Everywhere I look, green. At every meal of the day, collard greens and mustard greens and kale greens, alongside dark green kale rapinis and light green turnip rapini. There are some purples working there way in as we harvest wild violets for fun and the sprouting broccoli from the field, and the purple cape cauliflowers [...]
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Seeing green (and red)
Posted in children, duality, family, farming, food saftey, home, politics, seasonal eating, spring, weather, tagged family, farming, food politics, history, home, homeschooling, mother, potato famine, seasons, spring, unschooling on March 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Each time
Posted in children, cycles, family, farming, home, local food, seasonal eating, weather, tagged family, farming, mother, nature, rhythym, seasons on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Let me tell you, it is just as fun the fourth time around as the first, second, and third. Each time, it has been equally exciting and amazing. Those first milky smiles and baby coos, the learning to crawl and then those first stumble-y steps…breathtaking. Right now, we are discovering books. We read from 2-3 [...]
Saturday morning
Posted in challenges, community, CSA, farm, farmer's market, farming, greenhouse, local food, mcminnville, pests, seasonal eating, winter, tagged community supported agriculture, farming, seasons, winter on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday mornings, for the last year and a half, have been off to market days for us. Our little town has been blessed with the opportunity to build a thriving year round farmer’s and artisan’s market, and having somewhere to bring winter produce to sell during the off months of our CSA program is really [...]
This Week at Market: The Flavors of Spring
Posted in farm, seasonal eating, mcminnville, community, local food, spring, swiss chard, rapini, salad mix, farmer's market, local, weather, tagged seasons, spring, farmer's market on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Spring it still is, even though today marks the start of our “summer” farmer’s market, the McMinnville Farmer’s Market. Farmer’s growing in hoop houses or on black plastic can nudge the season ahead a bit, but with the long lasting springs we have been having last year and this, even our friends who use these [...]
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