August Gardening Advice for Manchester
Editor’s note: Manchester resident, Jennifer Fairfield, owns and operates the Garden Mill in Chelsea, serves on the Manchester Community Garden Committee, and volunteers with the school gardens at Klager and the MECC. by Jennifer Fairfield Well OK – summer has finally arrived! And not a moment too soon, as far as my tomatoes and eggplants […]
Recipe: Pulled Pork Carnitas
by Jessica Bushaw Pulled Pork Carnitas 4 lb boneless pork shoulder or butt roast, fat trimmed slightly and then cut into large 2″ cubes 1 onion, ends cut off, halved and peeled the juice of 1 medium orange or 4 tiny clementines (save the spent halves) 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice 2 cups water 2 bay […]
Recipe: Chicken Broil Butterball Soup
My grandfather’s parents moved to Michigan from Russia when they were teenagers. They did not speak Russian, however, but German as they were part of a group of Germans who’d been living in Russia for many generations along the Volga river. Known as “Russian Germans” or “Volga Germans”, they brought their culinary culture with them […]
Foraging Manchester: Gill-Over-The-Ground
Editor’s Note – If you are not familiar with a plant, consult an edible plant guide and/or an expert before you eat it. These articles are intended to introduce these edibles but not to be used as the sole source for identifying them. I’m sure you’ve seen it creeping over the ground through your garden […]
Recipe: Make Your Own Chèvre – Goat Cheese from Grocery Store Goat Milk
I noticed a few weeks back that along with the myriad of plant-based alternative milks, the Manchester Market carries quarts of goats milk in the dairy section. I am a huge fan of goat cheese and DIY projects and so decided to make my own — with spectacular results! For under $4 you can make […]
Recipe: First Crop Strawberry Jam
Step 1. Visit DeGroots Strawberry Farm in Gregory, Michigan and pick a lot of strawberries. Just kidding. But, if you want the freshest, ripest berries (which make the best jam) find a place you can pick them yourself and make jam the same day. Step. 2. Assemble your ingredients and supplies. You need: 6 […]
Foraging Manchester: The Linden Tree
Editors Note – This article is part of a new series, Foraging Manchester, which will investigate all of the good stuff to eat growing around us. If you are not familiar with a plant, consult an edible plant guide and/or an expert before you eat it. These articles are intended to introduce these edibles but […]
Foraging Manchester: Morels
Editors Note – This article is part of a new series, Foraging Manchester, which will investigate all of the good stuff to eat growing around us. If you are not familiar with a plant (or fungus), consult an edible plant guide and/or an expert before you eat it. These articles are intended to introduce these edibles but […]
Poetry: Four Benot the Sixth – A Lyric on Seasons by Gemma Pink
Gold became ice A sickly crackling metamorphosis A false beauty of promise Made fierce and unable By the bite of the furnaced A mystic creature Long since escaping the realm Of comprehension Of wonder, striped chocolate On a pillow now undone Captured and bottled Surfacing eternal youth of the many Just beyond the grasp A […]
May Gardening Advice for Manchester
Editor’s note: Manchester resident, Jennifer Fairfield, owns and operates the Garden Mill in Chelsea, serves on the Manchester Community Garden Committee and volunteers with the school gardens at Klager and the MECC. by Jennifer Fairfield Do April showers really bring May flowers? Maybe it will be May showers bringing the flowers, since we really didn’t […]
