Harvest Newsletter

Greetings from the Garden!  This CSA box has spinach, lettuce, salad greens, potatoes, beets, celery root, gobo, green onions or chives, potato onions, and herbs.       Field Notes.  Ken is almost done with pruning fruit trees and vines.  He has been planting, and we have received our seed potatoes.  Soon we will set the late crop potato seed to chit in a sunny window.  Last week we had a big spinach harvest – …

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Sprouts for the Animals

Ken has sprouted grain for animal feed for decades.  Sprouting adds nutrition to grain, and is more digestible.          Currently he soaks grain overnight and pours into screens he made.         Then he puts the screens in a rack he got secondhand.         He fills the rack.  He waters the sprouts as needed             If the weather is dry and windy …

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Dafs in the Rye

Last year Ken led us through a renovation of the perennial flower are in the center of the drive.  We pulled out plants, separated weeds, divided, replanted on the other side of the drive, and then pigs and chickens dug up the area.  Ken then planted rye.  It came up early this spring and greened up     And there in the rye, after all the tilling, pigs digging, and chickens scratching are DAFODILS!

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