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Biodynamics as Indigenous Agriculture?

This week we celebrated our first Thanksgiving as farmers. A holiday that has had so many meanings throughout the years, Thanksgiving, to us, presents an opportunity to reflect on food, indigenous peoples, and indigenous relationship to food and agriculture. Where...

Biodynamic Gardening as New Farmers

How do you find the pace and rhythm when you start a completely new life? We have been on the farm for three weeks now, and we are “living this question,” as Henning likes to say. We are Sean and Emma, a young couple who have left previous lives in science, carpentry,...

January Update

What happens on a farm during the winter? Intern Grace bottle-feeds our calf, EmblaRight now at S&S, much of our time is spent caring for the animals: our sheep, chickens, and dairy and meat cattle. Abby the dairy cow is milked twice every day. We keep most of the...

Lopez Bounty Food Experiment

Elizabeth presents some of the bounty of S&SBack in September, Henning and Elizabeth took part in the Lopez Bounty Food Experiment sponsored by the Lopez Community Land Trust and the Lopez Locavores. Read on to learn what one week of eating locally looks like at...

Milk is a Many-Splendored Thing

Milk is vital at S&S Homestead. The three or so gallons we get from our dairy cow, Abby, every morning and evening form a staple of our diet, allowing us to create and experiment with a number of products in our state-certified dairy kitchen, including butter,...

Lopez Bounty Food Experiment Week 2

Here’s another installment from Henning and Elizabeth’s month of local eating as participants in the Lopez Bounty Food Experiment this past September. September 7-14, 2014 Sunday: We attend Lutheran services at Center Church, but Judith, who comes from an evangelical...