Harper Farms

My whole life i have tried to make melt on your mouth bread, only to create dense loaves that were really only good for breadcrumbs.

Then i took one last run at a sourdough starter. This time i starter with sir galahad bread flour from king arthur flour. Ive even made pasta from this starter.

If you or someone you know has issues with gluten but have not been diagnosed with Celiac disease, you really need to check out sourdough. There's a molecule called Gliadin that is broken down in the sourdough process, and is responsible for many people having issues with bread. My wife has this condition and she can eat this bread with no inflammation response.

One of our friends brought us some Pawpaws!! We've been wanting to play with some of these for years, but we're always too busy to try and forage. The Pawpaw tree is native to our area, sometimes referred to as "the poor man's banana". What do you make out of them?

Fermenting the seeds, then i'll freeze them and give them out in the spring. I'm sure I will think all winter about where to plant a couple. Nicole Evanshaw

This week we harvested pears off of our trees. He's been waiting several years for these trees to grow, seems like forever, but we finally got a good harvest.

We made some leathers with them as well as some chutney. What do you do with your pears?