Coming out of Hibernation
Many of us, myself included, look forward to the new seed catalogs with the anticipation that people of a “certain age” used to look forward to the Sears catalog when they were kids. OK so I really dated myself there but for avid gardeners picking out what to grow is the highlight of the winter. I love seeing what’s new and considered the hot trend.
Preparing tips for the growing season
Winter Reflections
As the year comes to an end and cold winter days are upon us, here are some ramblings of the year past and year to come. As is typical for us we had many ups and downs. There is the constant struggle with the weather and having enough help to keep moving forward. Many only see the faces at the store or farmers markets. It’s the unseen faces who keep the day to day operations going that are the true...
What to Use for Pumpkin Baking - It's not what you think
Just like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus canned pumpkin is a myth of sorts. According to the FDA “pumpkin” is “prepared from golden-fleshed, sweet squash, or mixtures of such squash with field pumpkins.” Essentially a pumpkin is a squash but a squash is not a pumpkin. They both belong to the Curcurbita family. What you buy canned is most likely made from a Dickinson Pumpkin (first photo in header)...
Holiday Tradition-Fruitcake
I know you’re rolling your eyes thinking it’s not even Halloween and you’re talking about Christmas fruitcake. In my defense a good fruitcake takes planning. It’s got to sit for aout three weeks and absorb the magical brandy which helps make it moist. My mom and dad were always on the quest for the perfect fruitcake. Growing up it was none of the Claxton boxed stuff but always homemade. The best...
From farm to table and back to the farm
Sustainable agriculture:
The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet society’s food and textile needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (https://sarep.ucdavis.edu/sustainable-ag)A question we are asked all the time is “Are you organic?” The short answer is no. The more complex answer is yes & no. We have always considered our...
Sept 12, 2022 A New Adventure-Farm Thoughts
As summer winds down and fall dances in we are shifting from berries to apples and melons to pumpkins. We are already finding orange Jack O’Lanterns in the field and there’s even a Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin peeping through foliage. We have started picking winter squash and putting fields to bed in a cover crop for the winter. If you’ve been in the store lately you’ll see a new face or three. We...