Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has salad mix, spinach, turnip greens, freshly dug parsnips and gobo, carrots, potato onions, potatoes, and fresh herbs Field Notes. Ken is a busy guy: cleaning up, bed prep and planting. The peppers are coming up in the germination chamber and next he plants tomatoes. And there are other spring tasks. I volunteered to clean the stationary chicken coops so Ken can place broody hens and a clutch …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has onions, garlic, squash, carrots, parsley, salad mix, and the first spinach from the mobile high tunnel! Field Notes. The days are getting longer and we look toward next season. Ken has planted t onion seed – the first of the full season crops. This starts a succession of seed plantings and shifting from warm germination chamber to sunny window, to outside with protection to transplant. And the …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has squash, onions, garlic, beets, carrots, potatoes, braising and salad greens, spinach. Field Notes. Transition time is here! Ken has planted the first full season crop – onions and celery and celery root. This starts the succession of plantings Meanwhile in the greenhouse we have spinach, some lettuce, turnip greens and chicory. Time to wrap up making pots and head outside! From the Kitchen. Here too, we are …
Each year I freeze some vegetables. In winter it is nice to have a taste of summer in the form of frozen berries or sweet corn or bell peppers, etc. I freeze a couple quart bags of blanched, chopped asparagus. Why? It makes GREAT cream of asparagus soup in February. Asparagus is considered a tonic for kidneys. Saute onion, add soup stock, herbs like thyme and tarragon and thawed asparagus. Run through blender, processor or …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has greens, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots, beets, squash, and parsley. Field Notes. Ken did get into the green house and started cleaning, clearing and getting ready to plant The weather has been unseasonably warm. Rather than celebrating we are wary. for the past two years Ken has lost his grape crop. Warm nights above freezing often sets plants in gear and if they are flowering or setting …
Greetings from the Garden! This box has pie pumpkins, onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, beets, celery root, parsley, and salad mix Field Notes. Happy Ground Hog’s Day, Imbolc, St Brigid’s Day, St. Blaze, Candlemas – or whatever you may call it. This midway point between solstice and equinox is when the days lengthen dramatically, the cold doesn’t last, and Ken starts monitoring temperatures in greenhouses. We are in transition and can feel spring’s approach. The …
Greetings from the Garden! The box this week has salad mix, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, onions, garlic, carrots, and cabbage Field Notes. Ken continues planting for the salad mixes, and has been making pottery. Soon he will start full season crops like onions and celery and parsley. Then it will be one planting after the next. Soon after that Ken will be seeding and transplanting in green houses. This time of year …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has salad mix, cabbage, potatoes, winter tomatoes, onions, garlic, winter squash, carrots, and beets Field Notes. Ken’s winter routine is to ski out to the greenhouses and check for deer and rodent damage. Soon he will be checking the inside temperatures in for planting! Ken continues planting in winter – he is planting greens for salad mix. People ask why we don’t do shoots and micro greens year …
Tonight’s supper was comfort food to my New England roots. Saute side pork or bacon and onion, add thyme and either clams or corn. I also had some boiled cubed potatoes to add. Add chicken or light soup stock, milk and cream, salt and pepper to taste. For the muffins I had masa from our dry corn, our lard, our eggs, and kefir from a friend’s milk. The flour is locally milled. It …
Sometime after Thanksgiving Ken spends some time in the kitchen. He likes to make some seasonal and not so seasonal treats. When I was organizing the freezers before I picked up the pork, I found some frozen cranberries. We also had some cream cheese so Ken made a cranberry swirl cheesecake. Did I mention he made the graham crackers for the crust? Once the lard was rendered and we had cracklings (bits of fat …
