Cooking Up a Story

There is probably no one left in the food and farming community who hasn’t heard the name Polyface, the Shenandoah Valley super-farm famous for its lush pastures, happy animals and natural husbandry overseen by self described “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin. The farm has been featured in books and films, including Food, Inc. and Michael Pollan’s [...]

Roadside Vegetable Stand

Spring is in full swing here in the Mid-Atlantic. The danger of frost is pretty much past, which means no more obsessively checking the weather forecast and fretting over row covers for tender seedlings, or scrambling to lug flats of tomatoes and peppers indoors each night as the temperatures drop. The trees are in full [...]

Livestock Auction at Dill’s

On our farm, Quite Contrary, one of the most exciting plans we have for this season, is to to add a few goats to our homestead for milk, free fertilizer, and also because they are so adorable. I spent months over the winter researching breeds, proper conformation, dietary needs, space requirements and everything else I could [...]

A Mid-Atlantic Farmer’s Perspective

My name is Joya and welcome to my little farm. I run a small, sustainable market garden in Sussex County, Delaware. Here in the center of the Delmarva Peninsula, we are two hours from any major metropolitan area and we are right in the midst of our region’s agricultural center. Chickens, corn and soy are [...]

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Joel Salatin Polyface Farm

Roadside Vegetable Stand

Livestock Auction at Dill’s

A Mid-Atlantic Farmer’s Perspective