Posted in Greens, Recipes on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another delicious recipe from Chef Carol. This preparation method can be used with any leafy greens (the earliest vegetables!), and you won’t believe how easy and quick it is:
Sauteed Greens and Garlic
by Chef Carol D’Espinosa
1-3 sliced or chopped Garlic cloves
1 T. of Extra Virgin Olive Oil in a skillet on med. [...]
Posted in Community, Farm Work on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Friends of the Colchester Neighborhood Farm,
Great Big THANKS to Smokey Joe for repairing all of the leaks in all of the pipes from the winter weather and to Ben and Josh for replacing the toilet. We now have the water turned on at the front greenhouse, and the rest of the barn! (no more [...]
Posted in Greens, Recipes on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are very lucky to have Chef Carol D’Espinosa as one of our Farm Boxers. If you’ve ever come over to work on a Saturday or been to one of our celebrations, you’ve probably eaten some of Chef Carol’s fabulous cooking. She’s also generous enough to share lots of her wonderful recipes with our farm [...]
Posted in Farm Work, Soil on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have been BUSY on the farm over the past couple of weekends. With the weather warming up there has been much to do and too few hours, as always happens this time of year.
We’re working on catching the blog up to the progress, but we wanted to share a big step with you that [...]
Posted in Simba on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve noticed the rodent population drop significantly since Simba came back. Here he is, stalking his next victim:
Posted in Garlic on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ron with the Garlic:
The garlic that we labored on this fall is bursting to life! It seems even more eager for springtime than we are. We planted a few thousand cloves and the germination rate was very high. Take a look at that field. Every sprig of green that you see is a future garlic [...]
Posted in Simba on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, Connie was noticing that there were little chew marks on some of the newly emerging seedlings- a sure sign of rodents. So our resident mouse-catcher extraordinaire (and all around farm mascot) was put back to work! He spends the winter living the good life at Connie and Ron’s home, but now [...]
Posted in Celebrations, Community, Farm Work on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you to everyone who came last Saturday in such iffy weather and lent a hand for the big burn and the smaller tasks too. The major task of the day was handily accomplished! We got the big piles burned! After everyone left, it started to sprinkle again around 3:30 and Ron stayed til about [...]
