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December 27, 2009

Food figures big-time in the holiday mentality, whether it’s Christmas, Hanukah or Kwanza being celebrated around this time of the year or Ramadan, Thanksgiving or Chinese New Year at some other time. The centerpiece for the Thompson family feast this week was a turkey raised by FFA students at Springport High School. Only [...]

Christmas Letter

December 20, 2009

Our daughter Dory and her husband Skip came into town yesterday afternoon from Texas, so I’m not keen to be investing a lot of my scarce time with them on blogging this week. My solution is to recycle, always a winner in the CSA mindset. What I’m recycling is some verbiage developed for [...]

Take Out Season

December 13, 2009

So what do you eat at this mid-point between feasting holidays and attendant family gatherings? We managed to scrape together two meals this week that approximate the community ideal. I cooked some chili with the last of the late season tomatoes, the last of the CSA onions and a bag of Carson Arbrogast [...]

What’s Happening on Thornapple Farm

December 6, 2009

We have finally had some cold weather in Michigan over the last week. Cold weather means frost and dormancy on the farm. The harvest is over and no food is coming in to the household. Well, almost none. Weekly deliveries have been over for almost six weeks now, yet the Thompson household has [...]