Week 8 – 2010 Harvest As is customary here at Dancing Roots Farm, we spent our Independence Day celebrating our freedom from unsustainable, Industrial Agriculture and worked on our farm! Well, OK, mostly independent… we’re not purists and do buy avocados, lemons and limes

Week 7 It’s finally started drying up out here, and before you know it, we’re further behind. Such is the life of small diversified farmers in the Willamette Valley: As we desperately work to get caught up with our planting and seeding, cultivating and mowing – all behind because

Well, the not-so-good news is that the share this week is light again, as we’re still feeling the effects of the very wet spring. The good news is that there’s lots of spinach & lettuce! According to the Madison Area CSA Coalition’s cookbook From Asparagus to Zucchini, spinach

We hope you’re still hankering for greens, as that is what we have in abundance thanks to this very wet spring. I suppose we have much to be grateful for; at least we’re not flooding like some of our other farmer friends! The Spinach especially loves this cool wet weather and

Week 3 of the 2010 Harvest About your Veggies: Kale is the most ancient and among the earliest cultivated member of the cabbage family; it was a favorite in ancient Rome. Kale is rich in vitamins A, C and calcium. It is also the highest in protein content of all the cultivated vegetables.

Week 2 of the 2010 Harvest Washing & Storing Greens: We recommend washing everything when you get it home, then storing it properly. For head lettuce & lettuce mix, we use a salad spinner and find it indispensable. We often store lettuce in the spinner in the fridge. All other

One of our guiding mottos here at the farm is: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” Membership in farms such as ours is a rational and sophisticated response to the growing social and environmental problems of the modern food system. Thank you