agriculture – Heather's Hearth

Garlic Planting!

We have expanded our garlic plot this year to 4000! This might not be much to some of my farmer friends who plant much more than this, but for me to plant this many, means that we can at least start selling some next year for the first time. This …

Ben Falk on “Good Design”

Great lecture on Ben Falk’s point of view of good design systems and his business Whole Systems Design in Vermont.

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

Wendell Berry

Why being a Foodie isn’t Elitist

The Good Slaughter: A Proud Meat Cutter Shares His Processing Floor

Transition Time

The last week of culinary school coincides with me flying home to Ontario and in just a few weeks changing my lifestyle dramatically. Back to a farm-where the soil will speak to me again. Food will still be my central focus though, it being the main topic that goes through …

How Seriously Do You Take Your Food?

I’m all for knowing where your food comes from. This video just shows an example of how far you can go taking the an extreme angle…With so much negativity towards buzz words such as organic, local and sustainable it’s pretty awesome just to laugh at it once in awhile!