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Farm Tours: Goats, Horses, and Cows
Here’s a great way to spend a Saturday: driving around in rural Charlotte-ish areas, then walking around and seeing goats, horses, cattle, pigs, donkeys, plants, and bees. Yes, bees. Some folks and I gathered a couple of weeks ago to tour three farms. The first was Apple Orchard Farm (my favorite!), the second was Maple Springs (too pumpkiny and commercial), and a third one I forgot the name of (with sad animals). I took and posted quite a few pictures, because most of the animals were adorable, and the ones that weren’t were often notably sad. Apple Orchard will definitely become my go-to farm for if/when we need extra meat…
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Purple Curry, Skillet Pizza, and Eggplant-Beef Stir Fry
A veritable festival of summer cooking, largely inspired by the CSA we’re part of. Purple Curry First, we got purple carrots in one of our CSA boxes: Then we were like, what do we do with purple carrots? The answer is, apparently, eat them. So we did.
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First CSA Box: Yummy!
Our first CSA box from Know Your Farms: