Author Archives: Katie
Two eggplant recipes
Baba Ghanoush Roasted Eggplant Dip adapted from The Joy of Cooking This is one of my favorite ways to eat eggplant. I love to make a big quantity to freeze in smaller batches for eating all winter. I never measure … Continue reading
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Getting involved
(CSA Newsletter: Week 29) Meet this week’s vegetables: Sweet corn!!!! — In spite of the cool spring and summer, we have sweet corn! And, it’s delicious! Tomatoes — We hope you’ve been enjoying our tomatoes this year. We sure have … Continue reading
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Busy busy bees — that’s us!
Meet this week’s vegetables: Sweet peppers — Over time, I think that we have learned to love sweet peppers just as much (or possibly more) than tomatoes. We eat them raw in salads, sautéed in pasta dishes, roasted in soups, … Continue reading
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Figuring out farmers’ practices
Meet this week’s vegetables: Yellow “romano” beans — “Romano” pole beans have a flat slender shape (as opposed to a round fat shape). This specific yellow romano variety is called “Gold of Bacau,” and it’s one of our favorites. In … Continue reading
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Learning to love tomatoes
(CSA Newsletter: Week 26) Meet this week’s vegetables: Tomatoes — The very first of this year’s tomato crop! These are called ‘stupice,’ and they are a new variety for us this year. They are an open-pollinated heirloom, which means that … Continue reading
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August market thoughts
When folks ask us how the farm is going, we usually tell them that it is exceeding our expectations for a first year. What we don’t always share is that our expectations continually sneak up as we have more and … Continue reading
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First workday!
Yesterday we had our first CSA workday here in the fields. Many thanks to Kate, Bernor, Pamela, Zelma, and Tricia for your amazing work. Even though Casey and I know how helpful it is to have extra hands, it was … Continue reading
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Farmer John & CSAs
This morning, the Oregonian ran another great article dealing with farms and the CSA model, this time focusing on the farmer-celebrity “Farmer” John Peterson (of the recent film The Real Dirt on Farmer John, which we still haven’t seen). Apparently … Continue reading
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A huge thank you
As you know, Oakhill Organics’s first season is off to a great start. We’re not changing the world or getting rich, but we’re feeding people some good vegetables and hopefully making a little bit of money. These are big successes … Continue reading
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We’re opening more spots in the CSA!
Our first CSA pick-up has come and gone, and it was a great success! So much so that we have decided to open 8 more spots in the CSA. That will take us up to 50 shares this year. Since … Continue reading
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