Tag: sweet potatoes

Sweet Potatoes Planted

Sweet Potatoes Planted

  This is the last week of the our Spring CSA.  We would like to extend a big Thank You to all our CSA members this season.  I hope you have enjoyed eating what the farm has provided us each week.  We have certainly enjoyed…

Sweet Potatoes, Friends and More Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes, Friends and More Sweet Potatoes

It looks like the late summer heat wave has finally ended but when will it rain? The cool almost crisp mornings are a nice reminder that fall is quickly approaching. You wouldn’t think so by looking at the thermometer last week. It was hot as…

Potato Dig Party

Potato Dig Party

This week the sweet potatoes went in and the Irish potatoes came out!  Calling them Irish is a bit misleading.  Like all of our squash and beans, potatoes come from the Americas.  Specifically, potatoes come from the Andes where they were domesticated between 7,000 and…

It’s Weedy Out There

It’s Weedy Out There

  Tuesday I was hand weeding when Randy stopped at the end of the row I was working on.  “What’s that?”  he asked.  “What’s what?” I answered irritably, already knowing the answer to my question.  He indicated the row I was weeding.  “Sweet potatoes,” I…