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What better way to spend the Spring Equinox?

Posted on March 11, 2016

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Hot Nuts & Cider was supposed to be this weekend.

Hot Nuts & Cider was supposed to be this weekend.

It's one of our favorite times of the year, a celebration of all the hard work of the previous months, gathering together with all of you as we prepare to hunker down for winter. This would have been our 7th year roasting nuts and cooking cider over the fires with you, and we're dearly missing seeing your faces.

To take the sting out of this disappointment and to spread a little cheer this holiday season, we thought we'd share some of our favorite tips and hints over the next couple weeks so you can make your own Hot Nuts & Cider magic - at home! First up: the basic ingredients. The ingredients you need for Hot Nuts & Cider at Home are: nuts, nutcrackers, cider, fire, and music.

NUTS: Foraged pecans are our favorite nuts. You can still find some around the Raleigh, NC and Piedmont region, although the end of the season is close. We’ll talk all about different nuts in a future post.

NUTCRACKER: Different nuts require different levels of pressure to crack, but pecans, with their brittle shells, can be opened with the classic shellfish cracker (seen in the 4th picture).

CIDER: Apple cider is the classic Hot Nuts & Cider choice, as seen heating over the fire in pic 5, but other types of ciders like pear can be tasty alternatives! Spike your cider for an additional treat (21+ only)!

FIRE: Good for the body, good for the soul! The crackle of a warm fire has given comfort for over a million years, why stop now? Wonderful whether you choose to use it for cooking, heat, or just ambience.

MUSIC: The @chatham_rabbits played our very first Hot Nuts & Cider, and they’ve been one of our faves ever since! Whether live music or a playlist, you need a soundtrack to enhance your experience.

Finally, we’ve always made Hot Nuts & Cider’s home at @raleighcityfarm . We’re missing them as well this year, and if you are too, we encourage you to follow them and see how they’re still staying active & welcoming folks in socially-distanced ways! Whatever location you choose, we hope these upcoming posts help you have the best Hot Nuts & Cider at Home possible!

Time to start letting go of the summer garden... A

Time to start letting go of the summer garden... As always, it’s had its ups and downs this season, but this bowl sitting on my counter is a good reminder that it’s all been worth it. 😍
When the weather starts to cool, I always have a hard time letting go of my summer plants, pulling them out to get ready for fall... But slowly, slowly I am clearing one bed at a time.
This will mean bowls of unripe summer veg sitting around the pantry and kitchen to ripen off the vine... trays of beans left to dry... and a canning pot going full tilt to finish putting up the last of the harvest.
For the next few months, it’ll be all greens and root veggies and whatever I managed to put on the pantry shelf this summer. 😋

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