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Good Food ~ Quality of Life Correlation…plus Mkt 3.10.2018
We’ve figured out that as farmers, we can accumulate credit card points through our purchase of all the seeds, organic fertilizers, compost, and even all the stickers that label our bagged greens that...
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A Few of Our Favorite Things…plus Market 3.24.2018
Yes, our family did enjoy some short days this winter by watching The Sound of Music… 4 times. Raindrops on roses are beautiful, but here is our round up of some of our favorite things this spring....
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Indoor Market One More Time…4.7.2018…and CSA Sign Up
The good news in Richmond tomorrow is that our beloved Farmers’ Market @ St. Stephens is indoors an extra week. The weather may be a bit mucky, but inside it will be warm and dry and full of delicious...
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The Best Accessories for our Vegetables & Bread…plus mkt 4.21.2018
We have harvested a delicious load of vegetables for our customers this week! We have plenty of Salad Mix | Hearty Greens Mix | Radishes | Arugula | Spinach | Lettuce Heads | Microgreens | Sugar Snap...
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Roots, Greens, & Plants at market…4.28.2018
Spring finally feels like it’s settling into a reliable rhythm. The flow of seeds to soil, plants to field, and then vegetables to CSA members, markets, and grocery stores has now hit full stride for...
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Weekend Farmers’ Markets and CSA…for 5.5.2018 and 5.6.2018
It is finally May! This week is the start of our Farm Share – our Community Supported Agriculture program where members receive a share of our harvest each week from now through November. And this...
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Life Changing Lettuce & other goods…for 5.12.2018
Admittedly, we are passionate about vegetables. {pictured above: one of our Farm Shares from last week (share of our weekly harvest through our Community Supported Agriculture program)} When we grow a...
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Thinking About Fiber…plus CSA & Markets for 5.19.2018
We’ve been thinking about Fiber this week. There was a mention on the local public radio station to a 2017 NPR article about research on the microbiome of a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania: the...
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Why Radishes Matter…CSA & markets 5.26.2018
Before we started this farm, we didn’t eat Radishes. We didn’t buy them at the store and we didn’t grow them in our garden. It wasn’t a deliberate decision to eat them. They just weren’t on our radar....
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Making Things Less Intimidating…plus CSA & Markets for 6.2.2018
Sometimes things seem more complicated than they really are. We think eating delicious and healthy meals falls in that category sometimes. We really enjoy the way our family eats healthy, and we...
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A Portrait of a Young Farm in June 2018…plus CSA & markets 6.9.2018
We aim for our farm to mimic nature as much as possible. By definition, cultivated land is in many ways the opposite of wild land. We want certain plants to grow, and not others! But we mimic nature in...
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Make Things Easy When You Need To!…plus CSA & mkts 6.16.2018
Sometimes you need to make things all the way from scratch…sometimes you need to make things easier. We’re a busy family, and good, healthy food is important to us. That can mean some Sundays we make...
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Happy Summer Solstice!…plus CSA & mkts for 6.23.2018
It is officially the season of Summer! Hard work and good food is what that means around here. We’ve got Salad fixings, coleslaw fixings, and the sweet spot of the summer where we have Broccoli and...
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Allium Love (have we talked about this before?)…plus CSA & Mkt 6.30.2018
We just posted on Facebook & Instagram about how much we love the Allium family of vegetables. That includes Onions, Garlic, etc. Our love for them runs deep. We love them with almost every meal....
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Keeping It Real…plus CSA & Mkts for 7.7.2018
July and August are trying times around here. It’s hot. The work is hard and demanding. The plants constantly cry for attention. What does one do? Get goofy, apparently. And make really delicious food....
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The Summer Sweetness…plus CSA & markets for 7.14.2018
These amazing Sweet Peppers are now rolling in! They really sing Summer to us. . They are better than red and orange bell peppers, and they make their way into salads, salsa, sandwiches, tacos,...
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Yes, we CAN!…plus CSA & mkts 7.21.2018
And you CAN can tomatoes, too! Tomatoes love July in Virginia and now is the time to start achieving your canning goals. We have tomatoes available in bulk at our self-serve FarmStand and at both...
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Farmer Ancestors…plus CSA & mkts for 8.4.2018
We’ve been thinking a lot recently about our ancestors that farmed. Like many, we are only a couple of generations removed from farming families. Between the two of us, we have at least 3 grandparents...
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Answering Questions about Farming…plus CSA & mkts for 8.11.2018
A large part of the reason we operate our farm as a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm and why we send out these weekly newsletters is because we value helping our community learn about...
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It’s Palindrome Week! and Fall Crops are Growing…plus CSA & Mkts for 8.18.18
Palindromes don’t have anything to do with vegetables, but it’s August, and we’re nerdy farmers, and it’s fun to have something different to think about amongst the heat and our four-hundredth tomato...
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