If you love beet greens, you can practically taste this photo! Fresh-picked, sauteed just to wilting in olive oil and butter, with a smashed and chopped clove or two of garlic, salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heaped on a plate. Topped with a couple of poached farm eggs. … [Read more...] about Beet greens!
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Farmers’ market cruises along…
It's 11 am and most of our harvest is sold. This is good, because the quantities of what we've been bringing have been fine. Still, with no early tomatoes, late green beans, not much summer squash, a wiped out first planting of cucumbers, and hail-killed first round of much of … [Read more...] about Farmers’ market cruises along…
Still a lot of greens…
The Friday harvest is still greens-heavy, with beet greens in several varieties leading the way. Here, as the afternoon winds down and the temperature cools, Michelle and Lynn thin the second beets planting of Scarlet Supreme, with Chioggia and Bull's Blood off to the right. … [Read more...] about Still a lot of greens…
Rainy day market
Rain, rain, go away... Not something you'd actually hear me say, or even think, lightly. This morning's market didn't quite qualify, although it rained heavily and steadily for the first three hours. Rain at the market has never been too bad for our stand, people always come out. … [Read more...] about Rainy day market
Tiny harvest!
Spent the early morning harvesting a few CSA shares for a Monday drop-off. This is the first week of shares, and they're still small, mainly greens... There are many tiny farming routines, things you'd probably never do in a bigger operation, that I find extremely relaxing and … [Read more...] about Tiny harvest!