Spruce Run & Stony Ridge Farm

The perfect gift for anyone who wants to get smart, get healthy, or eat better in 2026! VEGGIE SMARTS, a little book about a little farm and everything I learned along the way. A bit sassy and irreverent, but guaranteed to add years to your life. (Or your money back.)
(Yes, mizuna, celeriac, and pigweed.) VEGETABLE NERDS, UNITE! Find it at Barnes&Noble.Com or Amazon.

Cured! I am ready for winter! At least as far as the onions are concerned. A bushel will be plenty for my kitchen.

With giant, juicy, heirloom Brandywine tomatoes like this, you just want to stay home and eat sandwiches.

KETCHUP. Enough to last a whole year. Freshly picked San Marzano tomatoes, freshly pulled onions, and a few ingredients from the pantry, including brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and pepper. How does homemade ketchup compare to Hunts and Heinz? 1- The flavor is richer and more interesting. 2- The texture is less like an industrial lubricant and more like the texture that ketchup should be. 3- It’s not made from tomato concentrate, there’s no corn syrup, there’s no high fructose corn syrup, and there are no other strange industrial ingredients. Check out my book VEGGIE SMARTS for my rules of thumb for eating french fries.

Mother Nature makes it obvious that Swiss Chard is super food. Read about this veggie and dozens of others in Veggie Smarts, a little book about a little farm. Available at barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.

The Celosia and Amaranth cut flower garden is never complete without Love-Lies-Bleeding.

6 feet tall and some of my very favorite flowers.

Pomodoro Sauce Canning Day!!!

Sungold.

The radicchio is heading up.

Supersweet 100 is in full vibrancy. Yes, they are super sweet! And yes, they produce more than 100 cherry tomatoes per plant!
I’m eating them as fast as I can.