It is upon us: The 2009 market season begins this Saturday, May 2. That's the Midtown Farmers' Market , of course, in south Minne...

25 April 2009, Saturday : Fished first time yest. MN Whitewater. Beautiful, caddis, limit (5), ramps, cress, HOT—91 in Rochester. Today 38 a...

The author Walter Mosely was in town recently, and he was interviewed on public radio one morning during his visit. I caught bits of the int...

We finished up sap gathering and syrup boiling a week and a half ago. We went through the woods and removed the taps from the maple trees...

The Real Bread ovens were quiet this winter, but not completely dormant. Though we took the season off from production baking, we still bak...

Ate that. Cannellini-chicken-chili stew. Some butternut squash from the market in there, too. A spare sprinkling of Roth Kase gruyere. The ...

The vernal equinox arrived at Bide-A-Wee in the midst of a snowstorm a couple weeks back, and we took our minds off the not-so-springlike w...