Lately we’ve been drawn to stories about the farm. What goes on during these quiet, cold months?
One book we greatly enjoyed reading is Chefs on the Farm: Recipes and Inspiration from the Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts, which describes the anticipation that awaits the farm during winter months.
This is the only book where we really got to know the animals and the land as much as the people on the farm.
It’s a great winter read while starting to thinking about the coming growing season, along with the perennial classics, Northwest Maritime Garden Guide published by Seattle Tilth and Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners published by Seed Savers Exchange.
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Winter is a beginning. In the middle of a cold, dry eastern Washington winter especially on a small farm like this one, time seems to slow down.
It’s as if everything–the plants, the goats, the chickens, even the soil–is waiting to see what comes next. And the human members of this scene are waiting, too, for the slow season to pass.
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Tags: Chef, Cookbook, Farm Life, Pacific Northwest