Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has greens, radishes, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, scallions, carrots or beets, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, Walla Walla sweet onions, garlic, basil and parsley. Field Notes. Ken has started harvesting onions – first the Walla Walla onions. Next it will be the red onions, and then the storage onions. Once he digs and pulls them he leaves them to dry. Then he moves them to the racks and I help …
Ken provides sequential pasture for animals here. That means he moves hens and pigs as needed so they get fresh areas to scratch (chickens) or root up ( pigs) Here is the new location for the “egg mobile” that has hens and turkeys in it
Ken has begun harvesting onions. He pulled the Walla Walla Sweet onions and set them to dry. Then He loaded them up and brought them to the drying racks. I helped him set them on the racks to cure. Walla Walla sweet onions is a variety from Walla Walla, Washington. They are juicy and sweet, but don’t keep much past Halloween. Every year when I start to use them in the kitchen, Ken accuses me …
