When my friend Jeannie invited me to Fiber Rain, Appleton's yarn art themed downtown extravaganza, I knew I had to go. Jeannie and I don't knit at all, but ever since Mrs. Rossmeissel assigned her to me in second grade, we have shared an avid interest in spinning a yarn. We also share a love [...]
We shamefully dissed a perfectly good vegetable earlier this season and we’d like to apologize. Mea Cupla, Kohlrabi, Mea Maxima Culpa. Fortunately, the Kohlrabi has very thick skin, which, as it turns out, is what led us astray. Sheer laziness and a ridiculous refusal to step out into the cold led me to discover that [...]
My friend Tami and I found ourselves in a win-win-win situation earlier this spring when a representative from the Laughing Fox Farms paid us a visit. Mitch Eggers, our sons' friend, offered us a share in a new Community Supported Agriculture farm operated just outside out town. Fresh Produce? Win. The chance to support an [...]