Blue Speckled Teparies
Steve> These beans were incredibly fast growing. They first sprouted up after 5 days! The flowers arrived at about 5 weeks and they were small lilac blossoms. The seem to...
Steve> These beans were incredibly fast growing. They first sprouted up after 5 days! The flowers arrived at about 5 weeks and they were small lilac blossoms. The seem to...
I promise that tomorrow we'll be back to food, but today was an eventful day. I have some major national papers calling me about all this and unfortunately, the question...
"The farmers need to develop a sense of humor!"This is what was going around as a quote from one of the organizers of Slow Food Nation on Saturday at the...
There’s a wonderful singer in Italy named Mina. She’s known as the girl with an orchestra in her throat. At one point, Frank Sinatra wanted to take her on tour...
As usual, I'm late. The place looks like a mess. That little machine there is a brush mower and I finally started, getting ready to plant the bean trials. But...
Normally this space is dedicated to posts about soaking beans or pruning cactus. Unfortunately, a recent book by someone supposedly fighting the good fight for pure, good, local food has...
It seems every deadline I could imagine came up at once, including the manuscript to my book on Heirloom Beans. We've been having a heat wave and I was starting...
The new growth on my biggest cactus plant is screaming, "Eat me!" How can I say no? I've read instructions for boiling cactus and they are all over the map....
As I mentioned earlier, we participated in a really fun event called A Taste of Tamales by the Bay. Joan and I went more to help a good cause but...
Continuing with the stuffed poblano chile experiments, my next filling was wild rice and homemade chorizo. After preparing the chiles, I cooked some of my homemade chorizo and then added...
Rancho Gordo agreed to join the Benchmark Institute's event, A Taste of Tamales by the Bay, and that meant beans for at least 200 people. I had no idea how...