To peel beets easily, clean and trim them, then steam the beets until they are tender. When they are cool enough to handle, the skins should slip off easily in your hands or with the help of a small paring knife.

Sal and I are like beings: We are stubborn, built for durability, and antsy on rainy days.  We both have a hard time leaving this peninsula: I am quietly content to putter around these 400 acres and Sal is too.  Granted, I have more opportunities than she does to leave on a regular basis, but …

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As Chewonki’s fiscal year wraps up and the farm season slows down, I take a few moments (hours) each year to tally up the total number of food and firewood.  The totals for this year (September 2012 – August 2013) are: 8615 pounds of vegetables (many of which were lightweight but high value, like basil) …

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Reflections from Ellie Brown, Farm Apprentice It takes a lot to plan an orchard: a lot of dreaming, a lot of time, a lot of hands. It’s exiting to work on planning a project that will have such a long lifespan and influence in this place. I will be here to plant the trees, but …

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Oh, the love the between farmer and vegetable: so crisp and sweet, so full of tending and toil, reward and riches.  All winter long, we farmers scour the pages of the seed catalogs, ogling vegetable variety names and descriptions.  Who among us is not swept away by the thought of row upon row of King …

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