On today’s show we have NY Times Garden Q and A columnist Leslie Land on dahlias, summer squash and cephalarias; Millbrook horsewoman Cari Swanson on how to ride the sitting trot; fun things to do now that it is finally tomato season; a reading from John Donne; and we are absolutely thrilled to have Ilana [...]
The Flea Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It suck’d me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know’st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead; Yet this enjoys before it [...]
It is finally tomato season, the first of this fabulous berry making its appearance in the market – yes, it’s a berry, a fruit, not a vegetable although it is used as one. I know most of you know that, but I still occasionally run into someone for whom that is a disconcerting shock. Now [...]
On today’s show we have the New York Times’ Leslie Land on what butterflies like to eat and what to do with your beans, Cari Swanson of Windrock Farm on horse biomechanics, Alex Tuller on local farmhouse feta (from Millbrook Farmhouse Cheese on Route 82 just south of Millbrook), the season’s first tomatoes, and what [...]
Dance as a Means of Communication Indubitably no other art form has been so inaptly names as the “modern dance.†Not only is the phrase non-descriptive, but it is markedly inaccurate, since there is absolutely nothing modern about modern dance. It is, as a matter of fact, virtually basic dance, the oldest of all dance [...]
(As prepared and read by Alex Tuller for the July 21, 2005 podcast.) Pasta Fresh Feta Purple Basil finely sliced cherry tomatoes salt & pepper I don’t use amounts for this, I just use whatever I have. Boil water, add salt once boiling. Add pasta, I use gemelli because I like it, but penne or [...]
Working students at Cari Swanson’s Windrock Farm enjoy a cool break from barn chores. Cari has three international students, one from Germany and two from France, and three local students working and learning the fundamentals of barn management. Student’s ages range from 12 to 20.
Alex Tuller fishes for brown trout on the Roeliff Jansen Kill River near Gallatin, New York. No doubt Alex is fishing her favorite fly, the parachute adams.
On today’s show we have the New York Times’ Leslie Land on brugmansia, lovage, sorrel and – yuck – humping Japanese beetles, Cari Swanson on buying horses for children, Dean Temple roasts a muscovy duck on an open fire with a dash of port and apricot, a reading from Matthew Zapruder’s American Linden, and the [...]
AMERICAN LINDEN When you’d like to remember the notion of days, turn to the barn asleep on its hill, a red shoulder holding the weight of clouds. You could stand still for so many moments. So little is over and over required, letting the wind brush your crown. The lathes of tobacco swing into autumn. [...]