FoodInc -- THE MOVIE

if you wanna be part of this family, you gotta know how to travel

the first week we had the chicks we needed to hit the road for a few days. no problem. creasy doggie kindly lent her new friends her kennel and we took 10 ladies on the road with us.

micheal moore in his younger, less crochety days

the herbalist richard mcdonald from NM shared this with me this morning! i love it.

seaweed

slippery, predawn excursion to the windy tide pools.

we saw this lady who was probably at the end of her life.

creasy-working-doggie with a backpack on for the first time


sea palm, the most delicious in my mind and one of the cutest and more endangered seaweeds
the walk back was against the wind; we were back at camp by 8:30am laden with seaweed.

the lost coast

a couple of weeks ago neil and i journeyed out to the lost coast of ca, the western most point in the US and one of the most remote. we were there for a seaweed gathering adventure. this was unequivocally the windiest place i have ever been in my entire life. the beach = not fun = you could hardly walk = cant see because your eyes are dry = aerobic exercise just to stand in place. We drove up to the bluff above and then i though i would really die, as in be blown off the cliff for merely walking erect. the power of wind.



california lilac (Ceanothus) one of our newest and most prized medicines,
a fantastic lymphatic.

creasy however, found the inland mattole river to be the best thing that ever happened to her. the pictures dont do it justice, but she was having a private rapid run. she would run up and jump in and let herself be taken down the rapids then run the 1/4 mile back up and do it all again. awesome. no inner tube required.

BLOOD & GUTS WARNING

appologies to the vegan / ep lovers in my family in advance.


we helped dee and jeff butcher a couple of lambs last week, one for us and one for them. we hung them high in the barn overnight. so much easier than the steer!

mixology preparations.

with all the cherries being hawked roadside, we just had to find the time to preserve some of my new favorite acoutramon: the maraschino cherry. but how to make this treat without plasticization and red 40? Turns out, so easy! Pickled pearl onions to boot.