Category Archives: Weekly CSA Newsletters

The shock of spring

Meet this week’s vegetables: Head lettuce — It’s a fresh greens heavy week, thanks to it being spring! Add to your menu more salads than usual, and you’ll be a happy camper. This time of year, we tend to eat … Continue reading

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A new farm of sorts: UPDATES!

Meet this week’s vegetables: Salad mix Radishes Head lettuce Parsley Chard Kale Mustards Cabbage rapini Celery root OR parsnips — As our winter stores begin to drop very low (it is May after all), we figured we’d let you choose … Continue reading

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When the cows come home

Meet this week’s vegetables: Bok choy — We’re finally diving into the plants in our field greenhouses! How grateful we are for these two simple buildings, which this winter weathered a significant flood before we planted in them for spring. … Continue reading

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Run like an antelope

Meet this week’s vegetables: Salad mix Parsley, walnuts & garlic — A seemingly funny combination, but these are all the ingredients for making a parsley version of pesto — a favorite spring treat on our farm! You can find the … Continue reading

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Loving Oregon!

Meet this week’s vegetables: Salad mix Stinging nettles — Be sure you read the info in the previous blog post about nettles before handling them! They really do sting! (And, they are delicious and nutritious too!) Purple sprouting broccoli Cabbage/Brussels … Continue reading

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A BEE-autiful weekend!

Meet this week’s vegetables: Purple sprouting broccoli Kale rapini — It’s a “greens heavy” week, thanks to a field full of thriving green plants. It’s wonderful to finally see some significant growth out there. It’s still all on over-wintered plants, … Continue reading

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Constant revision

Meet this week’s vegetables: Purple sprouting broccoli — We have reached the high point of this broccoli harvest. There is always an arc to certain kinds of “pick and come again” crops (peas, beans, broccoli sprouts) — the first few … Continue reading

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Our animal plans!

Meet this week’s vegetables: Purple sprouting broccoli — We’ve been watching these sprouts develop over the last few weeks, eagerly anticipating broccoli abundance … and, now it is here! These buds are more closely related in genetics and flavor to … Continue reading

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Spring farm notes

Meet this week’s vegetables: Rapini (lots!) — We were planning to make salad mix this week, but then a few factors changed our minds: 1. Since we are down an employee until Jesse arrives on Thursday, I (Katie) helped harvest, … Continue reading

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Old dreams of the wild

Meet this week’s vegetables: Cabbage Rutabaga Rapini Marina di Chioggia winter squash — These are BIG squash, but you can cook them as you would any other. We recommend roasting and then simply eating with some salt and butter (tastes … Continue reading

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