This May, my family all came home to Indiana to celebrate my grandmother's 85th birthday. We were sitting around the dining room ta...

Growing up it was an annual fall tradition to make the trip to   Eberly's Orchard , near my grandparents' house in North Liberty,...

I'm very excited to have this guest post and recipe from my friend Abra Berens , a talented chef and farmer who splits her time betwe...

I'm writing this from a lake house in Michigan . The lake is frozen over, the high today is 18, the low is -6, and there's over...

One Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, I found myself tromping through the woods along the Patuxent River, outside Bowie, Maryland (pronou...

It's getting to be that gloriously overwhelming time of year when just about everything is ripe. Just last week at the Mt. Pleasant...

It was a big week for me and my writerly pursuits. Both pieces I have been working on came out within two days of each other. The first o...

This post comes from my friend, former NELP student, and now guest blogger, Cae Keenan! Though I have read a lot of Cae's writing befor...

M y good friends Erik and Abra got married two weekends ago at Bare Knuckle Farm (where Abra is a business partner/farmer) in Northport, M...

A few months ago, Whitney Brown, a talented cake baker and Folklorist who is writing her thesis on the local food movement of Carrboro, NC w...

I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a hot minute this past weekend, and pretty much went directly from the Detroit airport to the Jewish deli-t...

This is a story of two friends, a whole lotta manual labor, and a dream of growing delicious, organic goodness. Abra and Jess have started t...

It was a bitterly cold day in the thumb of Michigan--perfect for pie baking! A lesson from mother (Chief Pie Expert in Residence) to son (Ap...