Eight weeks have flown!  Today is the last of our spring share pickup.  We really were hoping to have our  delicious cherries ready in time for our last week, and we did!  hooray!  Summer begins!!!….? Wait, we almost froze last night.  Temps reached 36 degrees with a little frost on the lettuce.  I was a little scared to walk down the row to look the tomatoes and peppers when I saw that!  Whew!  Sometimes when we reach 35-36 degrees the chill factor can freeze some of the tender veggies.  We were safe, with a close call.

This weeks findings:

• Garlic
• Radishes
• Salad Turnips (small white, almost radish looking globes)
• Spinach
• Lettuce
• Parsley
• Strawberries
• Cherries
• Peas
• Baby Arugula
• Pak Choi

Stir fry up the salad turnips, peas and pak choi, and garlic clove, with a little olive oil and soy sauce for a quick and easy meal!

We will be offering artisan sourdough breads, feta and chèvre cheeses beginning in July upon request.

We sincerely thank you for all your support and kindness as always!  We will see those of you who have summer shares June 1st!

Cheers!

Oh the rain!  Don’t we love it when Mother Nature takes care of our watering chores, and boy does it bring on the growth!  The cooler temps are keeping the greens growing and us gardeners happy.  The cucumbers in the greenhouse are looking fabulous…right on schedule for summer shares!  We just can’t wait for our first cuke! Beans are up, eggplant is flowering, tomatoes are growing and starting to flower and the walla walla onions are bulbing!  Yup summer is on its way.

What you will find in this weeks shares:

• a mix of snow and snap peas
• garlic
• butter crunch lettuce
• red leaf lettuce
• baby kale
• radishes
• beet greens
• artichokes
• strawberries

Next week is the end of our spring shares.  If anyone has baskets laying around, don’t forget to get them back to us!  Summer Shares begin June 1st!

Camorosa Strawberries

The days are heating up out there, we hope you all are staying cool and enjoying the last little bit of spring before summer really starts. Although with summer comes a whole new variety of veggies and fruits including tomatoes! (my personal favorite of the summer bounty) potatoes, peppers, onions, eggplant, corn, Berries, grapes, peaches and all the many other wonderful foods summer brings about.

Who knows if we are lucky we might be able to get a few of these summer foods to you before your season share is over!

Speaking of shares, this week we have some fun new things for you and some that you have had before….

• Purple Kohlrabi (new)
• Salad Turnips (new)
• Spinach
• Head Lettuce
• Strawberries
• Peas (new)
• Herbs
  • Rosemary
  • Dill
  • Parsley
• Orache (new)
  • Orache is used as a leafy green in salads or it can be steamed briefly

Shares are ready for pick up. They are exceptionally big this time, so bring something that can hold all of this garden goodness.

Garlic

I’m not going to lie, I had a really hard time wanting to put some of the produce we have for you, in your shares this week. I really wanted to be greedy and hoard it all for myself!  Fresh grown broccoli just blows store-bought out of the water! And garlic Scapes! OH! fresh garlic pesto on a panini, in a pasta or spread on garlic bread with homemade ravioli! Are you hungry yet?

I’ll stop torturing you all with these fantastic foods that you can have for dinner tonight, and give you the list of goodies we have for you this week in shares.

• 2 Spanish roja garlic heads
• garlic scapes
• spinach
• herbs (mixed variety)
• lettuce
• broccoli
• head lettuce

Shares are ready for pick up as soon as you can come get them.

We have a little “red” surprise on top of your basket!  Um hum!

There is extra stuff this week in the fridge and in the garden, don’t be shy to ask if you see something you would like.

side note:  hopefully by next week we will have peas, strawberries, and kohlrabi ready.

Where did the day go?  Nice sunshine brought plenty of work today!  Our spinach and lettuce are so tasty and producing terrific right now.  Other root crops are just around the corner as well as new varieties of greens.

This week we sadly added the last of our meyer lemons to your basket.  Don’t waste a thing.  The rind and all taste wonderful!

Things in today’s share ~

• Spinach
• Mix of Lettuces
• Meyer Lemon
• Elephant Garlic
• Fresh Shallots
• Kale
• Cabbage
• Microgreens

Enjoy and we will see you next week…same time, same place!

Today feels like spring!  Cruising through the garden smells nice, things are greening up, seeds popping through the soil, and finally a full day of sunshine!  We have two small additions to the farm, ducks!  These guys will help us keep the bugs at bay….Plus they are so dang cute! And of course Cody just loves to give these guys a bath! 

Are you ready for some fresh produce?  We have a sneak peek of some veggies that will be in our first share~ Parsnips, leeks, lettuce, spinach, meyor lemon, kohlrabi and hopefully radishes!  And whatever else is available.

Remember our fist spring shares begin March 23rd.

If you would like a great way to clean your spring share greens, try a spinner.  We just got some really good spinners in stock. You can check them out here.

Also,  we are now a drop off point for Bar 10 Grass Fed Beef.  They deliver to our shop every other week.  Check them out for more info on the link above.

We will see you in just a few short weeks!

February brought us some beautiful weather after the rain, dark days and more rain!  January’s rainfall alone brought us 2.96″ of precipitation.  It is really great to have all that moisture, but nice days are always welcomed.

Greens, peas and root crops are in getting ready for our first Spring Share in about 6 weeks.  Meanwhile we have some produce that is harvested on Thursday’s, like carrots, cabbage, lettuce, kale and spinach.  

Bar 10 Grass Feed Beef is now using our location to deliver their beef every other Thursday for anyone interested.  If you want more information click here.

We have expanded our growing area and have opened a few more spring and summer shares as well.  

We have some great new tested CSA shares recipes coming for you this year!  We look forward to seeing you all again SOON!

2017 Shares are now open!

It’s December! Temperatures are finally hitting freezing at night and we are planning our 2017 planting!  Crazy right?  We don’t think so!  Cabbages, onions and leek seeds were just started in the greenhouse yesterday for 2017.   Grow tunnels are getting planned for early spring harvests and new heirloom varieties are in the layout this year.  It’s Christmas time and we are thinking about gardens once again.

If you have any veggie suggestions for 2017 send us a message and we will see about adding them into our mix!

A peek of just a few new veggies this year;

Prosperosa Eggplant, Green Copia Tomato, Dragon Langerie Bean, Rossa di Milano Onion, Pusa Rudhira Carrot, Red Express Cabbage,  Golden Delicious Winter Squash, Bumblebee Tomatoes, Crosby’s Egyptian Beet, and dozens of other new varieties, plus the old favorites! 

Feel free to stop by through the winter months for fresh greens, eggs and winter squash. 

Once again, we really appreciate your friendship and support!

We wish you the Merriest of Christmases and a Happy New Year!

Wash turnips and remove and leaves. set aside for later. steam the turnips until soft, about 2-3 minutes, add the leaves and steam until wilted. Remove from heat, add lemon zest and olive oil, to tastes. and a squeeze of lemon juice over the top,

serve warm.

super easy use of salad turnips and pretty tasty too.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of butter room temperature 
• 1 tsp cinnamon 
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg 
• 1/3 cup pumpkin purée 
• 1 Tbsp maple syrup
• 2 Tbsp honey
• 1 tsp vanilla

Whip butter until fluffy. Add cinnamon, nutmeg and 1 Tbsp pumpkin purée. Mix until just blended. Add another Tbsp of pumpkin and mix again. Add the rest of the pumpkin, maple syrup, honey and vanilla. And mix until blended. 

Use it on bagels, toast, zucchini bread, anything you would normally use butter on. Great fall twist 

Pumpkin can be adjusted to your taste as well.