Peter Barrett

Dry, smoke, ferment, freeze… lots of things.

Hot peppers of all shapes and colors spread out on a wooden counter seen from above

Here’s the full bounty. Peppers like hot and dry, so the drought was a blessing on this front 🌱🌶️

A wooden counter covered in many types of hot red and green chiles

Processing the hot pepper harvest 🌱

Mushroom Pho A vegan alternative that rocks pretty hard

Behold, my recipe for a full-flavored fungal pho. 🌱🍽️🍜🍄

As someone noted above, “aubergine” comes from the Arabic “al-badhinjian,” meaning, wait for it, “eggplant.”

Salsa verde!

I freeze a lot!

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

A large metal bowl filled with freshly harvested bell peppers outside on a gravel path in the sun

I’m some countries, this is considered a lot of peppers. 🌱

We Americans contain multitudes, and the MAGAts are a minority. Thanks for playing, though.

These egg-shaped plants are really pretty. I wonder what they’re called? 🌱

Six small ceramic cups glazed a blue-green with black bottoms

New cups fresh out of the kiln. #ceramics

You can find them online. I think Baker Creek has them.

Most things do pretty well, though each year I have issues with insects. This year was cabbage moths. I add compost and minerals every spring and rotate crop families to promote soil health. Have you tried growing sesame? That’s a fun one.

Hard to choose the “best.” For me the variety is a big part of it

A metal bowl full of green beans on a concrete patio seen from above with angled sunlight and a long shadow

Late green bean harvest, week two: another 3+ pounds (1500g)🌱

A raised bed garden with gravel paths on a perfectly clear fall day

The garden today 🌱

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

How Women Are Breathing New Life Into Georgia’s 8,000-Year Wine Tradition Tethered to its ancestral past, Georgian wine is now a global force with a forward-thinking vision led by women winemakers.

Tethered to its ancestral past, Georgian wine is now a global force with a forward-thinking vision led by women winemakers.

Yes, they’ll keep producing until it freezes.

Fresh beans are so much better than dried!

Four 8-foot rows

A metal bowl full of green beans seen from above on a gravel path

Today’s green bean harvest (second planting) 🌱

A hand full of ripe red soicebush berries seen with a trail and woods in the background

Picking spicebush berries 🌱

A double-decker Reuben sandwich with pastrami, kraut, and melted cheese oozing out

Behold, my almost entirely from-scratch Reuben (I didn’t make the cheese) 🍽️

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site).

But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

Pastrami It's as good as it looks, and remarkably easy

Have you ever made your own pastrami? Here's how. 🍽️

YouTube video by NPR Music GWAR: Tiny Desk Concert

Now seems like a fun time to remind everyone that GWAR did an NPR Tiny Desk concert

A sourdough batard seen from above on a white tabletop

Loaf du jour 🥖 #sourdough

It definitely beats eating them raw!