What does one do when winter returns on March 30th? Make jam, of course! I will be selling jam here at Keppers during the Earth Arts show Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th. Here are the raspberry – blackberry on the left and black currant on the right. I have also made strawberry, ripe bell pepper, and organic peach. Other than the peaches I got in Viroqua last summer, the jams are made from …
Greetings from the Garden! This box has sprouts, onions, garlic, celery root, carrots, beets, black radishes, kohlrabi, and dried black beans Field Notes. This is our final box. After twenty – three years I think we can say it was a good run. We have delivered vegetables to people on time without fail for all those years. Each box had at least eight different varieties, and many had over twelve. Ken did a marvelous …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s box has sprouts, dry beans, carrots, beets, onions, garlic, kohlrabi, celery root, radishes, and cabbage. Field Notes. This weekend I plant to use some of the potting soil to plant onion seed. Wish me luck! Ken had done all the planting. In the kitchen I started sprouts for this week. From the Kitchen. Sprouts are a sure sign of spring. This cold winter the frost has …
This winter I am spending many an evening shelling dry beans. Most years it is dry in fall and I set up a mud box and fan in the yard, walk on the pods and winnow the beans. But it was damp this fall so I brought in the pods, set them on racks by the cook stove and once they were dry I began shelling I sit and listen …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has sprouts, onions, garlic, beets, carrots, black radishes, Kohlrabi, celery root, and Cherokee Trail of Tears Dry beans. Field Notes. We are at the midpoint between solstice and equinox. These mid points are where the drama happens – Solstices and equinoxes mark a conclusion of lengthening days or lengthening nights. Most religions and folklore have names for these points: St Brigid, St Blaise, or Candlemas …
As the days lengthen the eggs start appearing again in the nest boxes! And so it has begun – egg season. And that, folks, is whey the Easter Bunny has a basket of eggs!
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has onions, garlic, rutabaga, kohlrabi, daikon or black radish, winter squash or pie pumpkins, beets, carrots and cabbage Field Notes. As I write this on Monday, snow is swirling around, and I join the snow day joy of school children. Snow acts as an insulating blanket over the garden and helps slow the frost dropping into the soil. The frost will affect how soon soil temperatures are warm …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has cabbage, onions, garlic, the last of the pumpkins, kohlrabi, rutabaga, carrots, beets, black radishes, and the last of the winter tomatoes. Field Notes. As many of you already know my husband, Ken died on December 19, 2017. Prior blog entries describe his illness and death and the obituary is posted as well. This was a difficult harvest from the root cellar for me as I thought …
Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has onions, garlic, winter tomatoes, squash, the last of the sweet potatoes, winter kohlrabi, beets, and cabbage. Field Notes. We are glad to see the snow; it will act as an insulating blanket and slow the descent of the frost into the ground. It also provides a check against erosion and will provide moisture to the soil. Seed inventory is done, and next we hit the seed catalogs. …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has onions, garlic, winter squash, sweet potatoes, cabbage, celery root, carrots, black radishes, rutabagas, winter tomatoes, and greens Field Notes. We have some greens in hoopettes in the garden, and we will see just how they do! This has been a season of extremes – 80 in October and a low of 5 in early November and this week may see the 60’s! Ken has moved poultry …
