Sweet Local Farm

This is a obviously a farm blog. I love to garden. I love the challenge of starting with a teeny tiny seed, nurturing it and providing the proper care so it can become a full grown, food producing plant. That process is exciting and challenging, but then you are left with the food- the fruit or vegetable you spent hours fussing over. Now you have to eat it! That brings me to my second love, cooking!

Last night I watched Julie and Julia. It is the tale of a young woman like myself blogging along as she cooks the entire collection of recipes from Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in one year. It was a real blog, a real book, and now a real movie that is probably “on demand” on your cable television right now. If you love food or blogging, I recommend it. It inspired me to feature more recipes on this blog in the future so those of us that are growing all kinds of weird, heirloom veggies, like purple carrots or zebra striped tomatoes, can share our experiences of cooking them.

So here is a link back to one of our most popular recipes on this blog, the Skillet Upside Down Pear Cake.

I found a fabulous recipe for Carrot and Squash Curry Soup on The Pioneer Woman’s blog. It uses yellow squash and carrots, both of which I have from the garden. I pulled three beautiful carrots out of the ground:

I fed the carrot tops to the goats. They loved to have something green to nibble on:

The Shriners stopped by today. They asked us a few weeks ago if we could store their drum core wagon in our barn for the winter. We were happy to help them out. Here is their van in the barn:

It made me a little nervous to put so much weight on the floor, but it was fine. Here is the wagon that will stay in the barn till March:

Looks like it would make a great hay ride to me!