There are a few items we choose to bring to market that we wild harvest from our property because they are delicious(most importantly) , super nutritious (like out of this world nutritious), and also (very kindly) fill seasonal growing gaps for us. We do “cultivate” these wildings, clearing the areas where they grow or maintaining [...]
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At Market this Week: Nettles!
Posted in cooking, health, local, nature, nutrition, seasonal eating, spring, tagged nettles, nutrition, seasons, spring, wild harvested on April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
2011 CSA Details!
Posted in CSA, farm, farming, mcminnville, newsletter, seasonal eating, tagged community supported agriculture, csa harvest, farming, newsletter on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With just two weeks of our 2010 CSA left, we are ready to move forward mentally to the 2011 season. Next year will mark our 5th season of farming here in Oregon, and after many growing pains, we have come to feel secure in our work here on the farm. This year our fields produced [...]
To market, to market!!!
Posted in CSA, farm, farmer's market, farming, mcminnville, newsletter, seasonal eating, Uncategorized, winter, tagged csa harvest, farmer's market, farming, newsletter, winter on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Although it happened without being planned, the babe and I spent almost all day at The Market yesterday: he snuggled in his wrap sleeping soundly and giving everyone only a top of the head view of his baby cuteness, me working our market booth with the farmer for the first time since mid-August or so. [...]
The first frost and what’s left of summer
Posted in changes, cooking, frost, newsletter, seasonal eating, turnip greens, weather, tagged autumn, newsletter, seasons, weather on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the warm weather most of these days and nights (even now, with the rain), we had our first frost in our lower field, a natural cold sink where all the cool air flows to at night. It wasn’t a hard freeze, but it was enough to kill the winter squash plants and the tomato [...]
Better late than never
Posted in challenges, farming, newsletter, seasonal eating, weather, tagged farming, newsletter, seasons, summer on September 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
These beauties were a long time coming this year; and now, mid-September, we have rain again and the feeling of fall and it is hard to imagine how long this short lived tomato season will last. Not even as long as the equally short lived summer, I suppose. The rain feels lovely, but we [...]
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