Sharon Astyk's Blog - The Chatelaine's Keys

Welcome to The Chatelaine’s Keys. This blog has several simultaneous and intertwined projects. The first is that it functions as my family’s farm blog, documenting our work here in creating a sustainable agriculture and a family farm with a future.

The second is that this blog is a place for me to bring together my work on agriculture, food systems, food storage and preservation and my ongoing exploration of our future with a community of readers engaged with the same problems and ideas. This is a place for us to share thoughts from the pragmatic (How do I keep carrots over the winter? Anyone have a good recipe for swiss cheese? Is it safe to can tomatoes in a water bath?) to the slightly more abstract (How will our shared ecological crisis reshape our sense of self? What will women’s roles in the future be? Where are we going and how do we get there?)