“The oldest task in human history is to live
on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
- Aldo Leopold
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3 ~ Snow carrots & winter cress
A challenge of living off what’s on hand at this time of year is fresh produce. Thawed raspberries, as brilliantly red as the day I froze them, aren’t too far removed from the taste of summer. Nor in fact is frozen broccoli revived in steam. But not quite the same.
Yet I found I still have options at this cusp of late winter…
2 ~ Larder
Winter is still with us. Some thawing is in the forecast, but dawn this morning found the thermometer at 0F (-18C) in this small, cold-sink of a valley.
I thought it would be good to summarize the current status of my provisions, the starting point, here at the end of February.
1 ~ Beginning
Greetings, and welcome to the first post of this blog. New ground for me, and I hope, dear reader, that along the way we might uncover some new ground together.