Monthly Archives: September 2018

Since things are a little slow in the fields, I decided to use this space to share another note from the kitchen. First, a little backstory: ever since Frankie was born, I stopped participating in the Saturday harvest and started cooking lunch for our harvest crew. This season, we have […]

Kitchen Therapy

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The heirlooms and slicing tomatoes may be on their last legs, but our Granadero plants are still (miraculously!) cranking out paste tomatoes. Sure, they’re not going to be my go-to for a BLT or a caprese salad, but their flavor really pops after a little time in the oven. I […]

Paste for the win!

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Landon and I had big plans for Halloween this year. We were going to start a pumpkin patch in the former cow pasture and grow enough pumpkins to host an epic carving party. After the festivities, we were going to line the road with all the pumpkin art, illuminated with candles for […]

Pack up your carving knives

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Soil is a mysterious organism. All the lettuce pictured above was planted at the same time. All of the transplants received identical care, and the beds were prepared using identical equipment and fertilizer. And yet, the lettuce on the left is stunted and discolored, while the lettuce on the right […]

Unsolved Mysteries

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With the ground finally dry enough to till, Landon and I are mobilizing to get lots of things planted: kale transplants that have been patiently waiting on the hardening off bench, carrot seeds eager to replace their rotted predecessors, and all those fast-growing radishes and salad greens that can get […]

This week’s MVP: pac choi!

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