Category Archives: Farm Living

  • Vegetables for Dessert? Flourless Chocolate Orange Beet Cake

    Submitted by Marisa on Wed, 01/02/2012 - 5:24
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    It seems that everywhere the same refrain is heard over and over again “Eat your vegetables”. As a parent, it is one of my greatest anxiety’s that my children are possibly eating enough of them. We grow them, the kids pick them and help prepare them but will they always eat them? Um, no. So [...]

  • Stinging Nettles: Local Superfood

    Submitted by Marisa on Wed, 30/03/2011 - 7:14
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    Nettles are the first tasty green on our farm that shakes off winter’s spell. We reward this hardy plant’s vigor by eating it. Nettles, as many of you have experienced, fight back. The hairs on the underside of Nettle leaves contain small amounts of formic acid. This is the same substance that is in bee’s [...]

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