CSA Week 7 – 7.11.12
Lettuce Mix (large bag of mixed leaves) Tatsoi Mustard Mix (smaller bag of mixed leaves, mostly small, round and dark green) Add to your lettuce if you want a more interesting salad, or saute separately Head Lettuce (1 large green head or 2 small speckled heads) Garlic Garlic you buy in the store is dried. […]
CSA Week 6
Hello CSA members, Happy 4th of July! I hope everyone had a good holiday, and has some time scheduled to take get out of the city heat and relax a little bit this weekend. Or last. According to farmer’s market managers both last weekend and this weekend are considered vacation weekends, and we should thus expect our sales […]
draining wet field success… so far
back in mid february we dug a ditch around 3 sides of this field to lower the water table. We connected through the countour to the low point of the field in the left of this picture which drains to a creek. here is a link to what it looked like then: http://growingheartfarm.com/?p=2322
Dirtying Up Our Diets
last weekend’s chef and kitchen witch, liz blake, just shared this from the NYT. By JEFF D. LEACH OVER 7,000 strong and growing, community farmers’ markets are being heralded as a panacea for what ails our sick nation. The smell of fresh, earthy goodness is the reason environmentalists approve of them, locavores can’t live without […]
holy scrap – YATC refrigeration
behold the growing heart farm refrigeration room. we have 3 freezers that have been hacked. because they are chests they cold air does not enter and exit when you open the door and they get the extra insulation of a freezer. the key is the YATC made over at holy scrap hot springs -our digital homesteading idols. The freezer plugs […]
urban farms
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CSA Week 5
Week 5 June 27, 2012 We’ve got some variety this week. And some more greens. But think of this as the start of a shift towards non-leafy vegetables. Of course, not completely away from those good old salad greens and the summer standards, chard and kale. We’ll have a few more cut salad greens […]
