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 around. We would prefer to grow out the seeds to 3/4 or full size plants. It is certainly more eco friendly!
The seeds are arriving! Ken starts the first full season crops in early February with the onions, celery, and parsley.
From the Kitchen. Winter! I start most days by lighting the wood cook stove. Ken’s favorite eggs are shirred; place butter in a small low bowl on a rack in heat. Melt butter and place a couple eggs in the buttered dish. The eggs cook so the whites firm up and the yolks stay soft. The dish is warm and the eggs stay warm in our cool house! We have eggs this winter as the pullets are laying. The real egg season starts when the days lengthen in early February through June’s solstice.
I have been making soups and stews from various stewing meats. For a variation I made a chowder Sunday night.
I think about a local food challenge this time of year as it is more of a challenge than summer when so many vegetables are in season. I also made some muffins Sunday from our corn and frozen raspberries.
‘Til January 25th, Judith and the Gang
