Changing it up

June 28, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

Several things have made this week feel like a transition from spring into summer. With the return, at last, of more consistently sunny weather, the cherry tomatoes in the hoop house, which have been sitting green on the plants for weeks, have finally started ripening. We got our first bumper harvest of cucumbers and zucchini, with Mike single-handedly harvesting 100 pounds of cucumbers on Tuesday, along with our first harvests of string beans. As summer crops like these begin to move in, the spring crops that dominated the farm and the market table for so long are starting to wane. This week, we mowed down two beds of kale and...

Garlic scapes & summer crops!

June 22, 2018 In the Kitchen, Market newsletters, Other recipes, Weekly Updates

It wouldn’t be another week without another crazy rain storm. On Wednesday, we had one of the most intense thunderstorms I’ve ever experienced. Fortunately, the period of heavy rain was relatively short and it was more the wind that was damaging. We had a few rows of peas get blown entirely over, although it wasn’t too hard to right them, and basically everything on the farm looked pretty windblown this morning. On a more exciting note, the summer harvest is getting bigger and bigger. On Thursday, we brought in a huge harvest of cucumber and zucchini and the first tomatoes in the hoop house are coloring up, although we’re still...

New crops, new market!

June 15, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

It’s an exciting week on the farm! To start with, as I sit outside writing this on Tuesday afternoon, the sky is blue and it’s not raining, which at this point is about all we can ask for! Additionally, we’re starting to see a true shift in the harvest from exclusively spring greens to more early summer items and even some true high-summer crops. This week will be the first we have a heavy snap pea harvest. While harvesting snap peas can feel like an endless tasks, the sweet crunch of the peas is a pretty good reward! The cucumber and zucchini plants in the hoop house are really taking...

Pushing on

June 8, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

It looks like we are going to get somewhat of a break from the wet weather this week and are just keeping our fingers crossed that the current mostly-sunny forecast stays that way! Over the weekend, we had two more torrential rains, dropping another several inches of rain on the farm. We’ve more or less been in an ongoing flash flood watch in our county for the last several weeks, as the ground is so completely saturated and the rains so unbelievably heavy that the water just runs right off the surface. Creeks around us have been running over their banks on and off for weeks, roads are regularly flooded,...

Pickled radishes & more rain

June 1, 2018 Canning, In the Kitchen, Market newsletters, Other recipes, Weekly Updates

The rain keeps on falling and at this point I’m mainly just amazed each week that we have anything to harvest. Apart from the in-the-moment damage from heavy rain and flooding, we’re starting to see the more delayed effects, with the onset of rotting in some crops and of diseases like powdery mildew that thrive in hot, humid conditions like these. At times like this, it’s nice to be able to fall back on simple comforts like eating good food. This past week, I’ve made a few tasty recipes, including a quite authentic-tasting pad thai that also called for these amazing pickled radishes as a garnish. While the pad thai...

Two Feet in the Dirt

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