Three Sisters Garden - Recipes & News

Does anyone out there grow sulfur cosmos? This was our first year growing them. We have long lost interest in them as a cut flower, but have developed great interest in simply watching them. If you have grown them, has a giant green cosmos forest with very late bloom been your experience?  Plants are finally shooting up flower heads, taking them well over 7 and 8 feet tall... the packet said 2-3 feet.  We saw our first open flower today, on those rich green giant plants.  Even without flowers they are beautiful, and among the last thing standing in our...

OK, so this is what I have been making lately. We are really talking about a process here, more than a specific recipe.  If you have turkey, fine.  If you have beef, pork, lamb, or no meat at all, it does not matter. I am making mine in a 1 quart casserole dish, so scale up or down according to quantity. I usually see 3 solid meals from that quart dish. Ingredients: 2-3 good handfuls of coarse corn tortilla chips or oven dried corn tortillas. 1 cup of leftover, or reserved, roasted squash or pumpkin. I have been using the...

My mention in the newsletter of what I was having for dinner a few nights ago really stirred some interest.  Since we harvested a few more poblanos today from the last handful of plants in the hoop-house, here is the basic recipe.  With any recipe I may provide, please feel free to make it your own. Feeling the need to add a handful of shiitakes? Have at it.  Have some herbs in your yard or garden? Feel free to add what moves you. Whatever comes to mind. It is not necessarily wrong, just because it is not in the recipe.  If you've read...

For the entire time I have been farming, we have worked through just about every Monday holiday. This year is no exception, so Sunday was my Labor Day. As I am preparing for a houseful of new windows on Thursday, I opted to use my grill instead of my kitchen, waylaying having a mess to clean up, while allowing me to still make myself a pretty spectacular meal. I gather wood around the farm, and always have a supply of pecan shells in the cooler, for smoking. So, I lit the grill, and once things got going, I roasted a handful of...

As we are at something of an apex moment out here on the farm, and today has been hot, with more to come tomorrow. I picked up one of the smallest cantaloupes, a red onion, and a hot wax pepper.  Harvested tomatoes rest in the cool of our corn milling shed, so I stepped in there and picked up a handful of cherry tomatoes.  Walking along the edge of the garden, I snagged a branch each of lemon verbena, and chocolate mint. I then hauled everything into the kitchen, where I added an ear of already roasted and cooled sweet...