Somewhere along the line between deciding to get some heritage turkey chicks for my 100 Metre Thanksgiving Meal in the fall, I ended up instead with three dozen hatching eggs.  If they were turkey eggs it would make sense, but they’re not.  They’re chicken eggs.  Heritage chicken eggs mind you, but chicken eggs nonetheless.  My [...]

If you read last week’s column you know that I’ve been thinking about milking my sheep and making my own gourmet cheese and yogurt. I was originally attracted by how healthy and great tasting sheep milk is supposed to be, but now I’ve come up with an even better reason.

There’s an old Spanish proverb that goes:  “Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow and ice cream from Haagen Dazs”.  Okay, I stuck the last part in there, but I bet the first part surprised you a little as well.  After all, when people see a sheep they think about [...]

A friend of mine went crazy around mid-February. She started telling everyone who would listen – and even those who wouldn’t – that spring had hatched. Now it’s true that our groundhog never saw his shadow. And it’s also true that over the last month the temperatures have been hanging out on the upside of [...]

The Olympics are finally over and for me it’s not a moment too soon. I’m exhausted. One more week and who knows where I might have ended up? I never knew that watching the games could be such an overwhelming responsibility. By turn I had to will the rain to stop falling, the fog to [...]