Spring CSA Week 7
Last week of the Spring 2016 CSA! In the bag this week: Spring onions: Garlic: Broccoli greens: Green kale: Lacinato, AKA Tuscan, kale: Cabbage: Basil: We’re off to deliver veggies–more details and photo later!
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Spring CSA Week 6
It is raining. Again. We’re not ones to complain–if it was a dry spring we’d be wishing for rain. We had enough of a dry spell mid-week to plant okra, corn, and purple-hulled peas, though they may not produce until late summer. This week: Cabbage for All! This is exciting…
CSA Week 5: We got the beet.
There is a lot of love in this week’s box. It isn’t just that we love veggies, or that kale is showing us a lot of love this year. It’s the beets. We love beets. A few years ago we had the Year of the Beet, in which all of…
Spring 2016 CSA: Week 3
We love spring! Part of the joy is the growth of the season–but part is the surprise factor. Every year is a little different based on weather, shifts in weed and pest populations, stray deer, and other wildcards. Three years ago, for example, we refer to as “the year of…
Spring CSA Week 2
Your second CSA delivery has been dropped off! This week you’ve got turnips and turnip greens, a different variety of kale, spring onions, baby garlic, baby kale, and radishes. Baby garlic: You can use both the white and finely-chopped green portions of the garlic in cooking at this stage. It has…
Spring CSA Profile: Lacinato Kale
This year we are trying out several new additions to the Spring CSA, including this delicious kale variety. Lacinato Kale is also known as black kale, Tuscan kale, cavolo nero, or dinosaur kale. It was one of the plants grown for Thomas Jefferson in the vegetable gardens at Monticello, making…
CSA Week 3: Spring is in Swing
Spring is in full effect now that we are (knock on wood!) out of the cycle of endless rain. This week’s box resembles the first two, but with some new additions; read on! Red Russian Kale and Giant Green Kale: OK; more kale. We were skeptics at first, years ago, but…
Seed Swap 2015 Guidelines!
Our Seed Swap is coming up on Saturday March 28. To help things run smoothly, here are some guidelines for swappers: Keep it simple! Have Fun! Bring a folding table and chair(s) if you have seeds to swap. No charge for table setup. Package seeds in small envelopes or bags.…
Spring Seed Swap 2015
When: Saturday, March 14, 2015; 10am – 2pm Where: Oak Hill Farm What: Spring Seed Swap Farmers, gardeners, and plant-lovers! Bring your extra seed and share with other like-minded folks. If you don’t have any seed to swap, that is OK! Seed packets will be available by donation, too. Look…
New Piglets!
We had two new litters of pigs born yesterday! Angelina Jowlie (see video, below) had a litter of 10; Kim Lardashian (not in the video) had a litter of 7. This is the second time that our piglet births have been synchronized, and mothers and babies all seem healthy and happy.…