Friends, we invite you to Coastal Bend Health Foods today and tomorrow to shop at a local store that would love to have your business. To prepare for your Memorial Day weekend celebration, we offer a wide variety of freshly picked produce. We offer fresh chickens today and tomorrow. Stop by Kimmi’s store and discover the difference our heritage [...]
Archive for the ‘Pioneer Farming’ Category
End of May Harvest
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Vegetables, tagged edible squash blossoms, food, harvest, heritage farming methods on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Invention of Geometry
Posted in Pioneer Farming, tagged ancient egypt, nile river basin, property taxes, rich fertile soil on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Herodotus, in his Histories, documents the strange and remarkable events of an ancient world that is completely foreign to us. In some ways, however, he describes a world very similar to our own. A Faithful Wife Here is an example of the strange: In Book II, Herodotus tells the story of an Egyptian king who was blinded by [...]
Spring Gardening Series, Final Meeting this Saturday
Posted in Pioneer Farming on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friends, join us at Coastal Bend Health Foods this Saturday, May 5, from 11:00am to noon, for the last meeting of our Spring Gardening Series. We will recap highlights of our gardening program and address any problems you may be having in your garden. Also, we will provide you with the resources, literature, local authorities, and on-line support to enable you [...]
Spring Gardening Series: Ideas for a Chemical-Free Garden
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Vegetables on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friends, we are pleased to announce that Four String Farm will host a series of gardening discussions, “Ideas for a Chemical-Free Garden”, at Coastal Bend Health Foods this spring. Join us on the first and third Saturdays in March and April from 11:00am to noon, for a fun and interesting exploration of chemical-free gardening. The first session [...]
Ham is for Luck on New Year’s Day
Posted in Pioneer Farming, tagged ham, luck, new year's day on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone should have a taste of ham on New Year’s Day. It is an American tradition. Ham is for luck. So, why is pork the lucky delectable? Why not beef or lamb or chicken? Pork is lucky because pigs root forward. We eat pork to move forward into the New Year. Cows and sheep stand [...]
Giving Thanks
Posted in Pioneer Farming, tagged bird, broken wing on November 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The great Fall migration is passing over Rockport. Countless bird populations, ducks and geese and cranes, draw formations in the cold air as they move south in flocks along the cloudless blue roadways. Other migratory birds, shy, tiny birds, wrens and warblers, are also on a mission south. You must hunt carefully in the trees for these little birds, in shrubs, [...]
Grand Opening Celebration!
Posted in Pioneer Farming on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friends: Please join us this Saturday, November 19, between 10:00am and 2:00pm, for the grand opening celebration of Coastal Bend Health Foods. Come help us christen Kimmi Norvell’s wonderful new store! Cooking Demonstration, Free Samples, and Door Prizes To celebrate our partnership with Kimmi, this Saturday at the grand opening party we will host a cooking demonstration of [...]
The Witch is Dead
Posted in A Wee Wife, Pioneer Farming on November 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On Hallow’s Eve, I got hold of a Halloween toy, a little plastic bobble-head witch. The witch had a black hat and green face and red eyes that lit up and flashed. The red eyes were motion sensors, and any movement caused the witch to emit a long hideous laugh. When you picked it up, the laughter erupted into a chorus [...]
Finally, Wholesome Food!
Posted in Pioneer Farming on November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We finally have a health food store in our town! I am very excited to welcome Coastal Bend Health Foods to Rockport. Coastal Bend Health Foods is an independent store owned and operated by Kimmi Norvell. Kimmi offers a wide range of health foods, beauty supplies, vitamins, and supplements—many items that you cannot find at the grocery [...]
A Beethoven Chicken
Posted in Pastured Poultry, Pioneer Farming on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I celebrate my chickens with music. I do not say butcher. I celebrate with the best music ever composed. There is Mozart, Dmitri Shostakovich and Johannes Brahms. There is Vivaldi, Franz Liszt, Prokofiev, Shubert, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and more, on and on, all the masters. Blood is the truth of this work. It is the wholesome sacrifice. The [...]
