Alternate titles for this blog: If You’re in a PICKLE, This Recipe Can’t Be BEET! Don’t Let Your Neighbor BEET you to the Farm! BEET the Heat With This Holiday Recipe The Local BEET: Red, White, and… Chiogga… So many to choose from… But I can’t BEET around the bush any longer. This Pickled Roasted […]
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Here we are, almost mid-July… We can finally say that our market is well-stocked with all of the fresh and local staples of summer– field grown tomatoes, just-picked sweet corn, crisp cucumbers, and shiny, pungent onions. Kitchens are well-stocked with vegetables too, so well-stocked that we sometimes skip the meat that makes the meals in
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We don’t pull the blinds on summer nights. From bed, we watch the fireflies float out of the fields. Morning light wakes us up, more gently than any alarm clock but just as persuasively. And full moons—they cast illuminating shadows long after the sunset. This past Friday’s full moon was The Strawberry Moon, not named
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Our delicate purple irises bloomed this weekend and the fat peonies are just beginning to pop. I wait for them every year, anticipating their beauty, watching buds travel up long green stems and swell, a calendar of warming days. Suddenly, I am in tour guide mode, dragging my people through the yard: Look at this
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Last week, the weather was as hot as it has been all summer. We opened windows, turned on fans, and slept in a cloud of humidity under thin July sheets. We ate cold Tomato Stacker Salad because we couldn’t even think about heating up the kitchen. After a little wind and rain on Thursday, out
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Back to school is a little bit of an experiment. We’re busy, but we’re trying to make it work and there is a lot of trial and error. Turns out little girls who pick out their own clothes look like Cirque du Soleil performers, that paper lunch bags, although cheap, are ineffective (“epic fail,” according
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In the summer, it’s easy to notice growth. Fruits and vegetables compress a whole life cycle into a season, and change is constant. Today, I noticed that the apple tree on my morning run just right now actually smells like fresh apples. Yesterday, it held only small green fruit and before that it scented the
Two bits of news worth CELEBRATING: Our own Red Wagon Farm 10U Softball team brought home the OGSO State Title! Way to go ladies! We are super proud of you and all that you have accomplished this year. And… Tomato Season is officially here and in full swing! As you know, there is NOTHING quite
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I was lucky enough, this past week, to camp with one of my best friends. She lives across the country and we talk only a few times a year, but when I do see her we slip into each others’ lives easily, regardless of miles and milestones. These past few days, I snuck into her
This is kind of an unplanned blog, like Saturday was kind of an unplanned day. The boys won their baseball game, ignoring the heat with a win or go home mentality that reminds me really how old they are getting. When we got home, the kids blew up rafts for the pond while we froze
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