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Simple stew

21 Sep 20112 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Beef stew

In the end, this is all about food and eating. Tonight, back to basics: heat applied to simple, locally grown ingredients, no culinary art or even a favorite recipe, just some mellow cooking. In the pot: grass-fed beef from a … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food, Veggies Tags beans, carrot, chunky cooking, garlic, meat, onion, potato, Summer 3 Comments

First potatoes

2 Sep 20111 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)
First potatoes of the season: Yukon Gold

Dug up 40 lbs of Yukon Gold potatoes, to see how they were doing, and for this week’s harvest shares. Not a bad haul for 50′, planted late, at the end of June, but they still have some growing to … Read the rest

Categories Harvest, Veggies Tags digging, labor-intensive, potato, Summer 5 Comments

Return of potato fruit

20 Sep 201131 Aug 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Yukon Gold potato fruit

Almost missed this time around, last seen here four years back: a few of the Yukon Gold potatoes have fruit this year. These are poisonous little, green tomato-like fruit with seeds that you can grow into…potatoes. You can find out … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Veggies Tags potato, seed, Summer, unusual 10 Comments

Next, potatoes

23 May 202021 Jun 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Gold Rush: russet seed potatoes

Next up in our crazily extended and seemingly neverending SPRING planting schedule: potatoes. We have what’s become my standard line-up: Yukon Gold, red Chieftan, and russet Gold Rush (above). Still haven’t decided how we’ll plant them this time around, trenched … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Veggies Tags potato, seed, Spring 36 Comments

Potato digging party

5 Nov 200921 Aug 2009 by Mike (tfb)

It’ll be hard to top THIS one for extremely labor-intensive tiny farming involving lots of peeps! Here, Libby, Lynn, Andie, and Mel hand-dig potatoes for tomorrow’s farmers’ market. The taters happen to be Gold Rush russets, and they’re in fine … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Harvest, People, Veggies Tags Andrea M, digging, grass, labor-intensive, Libby, Lynn, Mel, onion, potato, soil, Summer, yield 9 Comments
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