or through the right lens, it all looks so bountiful, and beautiful. And it is. The farmer looks so happy. When not drop dead exhausted, he is! But there is a reason that organic vegetables cost more than conventionally grown, and that the farmer has to have his back adjusted. Without chemicals, there is a [...]
Archive for the ‘Freshly picked’ Category
Through rose-colored glasses
Posted in Freshly picked, The price of organic, tagged beans, pests, sunflowers, tomatoes on 08/04/2009 | 4 Comments »
Sweet Corn
Posted in Food preparation, Freshly picked on 07/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
This summer, we had more sweet corn than any previous year. Gillen did most of the work to make it happen. He made some money on it too! But it is never enough corn. We love it so. In the end, the worms took over and we didn’t have as much as we had hoped. [...]
Passion Fruit
Posted in Freshly picked on 07/22/2009 | 2 Comments »
Here are a few of the flowers that you can find at the market or Local Farmstand store this summer. These are the fruit of Helen’s passion for beautiful flowers. Of course, she is also growing Passion Fruit: Helen has many talents. One of them is seed saving. I took several pictures of her process [...]
Summer meals usually include one (or ten) tomatoes
Posted in Food preparation on 07/20/2009 | 4 Comments »
We eat seasonally and don’t put up a lot of food, so by the time a vegetable or fruit’s season rolls round again, we are very anxious to reconnect. This is why we can stand to eat so many tomatoes for months in the summer. Plus, they are just that good. There’s simple gazpacho, with [...]
Duck’s Cosmic Kitchen
Posted in Food preparation on 07/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The guys were off the farm and joyfully waiting to be served many courses of good local food. It was a good time. Last night, Nicolas was invited to speak at Duck’s Cosmic Kitchen as part of a series of local-only meals that locavore, Virginia Dupree, has been organizing for three years, with Duck’s help. [...]
A few July vegetables, a few of those that eat them and a few of those who work with them.
Posted in Freshly picked, Uncategorized on 07/10/2009 | 1 Comment »
We are grateful for those of you who buy our vegetables. But those who just fly or hop on in and treat the farm like a giant free buffet? No gratitude for these guys. Sometimes they are pretty. One could mistake this white flying pest for an innocent, even ethereal, sightseer. No. This is the [...]
Seeds of Change Field Day
Posted in Freshly picked, tagged basil, carrots, farm tour, fennel, radishes, seed varieties on 05/11/2009 | 1 Comment »
From the Taste of Seeds of Change flyer: Throughout history, human beings have used thousands of plant species for food, many of which have also been domesticated. Today only 150 plant species are cultivated, 12 of which provide approximately 75 percent of our food and four of which produce over half of the food we [...]
Roasting Vegetables
Posted in Food preparation, Freshly picked, tagged asparagus, beets, carrots, garlic, okra, potatoes, roasting on 04/26/2009 | 1 Comment »
Except for during the dog days of summer, roasting is my favorite way to prepare many of our vegetables. Pictured above are a mixture of beets, baby turnips (so sweet! This is the one we fight over), garlic, onions, potatoes and carrots. I’ll include red peppers and eggplant when they are in season. We also [...]
Collards, asparagus and escarole – by Persephone
Posted in Food preparation, tagged asparagus, collards, escarole on 04/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I intended to post several recipes here this week, as my video camera charger had gone missing, but we have been happily occupied at the farm with visiting nephews and nieces and fort building. So, I am posting a friend’s recipes which (truth be told) are much better than mine anyway. Here is a link [...]
Salad
Posted in Food preparation, Freshly picked on 03/31/2009 | 3 Comments »
These baby arugula, red leaf and green lettuces left the green house a while ago and are now being picked from the high tunnels for spring salad mixes. We love salad with just a vinaigrette. But often we also add some radishes, some baby turnips (my children’s favorite vegetable in a salad), and whatever else [...]
