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At Market this Week: Nettles!

Posted in cooking, health, local, nature, nutrition, seasonal eating, spring, tagged , , , , on April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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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2011 CSA Details!

Posted in CSA, farm, farming, mcminnville, newsletter, seasonal eating, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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To market, to market!!!

Posted in CSA, farm, farmer's market, farming, mcminnville, newsletter, seasonal eating, Uncategorized, winter, tagged , , , , 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.  [...]

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The first frost and what’s left of summer

Posted in changes, cooking, frost, newsletter, seasonal eating, turnip greens, weather, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Better late than never

Posted in challenges, farming, newsletter, seasonal eating, weather, tagged , , , 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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