[From 10-Sep-2013] Salad kale! Tiny, tender leaves, it's our finest kale!! Production is simple: fast-growing Red Russian flat leaf kale is direct seeded, plants tightly crowded in-row, restricting growth and producing an abundance of baby leaves that keep coming back, week after … [Read more...] about Salad kale!
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Winter market: third week!
Third week of our first winter farmers' market and it's going great. So far, the weather hasn't been bad, so it doesn't seem entirely radical to have freshly harvested greens and carrots this late in the season, but it's still quite a novelty at our market. One other small farm … [Read more...] about Winter market: third week!
First seed catalog of the year!
Well ahead of the pack, Veseys takes first new seed catalog of the year. They're a pretty marketing-oriented company, they get their stuff out early—this actually arrived a while ago, but I only got my hands on it now! Which is fine by me. I haven't been this, well, EXCITED with … [Read more...] about First seed catalog of the year!
Eat good food
We've been faithfully bringing the matching pair of chalkboards to the farmers' market since we bought them at an office supply box store in mid-summer, but it's what to put on 'em that's the puzzle. Today's new message: "Eat good food"! The other one (out of sight on the left) … [Read more...] about Eat good food
First day at the new farmers’ market
Here's our so-far-unoccupied space at the new farmers' market... This photo was accidental, clicked while checking some camera setting or the other. But when I saw it on the computer, it reminded me of the totally transient nature of farmers' markets (and tiny farming in … [Read more...] about First day at the new farmers’ market