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Checkout our Bok Choy. We're having a wonderful crop this time. I felt guilty about not getting it mulched...but it did fabulous anyway!

We usually purchase sweet potato 'slips' to grow each season. But this year we have purple sweet potatoes we saved from another source in Fall. We also save our own Irish potato and fingerling varieties for seed potatoes. The always sprout eyes, and we just cut them up to plant. But the...

DH purchased some blue sweet potatoes at one of the farmers markets we attend. Another vendor had them. She's going to bring us some of her tiny ones to save for seed potatoes for next season. Here's a plate of them, peeled, cubed and ready to be roasted with last night's dinner. It's not...

And none too soon either! After nearly 4 weeks, we finally had a decent rain yesterday evening around 7:30. Around here we'll often have a dry spell for 2 or even 3 weeks in late August. But usually by September there's plenty of rain. In the past 4 weeks we had one small drizzle on a Sat...

I have about 4 lbs of nectarines. It's enough to make a batch of jam. I found the following Spiced Nectarine Jam, and could try that. But what would you do wih them? Any ideas to share? ----------------------------------------------- SPICED NECTARINE JAM Makes 6 1/2 7 half-pint jars Select...

Do any of you run a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) or maybe are a member of a CSA? DH & I have one with 33 members in one farmers market, and 12 members in another market. I'd like to compare notes, share ideas, etc. if this interests anyone.

We've been digging and digging potatoes - red pontiac, white kennebec, yukon gold and red fingerlings. They're fabulous! A couple night's ago DH actually cooked addtional potatoes after dinner for his dessert! LOL We had to mail order the fingerling seed potatoes. I'd like to save some of what...

DH & I decided we needed some new pics for our farm website, so we took these of one of the market gardens a couple mornings ago. All overall shot Lettuces, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Potatoes Cole crops - Cauliflower, Broccoli, Green and Purple Cabbages. We've already harvested the first...

We make a pastrami recipe that requires wrapping the meat in 6 layers of foil and baking at a low temp for 5 hours. Here are a couple photos of the homemade pastrami with a loaf of homemade rye bread. The original recipe BIL found on YouTube. Here's a link, includes video. It is...