Summer Meadow's Farm

NOTE: I am still trying to figure out the technical difficulties that people on PCs are having viewing the site. I think it has something to do with the fact that I wanted to use pictures 400 pixels wide—heck, Heidi Swanson's pictures are 545 pixels wide. For now, the solution I proposed to one reader is to copy and paste the text (select all, copy) into a blank e-mail. Sorry for the work-around, and hope it is temporary.) [Help, Mister Wizard!]

I visited a sweet little farm with over seventy goats last week. Pictured here is the woman who runs it, Lynn Selness. We met at Rebecca King's "sheep warming" a couple of weeks ago. (I had the pleasure of bringing my own personal hero, Guillermo Payet, who founded Local Harvest. You haven't heard of Local Harvest? Honey, get thee there, plug in a zip code, and find yourself a farm, farmers market, CSA, restaurant, and more—all designed to help you eat well locally.)

I want to write more about Lynn, and will do so very soon, but meanwhile thought you would all like to see the baby goats. The one she's petting here (is it Angel or Holly? I think Holly) is so tame, and so sweet.

There were also a pair of twins that were only two weeks old. The female is the one lying down. Her brother is taking a break from his hijinks.

 

Lynn, who's been raising goats for thirty years, provides shares of goat milk to the Live Earth CSA here in Santa Cruz county. She is the mother of seven children, and is a grandmother. I can only assume that drinking goat's milk keeps you young, because she is very young and healthy-looking.

There is more I want to add here, but cannot do so this morning: the new job beckons.

I'll leave you with one last peek at a velvety pair of ears we got to pet.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY (cribbed from DonRockwell.com) from Terry Thiese on "cooking like a girl":

By the way, my definition of "girl-food" is it's not only food you love, it's food that loves you back. It doesn't seek to "impress" though it often does. It wraps you in a nexus of appreciation for the honesty and beauty of ingredients. It's the difference between "look at ME!!" and "Look at THESE!" The first is I-thou, I-the-diner looks at you-the-chef (and is impressed); the second is companionable and collaborative: I-the-diner and she-the-chef look TOGETHER at the beauty she has found and seeks to share. It also lays more emphasis on deliciousness than on dazzling. It's got juicier soul.

Thanks for visiting.

Comments

[Zoe]

Looks fine to me on a Toshiba laptop in both Firefox and IE.

In fact, looks excellent.

[Trig]

I can see your pictures perfectly on my PC, 400 pixels wide. Whatever width the originals are, just put the html code: width="100%" as the last part of the picture descriptor (e.g. <img style="[style]" src="[photo url]" width="100%" />)

and they should automatically resize to fill the width of the column they are in.

I'm enjoying your posts - farming life is a bit of a mystery to an urban lad like me.

[Rebecca]

Wonderful pictures. "Cooking like a girl" is great!

I'm also working with MoovetoAmerican.org, a group asking Americans to
"moove to American" and support 100% US beef. Thanks for the great posts.

Thanks,

Rebecca
www.MoovetoAmerican.org
Join the Moovement! Support American Beef.
Mark Your Calendar for June 28th Moovement

[threecollie]

It looks good to me on a compaq pc as well. In fact I love your photos!