Heat, rain and earwigs
Thanks for reading, and for your support! We’ve been busy in the last week. With the heat and rain, the weeds have come out full force, along with bugs like earwigs. We saw a lot of them today. We tried to make sure none of them stuck around as we rinsed and packed your food,…
Read MoreHot summer
It’s hot! In fact, we might have gone from spring to summer a little too fast for some plants; the peas are not making much progress. They’re stuck at about one foot tall. We’ll keep watching them and see what happens. More red beets are up (did you know they’re really good for you?), some…
Read MoreWet weather and vehicle woes
Wednesday is the kick-off of the Sioux Center Farmers Market, and we’ll be there (as well as in Sioux City) with a few items to sell in addition to your boxes. We’re still waiting for the sunshine to dry out the ground so we can seed, plant, and weed some more. It’s been a week…
Read MorePlenty of rain, now we need some sun
It is raining as I write this on Tuesday, and people are asking about the rain. It will help the established plants, but the rain last week–over 7 inches in 36 hours–appears to have washed out, buried, and/or rotted some beets, parsnips, dill, and possibly cucumbers. We may not have had enough heat yet for…
Read MoreToo much of a good thing
We hope that all of your basements are dry. We are more concerned with too much water, too fast, in our gardens. We know that some rows of seedlings are buried by soil that got hammered by the heavy rains. Some plants look pretty beat up, and we will not be able to do more…
Read MoreHow we wash the produce in your CSA boxes
Thanks to Cora, who sent three good-looking recipes to us this week! Here they are in case you’d like to try them: Quinoa salad with roasted sweet potatoes and kale (http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/quinoa-salad-with-roasted-sweet-potatoes-kale-dried-cranberries-red-onion) Sausage kale strata (http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2012/01/sausage-kale-strata) Roasted root vegetable candy (http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/09/roasted-root-vegetable-candy) The moisture has been nice, but we are still behind with seeding and planting, and…
Read MoreNew recipes
We are finally getting back to closer-to-normal temperatures. In a pre-season survey of past subscribers, some of you asked for more information about less-familiar produce. For those who want to experiment with some new recipes, here are several ranging from easy to more complex. We haven’t kitchen-tested them, so if you try one and like…
Read MoreNew website, new recipes
The weather is beginning to look like spring. It has been brutal- not really that cold, but the lack of sunlight in April and colder-than-average March has us 3-4 weeks late with many seedings, plantings, and soil preparation. The ground is still cool, and seeds we got in between rain or snow have been slow…
Read MoreRecently someone I know was criticized for …
Recently participants of area farmers markets were invited to set up a “farmers market” at a showing of Farmageddon. Farmageddon is a film, which takes a look at current methods of agriculture. Some thought that vendors should not participate because films like this one demonize one method of production. Their position that there is a…
Read MoreMOISTURE!!!
Let it snow! It might not be much, but it is a start.
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