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Week 15 harvest: Sweet Dumpling Winter Squash, Beets, Tomatillos, Tomatoes (red and green), Potatoes, Carrots, Garlic, Onion, Fennel Out with the old and in with the new! We’ve spent the week pulling our hail-battered crops and planting spinach for next season. Given the shorter season and the ability to replant at the end of September, we may even get spinach this fall. Our plan is to cover the beds with low hoops and plastic to protect it until spring. Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 15 Week 14 harvest: tomatoes, peppers (bell, mini sweet, serrano), cucumbers, basil, parsley, kale, carrots, turnips, beets, cabbage We hope this letter finds all of you safe after the storms of this past week. After talking to some of our friends that live along County Road 250 and our friend who lives in Boulder we consider ourselves to be overall pretty lucky. However surveying the farm on Thursday morning was difficult. As some of you have found out by now the Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 14 This Week’s Harvest: Root bundle (carrots, beets turnips), Zucchini, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Yellow Onions, Kale, Salad Greens, Sweet Peppers, Hot Peppers, Eggplant, Pears Everyone who has ever visited the farm recognizes immediately that we have a killer view! I’m convinced it’s the main reason we get so much volunteer help – what incredible surroundings to work among! The thunderstorms are always fun to watch build (usually over Animas mountain as you can see above). Tonight I was watching the lightning in Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 13 CSA Harvest: fennel, tomatoes (lots of beautiful heirlooms of all shapes and colors), basil, onions, root crop bundle (beets, carrots, turnips), beans, peppers (sweet and spicy), eggplant (Group A), strawberries (Group B), cucumbers, squash, dill (if you want to pickle this week), salad mix (spinach, lettuce, mizuna, baby kale), kale Wow, the harvest list keeps getting bigger. We had a wonderful family farm dinner last night with roasted fennel and root vegetables and wanted to be able to pass that Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 12 This week’s harvest: Tomatoes (5 lbs!!), Basil, Chard, Kale, Cucumbers, Dill, Zucchini, Peppers, Carrots, Onions, Eggplant, Green Beans It’s CSA week 11 and we’re in the midst of peak season. My east coast farming friends have been experiencing the bounty for months, but here in Durango with our cold nights all summer long, we finally get a few weeks of surplus before frost arrives! Despite our late start on the new plot and the early season hail scare, the tomatoes Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 11 This Week’s Harvest: Tomatoes (2 lbs), Basil, Chard, Kale, Parsley (Italian Flat Leaf), Cucumbers, Dill, Zucchini, Serrano Peppers, Carrots, Turnips, Onions… And, Green beans, in my opinion a most delicious vegetable! This is Werner, the one and only non-Dixon Adobe House farmer! I am writing this message because I like green beans. Green beans are the unripe fruit of various cultivars of the common bean and a tender vegetable. Beans, when grown to ripeness and dried, are the hard seeds Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 10 This week’s harvest: eggplant (Group B), green beans (Group A), carrots, turnips, beets (try roasted root veggies, yum), chard, kale, dill, cilantro, basil, zucchini, tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers. Hello everyone, Peter here, giving Linley a break from the rigors of writing our CSA letter for week 9. We are officially half way through the CSA season and I’m 60% sure I’ve memorized 87% of everybody’s names. I have really enjoyed my weeks managing the CSA pickup at Linda’s Café. Being Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 9 This week’s harvest: zucchini, lettuce, cilantro, tomatoes, cucumber, dill, sweet red and white onions, kale, chard, eggplant (group A), strawberries (group B) “You are what you eat”, we’ve heard it from day one. As farmers, we are often asked about our diet. We have the opportunity to witness the differences between growing vegetables in poor vs. nutritious soil and there is overwhelming evidence that nutrition affects our health as well. Though the science of nutrition is in its infancy, we Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 8 This Week’s Harvest: basil, cilantro, dill, tomatoes, sweet white onions, kale, chard, lettuce, arugula, zucchini, elephant garlic, strawberries (Group A) Happy Harvest Day! We’ve decided to give you a little extra basil this week to make pesto. It’s the perfect time because the stems have not become fibrous, and the plants are still producing a lot of tender leaves. Traditionally, basil is made with pine nuts, but a cheaper alternative is to use walnuts instead. We make pesto every week Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 7 This week’s harvest: Spinach, Lettuce, Arugula, Kale, Chard, Zucchini, Tomatoes, Basil, Cilantro, Dill, Onion, Garlic, Eggplant (group A) It’s amazing how short, but incredibly productive our season is. It must be the high altitude sun! The majority of our harvest is still ahead of us even as we head into August. The warm season crops start producing slowly but before you know it, there’s too much! That is the case for zucchini already and it is soon to be the Continue reading 2013 CSA Letter Week 6 |
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