News, features and photos from Lincoln, Mass.
The 2013 Lincoln Winter Carnival kicks off Friday, February 1 with community bingo and a concert by the U.S. Air Force band of LIberty Jazz Ensemble. Other events that weekend include: Girl Scout breakfast Groundhog Day at Drumlin Farm Snowshoe tours at deCordova Vermont PuppeTree performs “Caps for Sale” Community skating Lincoln Family Association Energy…
Will we have six more weeks of winter or an early spring? Join us as Ms. G, Drumlin Farm’s resident groundhog, gives her forecast for the rest of the winter at Drumlin Farm’s Groundhog Day celebration on Saturday, February 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Activities include: Get the up-to-the-minute woodchuck weather forecast from Ms. G…
(This article originally appeared in the Lincoln Journal on August 2, 2012.)
Leslie Miller of Stow fishes a pickle out of the jar)
By Alice Waugh
Summer at Drumlin Farm means loads of fresh vegetables and herbs—and some of them got pickled on a Friday night.
About 20 visitors sampled all sorts of veggies that had been pickled over the past week or so by Drumlin farm and food educator Allison Chuang, who led “Fermentation Friday: A Pickled Pageant” on July 27. Pickling isn’t just for cucumbers, she explained, as she handed out tasty samples of pickled radishes, carrots, peppers, green beans and other foods.
Before the advent of refrigeration, pickling (submerging food in salt water and allowing it to ferment) was just one of several food preservation methods people used around the world for centuries. For example, many cultures pickle cabbage to make foods like sauerkraut or kimchi. Fermentation is also used to make thing including beer, bread and yogurt.
(This article was originally published in the Lincoln Journal on June 21, 2012.) By Alice Waugh The Codman Community Farms entrance area was a colorful and congenial place to be on the night of June 16, as dozens of families pitched tents, ate dinner and enjoyed some campfire camaraderie during the annual Codman Campout. For…
(This article was originally published in the Lincoln Journal on June 14, 2012.)
By Alice Waugh
Lots of people drink milk every day, but most of them don’t see how it gets from cow to cup. Drumlin Farm staff rectified that situation for hundreds of visitors on Dairy Day last Saturday, which was both educational and udderly delicious.
The third annual Dairy Day in June (National Dairy Month) is one of Drumlin Farm’s periodic “theme days,” which include Woolapalooza earlier this spring. Visitors could watch a cow being milked, taste some freshly made yogurt cheese, and even make butter in a bottle. “We wanted to give people a chance to learn more about where milk comes from and the different ways you can use it to make other dairy products,” said visitor education coordinator Renata Pomponi.