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Kelly McCune and her kitchen, her well-used tools, the family, friends, and dogs that populate the small space, often all at once, and all the meals she's cooked or written about over the years. Read more about Kelly.

Agritourism is a booming business in places like Italy -- small farms can host one or two couples, feed them delicious food and solicit their help collecting eggs, and charge for it! Happy to see this business model taking hold here in the U.S., since it celebrates good food and out-of-the-way locales. Check out Farmer's Turn to Agritourism to Stay in Business

(Photo Sacramento Bee)

FANTASTIC documentary called "Pressure Cooker" -- inspiring story about an inner city high school class of Philadelphia kids competing for scholarship awards in the culinary arts. I really recommend this movie -- click the pic for the trailer.

I'm going to read The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball to finally settle the question I have about farming -- should I or shouldn't I? Read or listen also to this report about small scale farming in California -- Growing Pains: New Farmers Break the Mold-- the good and the bad (and a little bit of the ugly...)