Mache greens are a cold weather salad green akin to Tatsoi and are named thus as they are planted after the corn harvest.

Before this land can be worked it needs some water! It's dry as a bone.


What you see here is the removing of sprinklers. It's quite an undertaking on its own but many hands make light work.



Great work guys and gals!
🤗🤗🤗

Sometimes you gotta show a little love, sometimes you gotta show some gratitude. With the holidays rolling near we are taking stock of what we have and we are so grateful!

We want to give a special "thank you" to our many team members! We appreciate all your blood, sweat and tears ( okay, maybe not quite so dramatic 🤔).

Here is Friday's crew: Kevin, Olivia, Christian, Chelsea, Jim and Crosby.  😀😀😀

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Crosby, happy birthday to you"
Happy belated birthday, actually. It was December 12. He is 5.

Calcium helps to maintain chemical balance in the soil, reduces soil salinity, and improves water penetration.

The last of the corn. Make sure to grab yo self some tomorrow at market!!

It's Mow Town, baby. Gone is the time of yesteryear.

In honor of all the crops we received last year we give tribute with a little Motown. 😉😀

Cue: You are my sunshine by Stevie Wonder

Cue: I wish it would rain by The Temptations

Cue: Let's get it on by Marvin Gaye

From France's mirepoix (onion, carrot, celery) to Germany's Suppengrün (carrot, celeriac, leek) to the famous Holy Trinity of Cajun cooking (onion, celery, green bell pepper), almost every cuisine in the world starts with a common simple, balanced, vegetable base.

Today we salute celery! Where would we be without you (probably Blandsville).  😄

Rainbow Chard showing off some of its vibrant character!

November 22nd 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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We'll have a few trays of berries, a bunch of corn and more!! 

Come see us at market! 

You know where, the Madonna Plaza from 8-10:45! 

See you tomorrow. 😁😁

November 16th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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November 9th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Butternut,

Acorn,

Buttercup 

second photo, Spaghetti Squash.

November 2nd 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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"It looks like there is a little fruit out there" Jim

Not much but, maybe, just enough to tempt you to come out to farmers tomorrow??

We hope to see ya! 😃

October 26th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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October 19th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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October 12th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Gorgeous :)

So, I'm thinking about Corn Chowder. I'm thinking creamy, spicy and smoky!

I'm thinking "waste not, want not". After you've removed all the corn from the cob make a "corn stock" to use in your chowder! Basically, simmer corn cobs in pot of hot water till you've developed excellent corn flavor (about an hour).

October 5th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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September 28th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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September 21st 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Hey Crosby, what are you doing up there? Are you helping or hindering? Perhaps, a little bit of both.

This Rainbow Chard surely does live up to its name 

because even its roots are colorful!!

September 14th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Did you know LOVOF has a Piknu (kinda like Instagram) account?

Here's a picture that was posted about 6 months of a baby California King Snake.

 Ahh, too cute, or something. Brave girl.

September 7th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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August 3lst 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Melons!!! Cantaloupe and Watermelon playing hide and seek in the vines. Each day a little sweeter, can't wait!

August 24th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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August 17th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Humidity 100%. Ugh, it's too much.

Fun fact: Humid days feel terrible in part because our sweat can't evaporate,

 making it feel much hotter outside. 🤗

As you can see we have fruit of varying ripeness, the summer has been "fruitful" indeed. :)

August 10th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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It's baby squash. Really, too cute. :)

What is Tall Utah? Any guesses? If you guessed parsley you would be wrong,

 it looks exactly like it, because it's celery.

August 3rd 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Skywalker Cauliflower. Medium-sized, self-wrapping heads. Cold tolerant. For late summer and fall harvest.

 Perfect. :)

Crosby got high marks today - he caught a rat! Good job, boy!!

It took a while to get the perfect shot because he was avoiding the camera but all that changed when we reached the strawberry fields and then we was all smiles and yawns.

😁😁😁

July 27th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Italian Sweet Peppers. Spicy? Nay, sweet and delicious to eat!!

Hollar hollar penos. Jalapenos! They are small but they pack a punch. Candied jalapenos probably one of my favorites. Ever tried em? Imagine this lentil tacos with carrot ginger puree AND candied Jalapenos - sweet and spicy!!! yum, yum, yum. 

How do you eat your jalapenos??

July 20th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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If you look closely you can see two melons, one is dark green while the other is lighter with a raised crisscross structure called netting.

What's happening is that as the fruit matures the skin surface netting gets coarse and rough, the background color of the fruit turns from green to yellow and the tendrils near the fruit on the stem dry and turn brown.

So, what does all this mean? It's melon eating time! :)

Sunburst Summer Squash 

aka

 Pattypan Squash. 

The cutest squash that ever was. 

July 13th 2017 Weekly Newsletter 

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Such a big pepper for such a small plant.

 What an over-achiever. 

July 6th 2017 Weekly Newsletter 

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These are newly planted squash plants.

What is with the plastic cups?

First off, they offer protection from all critters and, second; they provide a moist growing environment 

(think mini greenhouses).

Diplomat is an Galia Melon with sweet aromatic green flesh. Galia Melons are much more juicy and flavorsome than Honeydews. Galia melons are ripe when the skin becomes yellowish and the fruit gives off an aromatic fragrance.

June 29th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Holy Moly! Those are Sugar Snap Peas! It's truly amazing, nature you astonish me!

The first tomatoes of the season have arrived!!

They are Oregon Spring! Look for them tomorrow at Farmers Market @ the Madonna Plaza from 8-10:45!

June 22nd 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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There are so many tomatoes! I didn't know that a single plant could produce so many! Jim says the yellow ones are going to be ready first.

Green Onions

and

Gourmet Bell Peppers 

looking mighty fine!

June 15th 2017 Weekly Newsletter

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Broccoli heads and Chinese Broccoli. Make sure to eat all parts of the plant, the stem can be particularly delicious. And the leaves too.

Did you know there are actually massive greens that broccoli heads spring from?

I'll admit they look intimidating, but they cook down deliciously just like any other green.