Week of October 17th, 2022 I crave convenience. I don’t know about you, but at least for me life has gotten a ton busier. Between older parents, children, grandchildren, the farm and Box of Good, my plate is pretty full. It is a good kind of full, but it is full. I gravitate […]
Week of August 14th, 2022 Last week I was walking the packing floor and I was drawn to all the local tomatoes that are coming. As a lazy cook or efficient (I will let you decide) I love to make one pot everything and occasionally 2 pots, but mostly I am interested in […]
Week of October 23rd, 2022 I had almost forgotten what rain looked like, but I was quickly reminded last weekend and grateful for the change in air quality. I even went hunting for my rain gear to layer up for 3 soccer games that the grand boys were playing. I hadn’t donned […]
Last weekend, I was up early; earlier than normal. And instead of tossing and wishing I could go back to sleep I got up. I had even turned off my alarm the night before, hoping that I could sleep past 5am. 4:30 came and I was awake, but so was the morning sky. It was […]
This weather has felt more like spring than a start to our summer. One thing for sure is our farm team has a lot of weeding to do. The boxes are trending towards more and more local and definitely a lot of summer fruit are showing up from the farmers in California. We have been […]
In the last 20 years I cannot remember a spring like this. We have had wet Aprils or Mays or even June’s. But I can’t remember a season when all three months were wet. It is what it is, some farmers are skipping whole plantings because the crop they grow like potatoes requires more time […]
This has certainly been one of the most challenging starts to a farm season we have encountered. We intentionally started later this year, apparently it wasn’t late enough. We are starting to see crops emerge and get established. Our initial waterlogged plantings have been weathering the onslaught of colder and wetter than expected weather with […]
I have been perusing my new cookbook One-Pot Vegetarian by Sabrina Fauda-Role. I absolutely love the simplicity of one-pot cooking. And thanks to this book I am learning a few new words to add to my repertoire. Double cream was a word that caught my interest early on. Apparently in England they have a thicker […]
Each of these items are a newsletter unto themselves. What do they have in common? Each of them leads to our experience when eating, affecting much more than our taste buds. While a ripe peach or sweet carrot can provide immediate satisfaction, so much more is going on with every bite. For the last 25 […]
I have been perusing my new cookbook One-Pot Vegetarian by Sabrina Fauda-Role. I absolutely love the simplicity of one-pot cooking. And thanks to this book I am learning a few new words to add to my repertoire. Double cream was a word that caught my interest early on. Apparently in England they have a thicker […]
Last Saturday, while starting out on the colder side warmed up nicely and was fitting end to a full few days of uninterrupted farming. We were able to get a 800 more lettuce transplants in the ground and direct seed some peas, beets and kohlrabi. It feels like I have been standing at the starting […]
The wildflowers in the Leavenworth, Cashmere and Wenatchee area are out and beautiful, barring any late frosts, and the next few weeks should be gorgeous, as well. Joelle and I have made a habit of spending a few days around Mother’s Day hiking and hunting for the best trails to experience the Balsom Root flowers, […]
A few months ago, I was thankful to have made a conscious choice to hold off planting till much later in the spring. I was not overly happy with the wet April, but as farmers we do our best and work around the weather. I am not overly ecstatic that we are two weeks into […]
I am officially switching to shorts and T-shirts in hopes of warmer weather. My clothing strategy hasn’t been very successful, though! We are still waiting for a good stretch of warm weather to kick it into another gear. However, with that said, the valley farmers are getting active and doing as much as we can […]
When our farm team (John and I) fortuitously made a decision to wait till the first day of spring to start even a single plant, and then plan to get those plants in the ground around May 1, we had no idea just how wet April would be. Last year it was shorts and T-shirts […]
We spent the better part of the last two days buttoning up loose ends. The usual affairs of planning, organizing, coordinating, and cleaning before our trip to NC, VA, and PA to see family and friends. This is going to be more of a whirlwind than relaxing, but it is farming season and spring break, […]
Well, sort of off to the races. We have started the first 1000 lettuce and onion transplants. We will be planting transplant trays of lettuce every 10 days for the next two months. Round two is in the queue! We have a mountain of compost that needs to be spread and we will need to […]
