A guest post from the resident hunter, Keith. Hunting season starts October 3 this year. Sylvie.
This (past) weekend we hosted an English Shakespearean acting troupe which inspired me to write on hunting.
These were young city-folk who were hosted by families in The County. I try to go over the top being a good host and [...]
A plant of our hedgerows and abandoned fields that are being reconquered by the forest, the elder favors the sides of ditches and embankments - especially those with a bit of shade. Oh, it grows well enough in full sun, but it seems to appreciate the extra moisture that accumulates in ditches.
Elder is a plant [...]
I know. I am supposed to post the recipe for Pork Rillettes. But I am too tired. It’s spring after all, with its myriad tasks: making new beds, planting like crazy, transplanting like there is no tomorrow, watching the chicken scratch through the weeds, weeding!, uppotting tomatoes, feverishly writing labels… and ah! yes! morels! from [...]
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Comments(3) Should you go walking along a bottomland stream in Rappahannock County, you are likely to encounter pawpaws (or paw-paws or paw paws). You may not notice them though – unless you paid attention - because they are small under story trees that grow in clumps. Nothing majestic about a pawpaw tree! Blooming in April [...]
Read More..>>A few weeks ago, I blogged about picking up berries in the hedge rows – free wild food… well.. free as in “spend no cash”, but after several hours in the delightful mugginess and bugginess characteristic of a Virginia summer, the numerous scratches that you have collected – not matter how careful or layered you [...]
Read More..>>It rained all through last night and today – something we haven’t had in a long time. The creek which had become so low I could not hear it from the house (but unlike last year, it has not dried out completely - at least not yet) is singing again. So of course, I did [...]
Read More..>>I don’t like to throw out (I mean compost) food - even things that other people may not see as still edible.
I went wild berry picking earlier in the week (that’ll make a post fo another day) and decided to make a sorbet with some of the wild blackberries I picked. (By the way, if [...]
