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May 2012 Newsletter
Dear Friends; Our family is just returning home from seven weeks of travel adventures, and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be back in my own kitchen, with my own good food. We’ve been traveling and tasting … Continue reading
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One Chicken, Three Meals: The Best Bargain at the Farmers’ Market
By Shannon Hayes Pardon the pun, but the one cut of meat I am most likely to see a new customer “bawk” at is a whole chicken. Our price for whole birds last year was $4.95/lb, 35% less than … Continue reading
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February 2012 Newsletter
Dear Friends; The temperature outside our door is a delightful, seasonal 10 degrees, perfect weather for some romantic Valentines’ day grilling. Grassfed filet mignon comes to mind as the perfect dinner for two, so here’s a link to an … Continue reading
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Nothing Says Love Like Filet
Shannon Hayes In the fifteen years Bob and I have been together, we’ve figured out how to orchestrate the perfect romantic evening. Flowers and chocolates were long ago dismissed. Jewelry goes largely unappreciated. Fancy restaurants or elegant stays … Continue reading
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January 2012 Newsletter
Dear Friends; Finally! The snows of winter have begun to fall, the weather is not expected to rise above 15 degrees this coming weekend, and the ground is white. Now that the holidays are behind us, I thought it … Continue reading
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Great Stew: Anyone Can Make it
Shannon Hayes Anyone can make a great stew! Very often, the simplest dishes I prepare are the ones that receive the most comments. A friend dropped in the other day to retrieve her daughter from a play … Continue reading
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December 2011 Newsletter
Dear Friends; The dark days are upon us, and I write with greetings of the season. Those of us who are looking forward to a little slow time (or perhaps seeking a few gift ideas) might be interested in … Continue reading
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Why A Farmer Would Occupy Wall Street
Every week during the growing season my husband and I cart our family’s grassfed meats to market, priced at $11/lb for pork chops, $7.50/lb for ground beef. Every week we meet someone who tells us the prices are too … Continue reading
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The Small Scale Poultry Flock
By Harvey Ussery Chelsea Green Press, ISBN: 978-1603582902 ; $39.95 Ussery is a homesteader inVirginiawho has taken his passion for poultry to the written page. He paired up with Chelsea Green to publish a phenomenal resource that delves into everything … Continue reading
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When A Farmer Hops Off The Fence
When an email from the group Food Democracy Now! landed in my inbox last week, asking farmers to occupy Wall Street, it seemed only right that I notify the subscribers of GrassfedCooking—a free monthly e-newsletter I run for other … Continue reading →