123. Seasonal Eating: Spring Edition | Erin Worrall of The Cedar Chest Farm

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

With the first official day of spring right around the corner, I am getting so excited to welcome spring into my kitchen. There is nothing like cutting fresh herbs from my garden, gathering eggs from my hens, collecting milk from my cow. In today’s episode, Erin and I discuss the many ways that seasonal eating can be accessible to all of us. Whether or not you have a garden or farm animals of your own, you can find ways to eat seasonally and source your food locally. With all of our modern conveniences, we don’t have to eat seasonally, but Erin and I make a case for why you might want to consider eating this way. There is so much beauty to be found in living in rhythm with the seasons.

In this episode, we cover:

Starting a spring garden
Why it matters to eat seasonally
What changes we make in our kitchens in the spring
Farm animals’ production in spring
How to approach meal planning when eating seasonally
Incorporating bread baking into your daily routine
Sourdough troubleshooting
Living a homesteading lifestyle even if you don’t live on a homestead
Where to start sourcing local, seasonal food
Preserving and storing seasonal food

GUEST BIOGRAPHY

Erin is the head farmer and resident mom to all manner of living things at The Cedar Chest Farm! Together with her family, she tends their farmstead in Southwest Virginia, aiming to educate and empower homegrown-minded folks in their journey towards self-sustenance. Whether you’re living in town and supporting local growers, or seeking to raise your own food and resources more rurally, Erin is excited to partner with you in treasuring old ways, delighting in good food, and stewarding the good world around us.

RESOURCES

Dishing Up the Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Local Dirt by Andrea Bemis

Andrea Bemis’s Local Thirty Documentary

Feeding a Family by Sarah Waldman

Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest by Lauren McDuffie

Harvie.farm

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today, I'm going to be chatting with Erin from the Cedar Chest Farm.
0:08.0	We are so excited to talk about gardening, seasonal eating, how our cooking and our kitchens all change over spring time comes.
0:17.2	I don't know about you, but I'm really excited about the changing seasons. The days are already getting longer.
0:21.8	We're already starting to experience some warm days here and there.
0:25.5	And so just the shift that's going to take with seasonal cooking is exciting to me.
0:30.5	Also, we really talk about embracing the changes in food as part of the seasonal change.
0:38.5	And so being able to expand your excitement for new seasons from just the colors and, you know, how it feels and looks outside to the tastes and bringing that into your kitchen.
0:50.5	So this was a really great conversation. I'm excited for you to listen to it.
0:55.5	My name is Lisa, mother of seven and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:09.5	I'm so excited to have you on. Thanks so much for joining me. I found you on the homestead mamas account. I found a lot of great guests from there.
1:24.5	So that's a really wonderful community. I love homestead mamas. Yeah, I'm happy you found me there.
1:29.5	Yeah, I know. I've met so many great women through there.
1:33.5	So tell us a little bit about you and your farm and your family and your sourdough workshops that you have.
1:40.5	Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here with you. My name is Erin Whirl. My farm is the cedar chest farm and I'm in Blacksburg, Virginia, which is like Southwest in the Appalachian Mountains.
1:52.5	And so we've been on our homestead for five years this summer.
1:57.5	My husband and I have four kids. They are almost 10, 7, and two, three year olds.
2:03.5	Oh, why did you have twins? They're actually not twins. They're 10 weeks apart.
2:09.5	We are a licensed foster family also and our son was adopted foster care. Yeah, so I mean functionally they're totally twins.
2:18.5	They think they're twins the world around the things they're twins. My energy level thinks they're twins.
2:22.5	So we moved here, like I said five years ago and honestly it was just because I wanted a couple of chickens and maybe like a modest garden.
2:32.5	And I think most folks in the homesteading world will tell you that once you start it becomes a rabbit hole spiral into all consuming lifestyle.
2:43.5	Yeah, we got here. And so over the last few years we've added pastured pigs and way more chickens also meat chickens.
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