@aliciaawalter

Can’t is won’t says my father. I used to work in a tomato canning factory. It was someone else’s good idea about how to use market seconds and over-fondled grocery store heirlooms. The word concasse was my favorite part. My heavy to
It’s #tomatoglut season! This is about 1/16 of what we’ll be processing this week. Please send #balljars and wholesale orders. 😬🤞
Took these new Upstate Abundance baby taters from @row7seeds and boiled them in salted vinegar-ed water until they were just so and tossed them with fried black and yellow mustard seeds and cumin and bay. A splash more vinegar and a mugwort lancet in
Cuban oregano. You should let me love you.
Winter squash! But, of course.
This corn was slim and spritely under a squeaky husk. Maroon silk. The cob tender and sweet raw. I tentatively put a few one inch pieces in the wood-fired oven, they emerged charred and surprising. Just-burnt and bright. Thin starbursts in a soup. W
Consistently and heartfelt-edly and wholly amazed by the folks who appear from the wings at the most critical times. For me, this often happens when I’m in the kitchen, up a creek. But also outside of it. Thank you. And if you haven’t got
This summer is still-warm plum jam on just-baked shortbread cookies. Copper pots and bright fragrant herbs. Living in awe of a monarch chrysalis while inside it. Cycling giddy no hands dappled light. Riding the edge and coasting. Exhilaration. ☀️🌱🦋
This summer is still-warm plum jam on just-baked shortbread cookies. Copper pots and bright fragrant herbs. Living in awe of a monarch chrysalis while inside it. Cycling giddy no hands dappled light. Riding the edge and coasting. Exhilaration. 💜🦋🌱
Our next farm dinner is Saturday, August 10th! The theme is honey, from our hives and those of our neighbors. 🍯 There’s a beekeeping workshop in the morning and then dinner at night. Separate tickets. Maybe even a wardrobe change but more for
So here’s a class I’d have a hard time teaching in the city : Open Fire Cooking class on Saturday, July 20th. We’re going to translate how you use fire and heat indoors to the out of doors. First we’ll build a fire then we&rsq
Our second farm dinner is in ten days!! And if you like farm tours and very very fresh food and feel like donning a marinière though the weather looks very much in our favor, please do join. (I’d like to see you!) Link to tickets in my p
After a rather soggy week, the rain stopped, the sun emerged and we welcomed a full house to our Summer Solstice Farm Dinner. We kicked off a whole season of thoughtful, fun programming @harlemvalleyhomestead. These are our dinner guests, on a farm t
After welcome drinks on the lawn and a farm tour, but before dinner, we’re going to step into this field and face the Ten Mile River and take a moment to recognize the solstice. ☀️ 🌚 🌸
The first tart I remember making was for Molly O’Neill. I mean, there must have been others, but I came upstate one weekend about five years ago for an interview? A meeting? And next thing you know I was cooking dinner for Molly and her guests.
If you’ve got that voice, that little voice, persistent nudging voice, occasional loving lecture, brief peek, peaceful glimpse into something else. Listen in, give it space, ask questions, inquire, pry, imagine. Leaps of faith still require lea
This comb was trimmed from our hives about a month after we introduced the bees to their new homes. Check out the process. Bees were driven to the farm. We brought box of bees to the new boxes. They come with a can of sugar water. And the queen. In h
I’d like to thank our farmer for holding on to this patch of arugula gone wild so late in the season so I could indulge a need to make arugula flower purée. 👨‍🌾 I’d like to thank my mother for making me this (and all of my) g
So I live on a farm now. It’s 5:11am and light is already seeping through the crack of dawn. Here are some new views. One through my bedroom window and another through the kitchen window and one from a point on the Appalachian Trail. It’s
FREE BOOKS! DM me to arrange for pickup anytime between tonight and Tuesday at noon. There will likely be more. I’m still going through the piles. 🤸🏼‍♂️ Tag someone who might be interested!