Salem’s big event of the year–the Community Center’s Al Fresco Dinner–drew several hundred people last night for a menu designed around locally grown ingredients. But for my money, the most spectacular display was the incredible array of local cheeses. Among them were several from the sheep farm where we purchased our Friesian Ewes, 3-Corner Field […]
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First it looked like War of the Worlds, then everything went black. Giant thunderheads marched across the evening sky. Flashes of lightning illuminated the horizon all around. As darkness fell, the lights dimmed. The clock on our stove blinked off. The computer would not turn on. Then, the power completely failed. This was Friday night, […]
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Our friends Jared and Shannon of Taproots farm had their first chicken butchering of the season on Friday and we lucked out: only one of the birds had not already been spoken for and he was a big one–at least seven pounds, I’m guessing. Brother-in-law Tom went to work turning that chicken into the dinner […]
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