Boiling birch on the left, maple on the right. Sugaring season came to an end this week.   The birches were running pretty good f...

I got a chance today to talk maple syrup cookery with Rob Ferrett on the Food Friday segement of Wisconsin Public Radio's  Central Time ...

It seems every bit appropriate to write about first fresh, green harvest of the year, watercress, on the first day of spring.  I ...

Our local food year starts, appropriately enough, with the first upwellings of sap from the maples.   Cold and clear, only barely...

We've just finished our first major kitchen renovation ever, a back-to-studs (and, in fact, logs) affair, with all new cabinets, cou...

The hen of the woods are starting to come in, pretty much on schedule this year--I expect to see them in early September and continuing ...