Author: Josephine Alexander

If implements were kitchen tools

If implements were kitchen tools

We did it!  We shaped 40 beds, each 180 feet long, for Spring 2021.  In order for us to plant anything before mid-April, we have to make the beds in the fall.  In spring, the soil is too wet.  It is a huge weight off…

It is a bulbous stem

It is a bulbous stem

This week the shares include kohlrabi.  Kohlrabi is a cousin of cabbage.  Nope, that’s not a root!  It is a bulbous stem.  Peel well and enjoy raw, steamed, stir fried, or roasted.  It is a versatile, delicious and highly underrated vegetable (in my opinion, anyway).…

Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

We started digging sweet potatoes.  Hooray!  Although it arrived over a week ago, the soil has been too wet to try out our new digger.  And while it’s still pretty damp out there, we were able to give it a go early this week.  Monday…

New Tool for Sweet Potato Harvest

New Tool for Sweet Potato Harvest

It may still feel like summer, but I know it doesn’t last forever.  We have a boat load of work to do before the soil gets wet and stays wet.  Once the wet weather of fall sets in, the ground wont be dry again until…

Rain, rain, go away!

Rain, rain, go away!

Welcome to the first week of the fall CSA!  While the contents of the shares are still summery at the moment, lots of fall vegetables are on the way.  We had hoped to have arugula and mixed mustard greens in the shares for Wednesday, but…

Okra, Zucchini & Long Beans

Okra, Zucchini & Long Beans

Overwhelmed by okra? Okra is one of those very seasonal vegetables.  Unless it is frozen, it has to be eaten very fresh to be any good at all.  It needs hot weather to flourish and thrives in high humidity that keeps the night time temperatures…

Here a goat, there a goat

Here a goat, there a goat

Here a goat, there a goat The other day when I got home from the farmers market the goats were out.  The does, who had been all the way out in the back grazing on a hillside covered with kudzu, had gotten out and wandered…

Cantaloupe Coup and Butternut Bonanza

Cantaloupe Coup and Butternut Bonanza

Cantaloupe Coup The garden is cranking out the goods.  There is a lot to harvest this week, and I am grateful for that.  I am grateful, even if I am a little tired of picking tomatoes. We are in the middle of one of the…