Originally posted on fourth generation farmgirl:
In the mood for something healthy and delicious? Well, I have just the thing for a nutritious and flavorful meal: kale, butternut squash, pears, dried fruit, nuts, and goat cheese–just add your favorite dressing. Some of you may not be big fans of kale, but it is really quite good, especially when combined with…
Growing up in the country and on a farm, it was commonplace to preserve as much of the summer’s harvest as possible. My parents and grandparents worked all spring, summer, and fall planting gardens, picking vegetables, tending fruit trees, picking berries, digging potatoes and then canning, freezing, and storing much of it for future use. I can still see kitchen […]
Originally posted on Meals With Mel:
I use to always love talking to my grandmother about food. We would talk about all the new recipes we’ve tried and others we wanted to still make. I vividly remember one day telling her about how I had just made Chicken and Rice casserole but with my own homemade condensed soups. She looked…
Originally posted on fourth generation farmgirl:
I’d like to start with the fact that I don’t normally get emotionally involved or gush over dessert. Yes. I enjoy decadent treats in moderation: a piece of Victoria sponge or chocolate cake on occasion. I don’t, however, just lose my mind over sweet things…….until last week. It started out innocently enough. My dad is…
There’s a wonderful, eclectic place in Lynchburg, Virginia called the Farmbasket. It started out as a roadside fruit stand in 1964, and today it has evolved into the destination for lovely plants, flowers, and statuary for the garden; specialty food items, including sweet potato biscuits as well as homemade pimento cheese (that’s pimenna cheese if you’re from the South); […]
In the mood for something healthy and delicious? Well, I have just the thing for a nutritious and flavorful meal: kale, butternut squash, pears, dried fruit, nuts, and goat cheese–just add your favorite dressing. Some of you may not be big fans of kale, but it is really quite good, especially when combined with all the other ingredients in this […]
My name is Tonya, and I grew up on a 300-acre farm in rural Virginia that has been in my family for over 100 years. After graduating from college, receiving my master’s degree in speech and language pathology, and living and working in a small city for six years, I decided to return to the place of my childhood. Here, in this rural area, on this patch of green, where for four generations my family has farmed, gardened, and lived, I, too wanted to be a part of this continuity. As a fourth generation farmgirl, I have many interests that not only include, but also go beyond the basics of farming, gardening, sheep and chicken-keeping. It is all of this and more that I plan on sharing in this blog.
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