Author: Rebecca
Simple Refrigerator Pickles
This recipe can be used for cucumbers alone or in a mixture with beans, peppers, peas, cauliflower, carrots, kohlrabi, broccoli, garlic scapes, green tomatoes and more. This has become a summer snack tradition in our house! You can even add more veggies to the brine as they disappear. Ingredients 1 1/2 quarts water 2 cups Continue reading >>
Unrolled Egg Roll Skillet
This is a great recipe for those meals when you don’t have time to wash a bunch of dishes. One pan and done! Ingredients: 1 lb. ground pork (can substitute with ground chicken, ground beef, or ground turkey) 1 sweet onion, diced 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil 1 tablespoon rice vinegar 2 teaspoons minced fresh Continue reading >>
Dilly Beans
This recipe was passed down to me by a dear family friend, Laurie. Everyone raved about her dilly beans through the early years of my marriage. So I made the famed beans summer after summer only to figure out a couple years ago that it is simply the recipe from the Ball Blue Book of Continue reading >>
Week 20: Oct 19, 2021
End of Our CSA Season Another season officially in the books! What an incredible year it was for us. It is interesting the read the final newsletter from every year we have been farming and everything that we learned from that season. The early years started out pretty rough! It feels like we have come Continue reading >>
Week 19: Oct 12, 2021
Winding Down The season of sharing vegetables is winding down quickly. Only one more week and you will be on your own to source produce. Hopefully these last few shares will last you several weeks. We do plan to attend the Saturday Medford markets until the end of the month just in case. We will Continue reading >>
Week 18: Oct 5, 2021
Learning Farm We Grow hosted another group of students on Thursday this week. This time, the kindergartners from Rib Lake spent their time learning about the wide variety of vegetables and how each one tastes and how some don’t look like what they see in the cafeteria. They listened to a story and helped harvest Continue reading >>
Week 17: Sept 28, 2021
Seed Planning This is the seventh attempt we’ve had to figure out how to grow a great variety of crops well distributed and varied across the entire 20-week CSA season. In the early years, we didn’t do great. Practice makes perfect but planning and spreadsheets has really helped the most. We look at the days Continue reading >>
Week 16: Sept 21, 2021
Benefiting Our Bacteria This week we hosted a school group and revisited a familiar newsletter topic: eating dirt. Judging by the look on the students faces, they are now wondering, “Does eating dirt actually improve our health?” IN THE BAG Spaghetti Squash Broccoli Melon Carrots Bell Peppers Sauce Tomatoes Tomatillos Radishes Lemon Cucumbers Garlic Bulb Continue reading >>
Week 15: Sept 14, 2021
Giving Up On Summer Fall carries on at the farm. We are thrilled to have a summer-like weekend in the forecast. It truly feels like borrowed time. The average first date of frost for our farm is September 12th. We know it’s coming, but we are never ready. The frost kills all the tender summer Continue reading >>
Week 14: Sept 7, 2021
People Behind The Food Is it soup season yet? When the weather starts to cool down, we turn to soups and stews. The one-pot meal is quick and easy and makes the whole house smell good. With such a wide array of hearty vegetables and herbs coming out of the fields this time of year, Continue reading >>
Week 13: Aug 31, 2021
Seasons Change Do you feel it in the air? The seasons are starting to change. Very subtly Mother Nature changes course and then all of the sudden, summer is over. We’re so infatuated with fall that we completely lose track of time and suddenly winter is thrown down on us. If you’re like us, you Continue reading >>
Cabbage Coleslaw
We Grow’s take on a classic creamy cabbage coleslaw. We like to make a huge batch and eat it for several days. 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1 Tbs buttermilk powder ( or substitute 1/4 cup buttermilk) 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp salt 1/4 tsp ground black pepper 1 1/2 Tbs apple cider vinegar 2 1/2 Continue reading >>
Week 12: Aug 24, 2021
Keeping Up With Weeds Weeds defeat us. Weeds are our biggest problem at this point in our farming career. We’ve let them get away in previous years and created an even larger problem than we ever imagined was possible. It is all a result of the seed bank within the soil. These weed seeds wait Continue reading >>
Week 11: Aug 17, 2021
Boots On The Ground Every so often, we are reminded of just what it takes for a small farm to grow, harvest, pack and distribute fresh produce for 80 CSA members. While at the front you might see two farmers and their right-hand woman getting it done, the commitment of many volunteers is what actually Continue reading >>
Week 10: Aug 10, 2021
Who Pays For Cheap Food Every year about this time, we come forth with that story about the farmers market shopper who surprises us. This year it was an individual who commented that our peppers cost more than WalMart’s. Our quick response was to note the fact that you can’t talk with the WalMart farmer Continue reading >>