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Taking the spring off from harvests has definitely freed up space and time to plant more cover crops than we have in a long time. It’s not planted with the timing I’d like, but better late than never and the triticale and pea mix we’re experimenting with is coming up nicely. Thursday we were able… Continue reading Cover Crops

I keep forgetting to take photos when we’re in the field. We’re on spring break from harvesting but plants are still going in the ground. The dry weather has been great for starting to get beds prepared. We could use an occasional rain to water in the plants we’re putting in, although we’re also getting… Continue reading Extended Spring Break

The weather definitely anticipated the official start of spring this past weekend! On Monday and Tuesday I was able to get out and start prepping all of the beds on the farm – something that basically never happens as we almost always have a sizable portion of the farm planted to crops that are waiting… Continue reading Spring Break

Leeks, yellow carrots, collard tops, garden sorrel, salsify and popcorn. The salsify is a close relative of the scorzonera, and can be prepared in the same ways. The garden sorrel is a very lemony green, good as a raw addition to salads but a little too intense for a salad on its own. It’s great… Continue reading 5th Winter Share

We’ll be tabling at the CSA Share Fair this weekend, along with tons of other area CSA farms. If you’re looking to connect with farmers this is the place to be. Can’t make it to the fair? You can still sign up for a share with our farm at our website, or find other CSA… Continue reading Share Fair This Weekend

Between rounds of seeding onions and printing out the planned field maps I had a nice lunch from farm produce. White beans, leeks and parsnips with pasta and Castelfranco. Not the prettiest but in a lovely vessel farm @lusciousporcelain and absolutely delicious! Thanks to everyone who has been signing up for CSA shares for the… Continue reading Farm Lunch

Just three items today: Radicchio, parsnips and leeks. These were the last of the radicchio and shown is palla di neve, one of the less showy green Chioggia types but definitely a hearty and delicious variety, and Rosato, one of the newer pink Verona types. I’ve been a little late to appreciating the pink varieties… Continue reading 4th Winter Share

Radicchio, leeks, yellow carrots, mixed winter radishes, and scorzonera. Except for the carrots, everything’s a bit smaller this week. For more on that red radicchio in the share check out my post over on Instagram @slowhandfarm. I was surprised to find that we still had radishes in the field after that freeze. There’s some superficial… Continue reading 3rd Winter Share

A week later than planned and a very different mix of veggies, but it’s nice to see that a few things survived in the field! Radicchio, parsnip, beets, leeks and mache. There’s a mix of different radicchios in the shares, including one forcing type. The very tender forced radicchios don’t keep as well as the… Continue reading 2nd Winter Share 2024

A quick reminder that last week’s scheduled harvest and CSA distribution has been moved to tomorrow. We’ll get a better sense of how things have recovered (or not) from the freeze when we start pulling them out of the fields but I’m pretty confident we’ll have some good leeks and roots and I’m hopeful that… Continue reading Tomorrow’s Harvest and Other Updates

I just took a trip to the grocery store and apparently that’s where everyone is right now. There’s also still an awful lot of slush and ice to melt and the forecast for this evening makes me think that tomorrow probably won’t be the best day for a harvest or CSA pick-up.  So, the next… Continue reading Ice Delay Take Two

Tomorrow’s CSA harvest will be delayed until at least Friday. Friday’s forecast looks reasonable so I’m hoping things will thaw tomorrow and we’ll be able to get into the field on Friday, but if not we’ll push the harvest until next Thursday after a full week of forecasted thaw. Hope you’re all staying warm and… Continue reading Ice Delay

While I was hunkered down in the office yesterday, Sarah took a little visit to the fields to check that her dahlia babies were still tucked in to give them the best chance of surviving this nasty cold snap. She sent me this nice photo of the snow blown field. In the 24 years I’ve… Continue reading Freeze Update

I’ve had a few CSA members ask me about what to do with the winter radishes and then I got tagged in a post from Culinary Breeding Network asking the same. Definitely head over to her feed for a really beautiful illustration of different types and more on them in the near future. Here’s one… Continue reading Winter Radishes

Winter got off to a good start yesterday. In the shares are leeks, radicchio, winter radish, kohlrabi, escarole, yellow carrots, frisée and mustard greens. Two heads of radicchio and both escarole and frisée was twice as much chicory as planned for, but the warm weather has sped those crops up and with the predicted freeze… Continue reading 1st Winter Share 2024

Winter CSA harvests start this week and I’m hoping at least one of the things we’ll have is escarole. Here it is two ways: in a soup, and as a fresh salad. For the salad I use the inner, blanched leaves and crispy sweet ribs, dressed with just olive oil, lemon and salt. The soup… Continue reading Happy New Year!

We were treated to a beautiful, sunny day on the farm for the final fall harvest and last farm day of 2023. The share looked very similar to last week’s, just with collards instead of chard. We’re taking next week off and then we’ll be back the first week of 2024 for the first harvest… Continue reading 2023 Final Distribution and 2024 Predictions

Today’s share had two heads of radicchio, parsley, chard, black radish, parsnip, frisée, and leeks. With many of the vegetables, I try not to overload the shares by putting in too much, or repeating items week after week. Right now the radicchio is really cranking, the parsley is delicious and abundant and we have extra… Continue reading 6th Fall Share

The next two weeks are our final fall shares, and final shares of the year. Looks like we’ll have more leeks and radicchio, along with a bunch green or one sort or another. I’m hoping we’ll also have some roots to give out, maybe winter radishes or rutabaga, and possibly parsnips! We’ll have more polenta… Continue reading Predictions for Sixth Fall Share

Beets, radicchio, escarole, parsley, green mustard, popcorn and leeks. The beets in the share are a winter variety, which is actually a genetic mix of varieties called 3 Root Grex. Greens are still looking good so we left them on for you to enjoy. Radicchio wasn’t scheduled to be in the shares but it was… Continue reading 5th Fall Share