Thursday, July 2, 2020
This week鈥檚 crop is sugarcane, a plant that is sporadically and sparsely sprinkled across the farm.
Friday, June 26, 2020
This week we continue our anti-colonial conversation about crops grown here at the farm with a discussion on watermelon. We are currently growing Sugar Baby Watermelons and are obsessed with watching them grow.
Friday, June 19, 2020
This week's blog post, which focuses on okra, will kick off our series of striving to understand crops grown at the farm in an anti-colonial context.
Friday, June 12, 2020
We started writing these posts during the pandemic to give people a taste of the Farm while stuck at home and to continue to lean into the 鈥渆ducational鈥 piece of our mission as an educational farm.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
This week鈥檚 Farm Friday lesson is a brief introduction to (or reminder of) some of the intersections of police brutality, anti-Blackness, and the food system.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
If you鈥檙e a friend of the Farm, you probably share our aversion to food waste. Rather than composting or trashing my vegetable scraps, I save them and turn them into vegetable stock.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
The Farm鈥檚 outdoor kitchen has no oven, but it does have a grill! Over the years, we have adapted many recipes to work on our grill, and grilled pizza has become a staple.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Greetings,
As I finally finish staking and running a few lines of twine to trellis our tomatoes, I can鈥檛 help but smile. There is not much I love more than biting into a sun-warmed, vine-ripened tomato on a hot summer afternoon, and I鈥檓 thrill
Friday, May 8, 2020
Greetings,
As I chop down our sad and overgrown favas, I鈥檓 feeling compelled to reflect on and celebrate these wonderful plants!
Growing the favas has been a fun journey. We direct sowed them in October and watched them grow from bitty
Friday, May 1, 2020
Greetings,
Fresh herbs can bring such rich flavor to any dish (or drink!). I鈥檓 so grateful for the abundance of herbs that grow at the Farm鈥攍avender, fennel, lemon balm, mint, rosemary, and more! And while I am fortunate enough to be abl