Pickings were slim this week at our market booth and a few others as the cool weather and gray days were again here more than gone. We could hardly believe that there was so little growth from last week’s harvest to this week’s. This happens in early spring, but the pace of growth usually continues [...]
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At market and in the farm kitchen this week
Posted in Chard, chickens, cooking, CSA, cycles, farmer's market, farming, flowers, home, local food, newsletter, salad mix, seasonal eating, spring, summer, turnip greens, tagged farming, newsletter, seasons, spring, summer on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Worth the wait
Posted in broccoli, challenges, children, CSA, cycles, farm, farmer's market, farming, flowers, gardening, newsletter, pests, spring, summer, tagged csa harvest, farming, mother, newsletter, planting, rhythym, seasons, spring, summer on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is actually a photo from last week’s CSA harvest, but this week’s harvest is much the same, with some blushed leaf lettuce, lacinato kale, and the sweetest, most beautiful green onions as well. The weather this last week, too, has been much the same–cloudy, cool, and wet. But there was last Saturday, a bright, [...]
Abundunce
Posted in challenges, CSA, cycles, farming, flowers, nature, newsletter, potluck, seasonal eating, summer, winter, tagged csa harvest, food preservation, newsletter, seasons, summer on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The exciting news this week is ripe tomatoes! We know you have all been waiting and waiting, and this is really just a small bit of the very first, still nothing to write home about; nevertheless, as some of you saw at this weekend’s open farm, the tomato planting is massive this year, so there [...]
August Rush
Posted in challenges, changes, CSA, cycles, farm, farming, flowers, gardening, nature, newsletter, seasonal eating, summer, Uncategorized, weeds, winter, tagged farming, newsletter, planting, rhythym, seasons, summer on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
August is here, and all of a sudden the steady pace we have held to since spring’s crazy planting rush has picked up tempo again. We are in the thick of fall’s planting, which is a rush just like in spring, but feels even more like a race since we aren’t working our way towards [...]
Summer love
Posted in challenges, cooking, CSA, cycles, family, farm, farming, flowers, gardening, home, local food, nature, newsletter, seasonal eating, summer, tagged farming, newsletter, rhythym, seasons, summer on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am sure that at this moment, we all have one thing taking up residence in our minds, filling in all the spaces between our many other thoughts, unavoidably resurfacing in the front again and again. And what could so ubiquitously bring us together in such grand collective consciousness besides the weather: it is hot! [...]
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