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What is a Householder CSA?

A preserver-friendly arrangement

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Harriet’s excellent idea pencils out.

Lessons in food and life

‘We knew how to be poor’

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The University of Grandmothers gets Harriet Fasenfest’s attention.

A “chat” with Wendell Berry

The good-news view

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Harriet is a Berry admirer.

Praising farm wives

The spirit can exist in anyone

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Harriet always celebrates farmers, but today it’s about their partners.

Urban peasantry

Coming to terms with one’s food values

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“She was looking for yellow carrots, and I was looking for a bit of groundedness.”

Of restaurants and householders

Home cooks deserve major cred

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Do you know what a balaboosta is? Harriet wants to become one.

A preserving game plan

Preserve this — not that

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Calculate what you and your household want for next winter’s pantry.

Farmers are her friends

She also digs dirt

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Oregonians: Join Harriet in Salem in support of family farmers.

Pork Day 2011

Adding value at home

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A farm-share pig, turned into prosciutto, pancetta, guanciale, lardo, and more.

Frugal soup

Cook again

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Here’s how to make a $5 soup that can feed a family for two days.

Paying their way

Budgeting and householding

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Harriet explores the value of householding, weighed against the value of working “outside.”

Shun the photo op

When food is plain

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Every moment isn’t a Kodak moment when you’re raising food.

The meat, the butcher, and the strappy blue sandals

The lost art of butchery

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Harriet keeps a close eye on the meat she eats, from the farm to the freezer.

Eat a peach

Harriet celebrates peach-picking day

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“I offer spontaneous prose in tribute to the fleeting peachiness of the moment.”

Soil woes

Making the best of city garden soil

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Harriet’s back, and she doesn’t like the look of the soil in her garden.

Southern charm

Of food and habitat

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Harriet bids goodbye to Millard Fuller, and hello again to Southern food.

What is householding?

Making the choice to stay home

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“I’m butch, and I bake cookies.”

A sense of place — and taste

Slow Food delegates bring back stories of real food

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Artisanal foods are just what they eat in Italy.

Phyllis McGinley: a woman of her time

A piece of the puzzle

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Harriet pens a post and a poem.

Busy work

Homemaking is no small thing

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The beauty and grace available in homemaking is a perfectly acceptable way to act out one’s politics.

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Table Talk: November 17

A local-foods feast

Josh Viertel and Jennifer Maiser want to help you have a local-foods Thanksgiving. Read the transcript of their online chat.

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A quiche lesson

The crux is the crust

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