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What’s at Market? Week of May 26th

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | 2 Comments »

We had a cool little friend hang out with us on our backporch yesterday. We named him Fred. Nice little guy. Slept all day. Around 9:30 he woke up, started to clean himself, and then flew out the back door. We ...

keep planting

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | 1 Comment »

Friday, the crew planted out thirteen 400 foot beds. That's a lot of food. Granted much of it was summer squash, winter squash, and cukes- which are planted one row per bed 2 feet apart- but it's still a lot ...

Oh it’s been hot!

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »

Irrigate Everything. A lot. That's been our mantra for the last three days. I think we're all recovering still from the heat wave. I've noticed that everyone has been operating a little slower over the past few days. Tuesday is supposed to be ...

Recipes- Week of May 11th

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »

Oh Kale,how I love thee- GREENS AND BULGUR GRATIN 1/2 cup coarse bulgur* 2 pounds assorted greens such as kale, collard, escarole, spinach, Swiss chard, and/or mustard greens 6 large garlic cloves, minced or 1 bunch green garlic! 3 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan ...

Busy Times

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | 2 Comments »

This is always the busiest time of the year. Planting everything and weeding everything. But luckily we have a top notch crew to contend with all of this. This allows me to get other things done that normally might be ...

Store Wars and the Meatrix

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »

One of our CSA members sent this link to me the other day. Store Wars I'd forgotten about it since I first saw it last year but really enjoyed watching it again. There's also another short film by the same folks called The Meatrix Good ...

On the radio

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness, Video | 2 Comments »

Click to play I was interviewed for a radio show on Jefferson Exchange the other day. I was interviewed over the phone. Here are my answers. You'll have to guess what was asked of me. Multimedia in effect!

Samuel Wayne Duff

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »

I just wanted to mention that my sister had a baby boy today. He's a big dude at 10 pounds 1 ounce. Congrats to Noelle and Jeff! We love you.

Ahhh transplanting and diesel

Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Farm, General Randomness | No Comments »

Today we had another major plant out. Lettuce, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Bok Choy, and our first sweet Onions of the season. (We do have some overwintered as well). We're trying a sweet onion variety this year being developed here in ...

Ashland Daily Tidings Story

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | 1 Comment »

There was a nice writeup about CSAs in the area today in the Ashland Daily Tidings, they start the piece writing about our new hybrid CSA program. Check it out here.