seeds

  This afternoon, I collected all of the hot peppers I’ve dried over winter to harvest seed for the upcoming season. Several of the peppers had rotted toward the center. I threw those out. Others rattled so perfectly, I decided to save them for the sheer joy of listening some rainy day this spring. The rest I cracked open…

Winter Squash

With the view from my window looking like this: Spring feels a long ways off! But it’s just around the corner (or so I keep reminding myself). As you know, I’ve already started some seedlings, a few of which I’ll be planting outside just as soon as we’re able to work the ground. And before…