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Roasting Tomatoes, Grilling and Freezing Too!

Roasting Tomatoes, Grilling and Freezing Too!

Mamma Mia! We have an abundance of paste-type tomatoes at the Second Street Chicken Ranch. Thankfully, there are several easy…
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Huffington Post Highlight’s Blog Post

Huffington Post Highlight’s Blog Post

The Huffington Post Features CdA Coop Garlic Scape Recipe The Coeur d’Alene Coop had the honor of being featured in…
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Garlic Scapes – A Simple Pesto Recipe

Garlic Scapes – A Simple Pesto Recipe

The Great Garlic Scape Last fall I planted about 50 bulbs of Spanish Roja garlic — a hard neck variety…
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How to Make Chive Blossom Vinegar

How to Make Chive Blossom Vinegar

The chive blossoms at the 2nd St. Chicken Ranch are outstanding this year.  I have several clumps of chives that…
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Cinco de Mayo Pesto

Cinco de Mayo Pesto

The May 2011 issue of Bon Appetit has a great recipe for Chive Pesto.  In addition to chives it also calls for…
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Got Green Tomatoes? This Recipe Takes the Cake

Got Green Tomatoes? This Recipe Takes the Cake

I’m still plucking pinkish-orange tomatoes out from under their plastic cocoon, but I also know the abundance of greenies hanging…
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Winter. A time to breathe. A time to rest. A time to recoup. Savor every season for what it is. Look at nature and follow her lead. (Oh, and I'm pretty sure that little wood nymph is studying a seed catalog!!)The winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was, with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest, of going within our homes, within ourselves and taking in all that we have been through, all that has passed in this full year which is coming to a close... like nature and the animal kingdom around us, this time of hibernation is so necessary for our tired limbs, our burdened minds.

Our modern culture teaches avoidance at a max at this time; alcohol, lights, shopping, overworking, over spending, comfort food and consumerism.
And yet the natural tug to go inwards as nearly all creatures are doing is strong and the weather so bitter that people are left feeling that winter is hard, because for those of us without burning fires and big festive families, it can be lonely and isolating. Whereas in actual fact winter is kind, she points us in her quiet soft way towards our inner self, towards this annual time of peace and reflection, embracing the darkness and forgiving, accepting and loving embracing goodbye the past year.

"Winter takes away the distractions, the buzz, and presents us with the perfect time to rest and withdraw into a womb like love, bringing fire & light to our hearth".

.. and then, just around the corner the new year will begin again, and like a seed planted deep in the earth, we will all rise with renewed energy once again to dance in the sunlight

Life is a gift ❤ a Happy winter to you all...

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