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Planting Garlic
Did that last post make your mouth water? Are you craving some creamy roasted garlic spread on tender slices of Italian style bread? Perhaps a side of simple pasta with a browned butter sauce topped with grated Mizithra cheese? I can tell you from experience that roasting garlic grown a few yards from your kitchen…
Beneficial Weeds
A new look at weeds A weed is a weed is a weed. Except when it is a useful tool around the Farm. We look at weeds differently now that we are living in the country and striving to be more sustainable. Weeds as food Certain weeds with attractive flowers are visited by bees collecting…
How to Preserve Lettuce: Egg Rolls
About this time of year as the weather turns hot, lettuce in the garden will either turn bitter or bolt. This cool season crop is not suited to temperatures in the 80’s. Oft times we find ourselves with an abundance of this delicious and nutritious crop. It can turn into a zucchini type proposition where…
Five Feline Farm Plant Sale
Stop by the Farm this Saturday, May 17 or Sunday, May 18 afternoon from 1:00PM to 4:00PM. We are offering heirloom variety tomatoes and peppers for sale. These plants have been raised from seed right here at FFF. Naturally grown. Watered with rain water. Interesting varieties such as Chocolate Cherry Tomato, Vintage Wine, Abe Lincoln…
Tomatoes in November?
Yes! We still have a few ripe garden tomatoes. It has frosted here in Central Illinois and the tomato plants are gone from the garden which means the remaining green and half ripe ones are in the garage to slowly finish ripening. End of the season tomatoes are not sizeable enough for slicing, although diced…
It’s Asparagus Time!
Don’t get caught eating slime. Fresh asparagus is nothing like slimy canned stuff. Not that I’ve ever decided to try the slimy canned stuff. It just never appealed. But fresh, oh my. And to pick a handful, walk straight to the kitchen and have it on the table in under 30 minutes. Well, it just…



