Category: Harvest - Page 15

Brussels sprouts for Christmas?

1 Dec 200825 Dec 2007 by Mike (tfb)

Got the idea this morning to get something REALLY FRESH onto the Christmas dinner menu. A fat local turkey, plus squash, potatoes, carrots, beets and onions from storage (in addition to a ham and industrial veggies from the supermarket) didn’t … Read the rest

Heat!

26 Apr 20232 Dec 2007 by Mike (tfb)

Finally finished a bit of hot pepper harvest, now there’s a convenient pile of dried heat! A few weeks ago, wondering whether to cover for frost, I decided to also pull up some hot pepper plants, roots and all, instead. … Read the rest

Broccoli vs cauliflower

9 Nov 20076 Nov 2007 by Mike (tfb)

One broccoli (Early Dividend), one cauliflower (Early Dawn), but what’s that Violet Queen in the middle? The EDs are standbys, the VQ is new. It looks like broccoli, cooks like broccoli, tastes like broccoli, but it’s in the seed catalog … Read the rest

Making mulch, part 4

10 Nov 20231 Nov 2007 by Mike (tfb)

Fat bags of kinda fluffy grass-and-alfalfa mulch are the satisfying end of this little experiment (well, the real end comes next spring when we see how it does at sheltering the garlic for the winter). For this second batch, the … Read the rest

Putting food by

15 Dec 200728 Oct 2007 by Mike (tfb)

With the farmers’ market over, time to turn to fall-and-winter things. This year, I’m for the first time organizing a proper veggie selection for storage (it’s about time I started…training for that future CSA root cellar!). Instead of the usual … Read the rest

Choose your fork wisely

12 May 202226 Oct 2007 by Mike (tfb)

Today’s harvest was the last scheduled one of the season—tomorrow is the final farmers’ market day. Heading out alone felt a little strange, after all the help this summer, but certainly familiar. It’s a completely different…mindset when it’s all entirely … Read the rest

Pumpkins on the stand

25 Oct 200721 Oct 2007 by Mike (tfb)

This year’s pumpkins eventually made it to the newly roofed farm stand. It makes a nice autumn scene, especially on a fine, balmy fall day like today. I suppose this coming together of pumpkin and stand is a fitting progression … Read the rest