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hay at Full Sun Farm
It’s JUNE! We had a huge Thursday last week. I mentioned that all the farmers in our valley were baling hay last week. Our field was cut and baled into square bales as well. So we had to get all those bales (about 200) out of the field and into […]

News from the Farm – June 4, 2016


Cook’s The Best Recipe ON LENTILS – Regular lentils have a distinct taste. Green are pretty bland. Red ones are on the sweet side. Masoor lentils have the best taste. These are a whole red lentil. 1 cup lentils, masoor if possible, picked over and rinsed 1 teaspoon of salt […]

Indian Spiced Lentils with Kale



from The Essential Kitchen 2 pounds of this feed 6 to 8 This can be all yellow or zucchini. The combination, when you’ve got them, is nice looking. 8 small yellow or zucchini squash or half and half, about 2 pounds Juice of 2 lemons or limes 2 shallots, finely […]

Summer Squash Salad



Greenhouse tomatoes at Full Sun Farm
What a week of planting we’ve had. There’s still a few more things to go in the ground, but we got to the bulk of it over the last week. We planted three kinds of eggplant, five different peppers, many kinds of summer squash and cucumbers, basil, and sowed a […]

News from the Farm – May 28, 2016



from the Dean and DeLuca Cookbook Puglia is an Italian province where a meal can start with as many as a dozen vegetable dishes. Serves 6 to 8 2 pounds of beets 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon red-wine vinegar 1 teaspoon lemon juice ¼ cup virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons […]

Pugliese Beet Salad with Mint


from The Joy of Cooking – serves 6 This is simple, fast and good highlighting the flavor of fresh spinach. Works for CHARD too! 2 pounds of spinach – washed well with stems removed 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 cloves of garlic, minced Heat a heavy skillet. […]

Panned or Sicilian Spinach


from The Texas Cookbook by Mary Faulk Koock. She owned the Green Pastures restaurant in Austin. ½ cup virgin olive oil ½ cup vegetable oil ¼ cup red wine vinegar 1 Tablespoon lemon juice 2 cloves garlic 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon dry mustard ½ teaspoon tarragon 1 tablespoon horseradish […]

Dubbins Salad Dressing




Planting eggplant at Full Sun Farm
Week 2! We hope you all enjoyed all the veggies from last week because here comes another full box. As you sill see, lots of greens this time of year, but some root crops have made an appearance in beets and kohlrabi (the weird purple things). It’s been a wild […]

News from the Farm – May 21, 2016