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Full Sun Farm honey — From Frank Stitt’s Southern Table. A great cookbook, if you can find it. Makes 1 cup. 2 tsp sherry vinegar 1 ½ tsp fresh lemon juice 1 ½ tsp Dijon mustard 1 tbs honey ½ tsp chopped parsley 2 chives, finely sliced Kosher salt and ground pepper to taste ¾ […]

SHERRY-HONEY VINAIGRETTE

vacation — We’re back from a really great trip to Utah to help celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We spent 5 days on the Green river floating through Desolation Canyon. What a trip! But we are back to farming reality and it’s August out there, which means it’s a jungle […]

News From The Farm – August 13, 2016

Canteloupe Green Oak Lettuce Cucumbers Onions 2# Garlic Baby Patty Pan Summer Squash Pint of cherry tomatoes! Heirloom tomato Red Tomatoes Shisito Peppers Carrots Sweet Corn

What’s In Your Box – August 13, 2016

Hello from the Full Sun interns! We’ve been working hard this week harvesting and keeping things under wraps while Alex and Vanessa are away. They left the farm looking great, so we’ve been trying to keep it that way. Battling weeds was our focus of the week, but we were […]

News From The Farm – August 6, 2016

Green Oak Leaf Lettuce Zephyr Squash Italian Eggplant Cucumbers Potatoes Rainbow Swiss Chard Cherry Tomatoes Red Tomatoes Heirloom Tomato Sweet Corn

What’s In Your Box – August 6, 2016

La Cuisine Provencale by Louis Ginies – serves 6 or 8. Ratatouille Nicoise has become internationally famous but, in the rest of Provence, the Bohemienne – using equal amounts of eggplants and tomatoes is preferred. 3 large eggplants, enough to make 3 pounds, peeled and cut into small pieces 9 […]

BOHEMIENNE EGGPLANT AND TOMATO GRATIN

Bon Appetit July 1992 – serves 6 There’s lots of these ingredients around right now. We made this salad recently for a potluck and got nice comments. It is low-fat and no-cholesterol, if that matters to you. 2 pounds of potatoes – baby ones or just cut them into small […]

POTATO, CUCUMBER AND DILL SALAD

planting on full sun farm — Alex and Vanessa headed out for their family vacation yesterday afternoon, so it’s just us four interns on the farm for the next week. The bosses left the farm looking great, so we’re just gearing up for a week of harvesting, battling weeds, and doing some planting and sowing. Here’s […]

News from the Farm – July 29, 2016

Green Butter Lettuce Red Butter Lettuce FairyTale Eggplant Watermelon Cucumbers Cherry Tomatoes Red Tomatoes Heirloom Tomato Basil Carrots

What’s in Your Box – July 29, 2016

Alex at Full Sun Farm — Another hot one out here. We’re getting used to it by now. We’ve had a good run of rain, though it looks like it has ended and we’ll starting irrigating tomorrow. We continue to plant and sow more and more vegetables and flowers. There is an end in sight, […]

News from the Farm – July 20, 2016

Green Oak Lettuce Romaine Lettuce Cucumbers Potatoes 2# Summer Squash 2 Pints of cherry tomatoes! Heirloom tomatoes Shisito Peppers Jalapeno Pepper Fairy Tale Eggplant Watermelon!

What’s In Your Box – July 20, 2016

This is from Italian chef Lorenza de Medici who ran a cooking school in the Chianti region of Italy. Gourmet 1987. Serves 6 2 Tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped 4 tbsp of olive oil 2 pounds cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded, and cut into 1/2 –inch dice ½ cup packed […]