Garlic Scape & White Bean Dip
You need to balance the flavors carefully here or it goes off track.
Author: Jeff Poppen
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Garlic Scape Pickles
This recipe is basically the “Dilly Beans” recipe from the Ball Blue Book. We have oregano this week, which goes great with garlic. You could still use dill if you’d prefer. As long as you don’t lower the acidity, you can get creative with it, like mixing green onions in, or using your chard stalks.
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Strawberry Rhubarb Dessert Bars
I wouldn’t call this healthy, but it sure does taste good!
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Hoeing
There has been a lot of hoeing going on around here. Miles of rows have been planted, and the inevitable weeds are sprouting along with the crops. It is important to loosen up the earth next to the emerging seedlings so they can breathe. Short chipping motions cut the soil up and a quick pull…
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The Long Hungry Creek CSA
The produce grown along the Long Hungry creek has become priceless-we don’t sell it anymore. The invaluable, farm fresh food is now free, and the folks who eat it cover the farm’s budget. You can’t buy vegetables from us these days, you have to join the club and support the farm in some way. Like…
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Plowing and Harrowing
Plowing and harrowing leaves the soil fully pulverized, soft and fluffy. Even after a rainstorm the tilthe will remain loose and mellow. If it gets hard, the organic matter is too low and there is nothing to fluff up. If the percentage of organic matter is high (4 to %%), a lack of biological activity…
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Harrow
A harrow is the implement we use after plowing to break up clods, level the field and prepare a seedbed. There are several different kinds of harrows. Which one to use depends on the soil type, and the specific goal to be accomplished, and what you have. The farm I bought in 1974 had a…