Category: Food Sources
At Last, a Confession: We Eat Meat
It is high time we confessed: we eat meat. The message we are trying to convey with this particular good food experience (a vegetarian meal prepared for guests in Seattle about ten years ago) is that there is wonderful good taste and variety available in natural, whole food for people who want to be healthy. What is more, for people who choose to stop eating unhealthful processed food full of salt, sugar, fat, and chemicals that enhance taste and extend shelf life, good nutritious food is available and affordable.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread…
Bread was truly the “staff of life” for both the peasant and the nobleman for centuries. In the Middle Ages, for example, a majority of the population – mostly peasants – ate 2 to 3 pounds of bread a day. Today, even with government recommendations of 6 to 8 ounces of “grain equivalents” a day, most Americans are eating about half as much bread as they did just 40 years ago.
Double X Bar Ranch – Stewards of the Land
A descendant of generations of Montana ranchers and farmers, Tim Dusenberry, owner and operator of Double X Bar Ranch, is the steward of nearly 600 acres of farmland where he raises 135 head of beef cattle, 40+ pigs, and uncounted laying hens just a few miles from the city limits of Helena.
Johnson’s Nursery and Gardens
If you were to eat a dinner consisting only of Montana’s top agricultural products, here’s what you’d have in front of you: steak, a potato (no butter or sour cream, sorry), a big piece of bread, a cold glass of beer, and a piece of black cherry pie. What happened to that salad or side serving of veggies?
Back to the Future: Spelt in its Place
What do farmers in Montana’s Golden Triangle today and those living in the Fertile Crescent nearly 3000 years ago have in common? Dry climate, grasslands, …
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs! Beautiful Eggs!
During the height of the Pandemic, we were able to get these gorgeous eggs from Oddfellow Inn and Farm – delivered!! It was such fun to scoop the carton from front porch, open it with great anticipation, and see a rainbow of colors: pale green, khaki green, cream, brown, and white.
Is This the End of the Small Boat Fisherman?
What’s a guy to do when life slaps him in the face? When a roll of the boat knocks him to the
deck? When a rogue wave drenches him in water? He gets up, dries himself off, and figures out a way.
Pete Knutson has always been the kind of guy to find a way around the hurdles and challenges life tosses his way.