Rebecca | We Grow

Carrots and Beets Available – Voucher Deadline March 1

We’re deep in our winter lull with greenhouse work just a few weeks away. February is National CSA month, the time when a majority of our customers sign up for their weekly and market voucher shares. It feels like a really important time to find ways to manage the cost of food. Purchasing a weekly Continue reading >>

Carrots and Beets Available – Voucher Deadline March 1

Quick Beet Pickles

This recipe is being shared by our mother Laura. She loves beets but she is the only one in her house who does, so in order to enjoy them whenever she likes, she quick pickles them. It’s actually very simple and works perfect for one lb of beets and a single quart jar. The recipe Continue reading >>

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 >>