We wait and wait for the first local sweet strawberry and then suddenly the season ends. Lucky for us, Oregon’s other fine berries tempt us with their marvelous colors, flavors and versatility. For berry lovers who like the story behind the berry as well as good recipes, you can’t go …
a Note on Apples I am watching my green cherry tomatoes as they ripen one by one, feeling slightly deprived because one is just not enough. We wait and wait or pay dearly for early local tomatoes until SUDDENLY, in late summer we have more ripe tomatoes than we know …
Harriet Fasenfest’s A Householder’s Guide to the Universe published by Tin Press Books is available now.
by Harriet Fasenfest For anyone who knows me it comes as no surprise that I offer this small treatise on alternative economics. More then an academic tome, In Search of the Seamless, attempts to breakdown the very premise of economic systems themselves by suggesting another way of seeing ourselves and …
Join urban householder Harriet Fasenfest and friends in her backyard canning kitchen to learn everything you need to know about putting up the harvest. Presented in an easy and approachable format, Preserving with Friends offers safe and reliable steps for making jam, canning fruits and tomatoes, making pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, …
Welcome to the householding pages. I will be writing from time to time. I hope you will enjoy it. For a while now it will be harvest and my attention will be split. Ahh, I have just cooked the gravensteins for sauce. But besides the harvest, I’m written out. What …
We Should All Be Peasants Now We should all be peasants now. The phrase keeps returning to me. But what does being a peasant mean and why would I want to live that way? I think about this for a reason. It seems there has been a new round of …
Filling Up Your Stores When I first started making, teaching (as in how-to) and gifting jam, folks would invariable suggest I should go into business. Though I understood it as a compliment, I was struck how quickly folks suggested I should go to market. But I’m an old timer. I …
Dear Smarty Pants I’ve been thinking about trust. How its the bedrock of all relationships. I’ve been thinking about the economy and the environment and the way our business and political leaders have been minding them. I’ve been listening to all the pundits and economic forecasters posit on when things …
Sacrifice Stew In a recent broadcast of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman told her guest, the award-winning investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn , “The most hit word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is the word “austerity” in 2010.” I acknowledged Amy Goodman in my recent book because her reporting, her show, …