Progress is being made out here. We’re working to plant the warm weather crops this week: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, more summer squash and cucumbers. We’ve planted broccoli, cabbages, sweet corn, sunflowers, lettuce mix, bok choi, and kohlrabi. We’ve sown carrots, beets, soybeans, and snap beans. Sowing winter squash is also […]
News From the Farm
We hope everyone has enjoyed last week’s box and are ready for this one! We got a phone call from another farmer on Tuesday morning asking for advice. Unfortunately we couldn’t offer much help. Every season brings new challenges. Some are easier to deal with than others. This spring has […]
News from the Farm – May 18, 2013
Here we go again! The box this week looks pretty good to us. We hope you all enjoy it. We had a little bit of a hard time finding our crew this year, but in the end we have a great crew. You’ll see them at market on a rotating […]
News from the Farm – May 11, 2013
October! Here we are in the home stretch. All the strawberries and over-winter flowers were planted last week and watered in. Tuesday’s big rain made sure everything got plenty of water! The cover crops are up and growing. We spent much on Monday of this week digging sweet potatoes. We […]
News from the Farm – October 5, 2012
It’s now officially fall, and the weather outside has been beautiful, cool clear mornings giving way to warm, blue skies in the afternoon. What an amazing time be be working outside! We’re getting closer to the time when the work load is less intense, there’s always more to do than […]
News From The Farm – September 29, 2012
That was some rain. We slogged it out Tuesday morning harvesting in the continuous downpour. The rain was actually great and came just in time, though a bit heavy. The engine to our irrigation system died, and the replacement engine had not been put back into the system. So all […]
News From The Farm – September 22, 2012
Well we’re back to dry weather and cool! How nice is that?! Unfortunately I’m having trouble with the irrigation pump. I hope to get to running Wednesday morning, hoping! We’re still trying to clean everything up in the fields. We like to have our winter cover crops sown on or […]
News from the Farm – September 15, 2012
A big thanks to all those that came out on Monday. We had a big crew out here weeding away. They helped us get caught up for the most part, though there are a lot more weeds to deal with out there. In last week’s newsletter we were irrigating like […]
News from the Farm – September 8, 2012
The transition to fall seems like it has come early this year, cool nights and mornings, the leaves on the black walnuts are yellowing and the dogwoods are turning red. White globe turnips are gracing your boxes this week and greens are back on the market tables and will be […]
News from the Farm – September 1, 2012
The weather sure has been nice for the past few days. I’ve even seen a winter’s hat on a couple of our interns as we start the day. What a crazy year weather wise. We had such an early spring, starting in February, June and July were swelteringly hot, and […]
News from the Farm – August 25, 2012
(six servings) Ingredients: 6 cobs of sweet corn 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 onion, finely diced 3 garlic cloves, crushed 1 celery stalk, diced 1 carrot, diced 2 large potatoes, peeled and diced 4 cups vegetable stock 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley Directions: 1. Cook the corn cobs in a […]
Potato and Sweet Corn Chowder
The farmers are back in town. We had a fantastic trip to California to visit Vanessa’s brother & his family. we had great weather, great food, saw a few friends, toured the farm we both started on in Santa Cruz, and checked out a few farmer’s markets (Vanessa is a […]