Last Sunday we made a batch of kimchi for our winter stash, and after allowing it to ferment for a week, we jarred it today. Most of the veggies were from our farm with a few from neighboring farms. We did purchase scallions, ginger, rice flour, fish sauce and salt from the store. This is […]
We had a crop failure with our spring planted potatoes which was very discouraging because potatoes are one of our main storage crops that we sell throughout the season. We were lucky to have potatoes left over from our 2010 season, and that cultivar being Red Chieftain, that we planted early summer and finally dug […]
I haven’t posted in a bit because I have been meaning to charge our camera batteries just so I can take pictures and I just can’t imagine a post without photographs. We must Thank Danielle for these photos because she has been the farm photographer the last couple weeks. Once again, we have no photographs […]
The photographs in this blog entry have been contributed by Danielle Keeter. Each year we continue to experiment with season extension – we have learned that plants must grow to their full size before the cold weather and low day lengths of November and December set in but just last week we transplanted another succession […]
So exciting that we finished transplanting our strawberries to the field this past week but will have to wait a good long time before we will hopefully indulge into some incredibly sweet berries. What does it take to transplant strawberries? First we sanitize our landscape plastic, which is a weed barrier, using a mild bleach […]
WE FEEL BLESSED! We are still delivering CSA Shares packed full of veggies and are harvesting plenty of greens right now. We have great help on the farm and even though we have had a hot summer, it hasn’t been too awfully hot for the crops, and the creek continues to flow enough for irrigating […]
This past Monday we pulled plastic over Greenhouse #5 and are ready to hand dig the beds and amend with vermicompost. Our worms have been making some beautiful compost so our plan is to layoff the rows then add in compost to those rows. This is my first time trying to document us covering a […]
Thanks to Danielle and Townes, I had both Saturday and Sunday off last week which was the first since mid April. HOORAY! I mentioned to a couple of our CSA members that I was going to have both Saturday and Sunday off and so Jane Thomas asked something like, “What is it like for you […]
This journal entry is for Trace!!!! Yes, finally I am taking the time to write in our journal and let me tell you why… Because here in the mountains we are having cooler weather, with finally the nighttime temperatures dropping, making for some fabulous sleeping. This helps motivate me in completing my nightly chores such as journal […]
Jack Craft brought to my attention this interesting article on NPR in regards to tomatoes. Our top selling crop for the past several weeks has been both slicing and cherry tomatoes. We harvest our crop ripe and loose a bit of it to cracking. This next week I will try to find time at market […]