What's with this freak corn?
It’s from organic seed. I wonder if it’s mutated or just contaminated with gmo genes?
Refrigerator Dill Pickles
Anna made these DELICIOUS pickles from a recipe our neighbor Jay gave her (yes, she put them in an empty jar from store-bought pickles). Our CSA members are starting to get cucumbers, and I highly recommend this recipe (especially considering that some of the cucumbers can be a bit bitter because of the heat). Ingredients […]
Seriously?
So… you can breed plants to do all sorts of weird things. How is this guy supporting all those tomatoes? There are more tomatoes than leaves!!!
Rain!
It started drizzling a little while ago, but I thought I’d go out and check for Japanese beetles in the orchard anyway. Thankfully there were only about 10 (I killed some, but it’s so gross I just ended up shaking some off). Before I could finish checking the last tree (and trust me, it’s a […]
Vegetable Identification
Here are some pictures of the less-easy-to-identify veggies from this week’s CSA share!
water update
well it has not rained in some time and we are in the middle of a big heat wave. we started out the weekend using our sprinkler setup pumping from our water tank that was pretty much full. On friday evening our well water went murky. we suspect that we might have run it low […]
General Farm Update
Things are growing like crazy out here, and it’s gotten hot now. I picked a whole big bowl of shell peas (with purple pods!) last week, and also sixteen zucchini and some lettuce. We ate a couple of the zucchini, but the rest of the harvest will go to the people subscribed to the farm. […]
