Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, beets, peppers, onions or leeks, greens, daikon radish, sweet potatoes and herbs Field Notes. Ken has started in on fall tasks – he tilled the area where garlic will planted. He has started the preparation for moving the mobile high tunnel over the fall greens. and expanded the pig area. He is crossing items off that to do …
Most years Ken waits for a frost before he brings in squash. We still haven’t had frost yet! People have been asking for winter squash and Ken needed to expand the pig yard so he pulled some squash for those who want it now
Ken is getting ready to move the mobile high tunnel over the fall greens. He has to clear out all the heat loving crops in the current location He lays vines on the ground as he plans to move the hens into this space once the greenhouse is moved
Ken cleared out the cucumber fence and prepared the area he will plant the garlic. Now I need to sort out the seed garlic.
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, greens and lettuce, peppers, onions or leeks, beans, salad turnips, cabbage and herbs. Field Notes. Brr, it feels like fall is here; the wind has a bite to it. Ken has such a long to do list he isn’t sure where to begin! He is planting for fall, picking heat loving crops, digging roots, and soon he will be getting …
Ken completed his smaller portable coop for the tweens! Last night we moved chickens: cockerels to the north coop. Ken found that a group of males without a female in their midst form a gang with a pecking order, but they don’t fight. Then the pullets went to the new portable coop Here is his new coop with many great features: There is the bird door with …
As some crops that love summer’s heat start to wane, the beautiful fall greens thrive. this year we have several wonderful new – to – us greens from our participation in the UW vegetable trials. Ken plants them in a “nursery.” Then he transplants them out. Here is a light green Tokyo bekana – a loose head tender leafed Chinese cabbage – great raw or braised …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has lettuce, greens, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, garlic, beans cucumbers, celery, and fennel Field Notes. Ken has been digging potatoes, harvesting tomatoes, peppers, etc. Plants are pushing that final leg of the marathon of the growing season. Enjoy all these hot weather vegetables now as some will end with first frost. We are heading into fall crops as well Ken has been working …
Ken made a large coop on wheels for our laying hens. Since chickens like to scratch, a stationary coop usually means the area all around the coop gets scratched to bare ground and there is too much concentration of manure. A portable coop allows the farmer to provide birds with fresh pasture and the safety of an enclosed predator proof coop at night. Ken’s “egg mobile has worked so well he could use …
This season we have a great crop of beautiful ripe peppers. I chopped and froze (no blanching) some for future use. At Ken’s request I made some ripe pepper jam, and today I made sofrito. Sofrito is a combination of vegetables that are cooked slowly with fat or oil to reduce moisture and preserve color and flavor. What started as two cast iron skillets of onions, peppers and some garlic became four small freezer jam …
