Blessings and Gratitude: Thank you for being a part of the solution with us!! It was an unusual year weather-wise, but apparently this is the new normal. Even still, we have much to be grateful for as this season draws to a close. Shari is grateful for Bryan, her favorite husband
This week is a shining example of how CSA or farm membership works. In any given year we have bumper crops of some things and not so much of others. We planned to have frisée this week as we don’t usually have lettuce this late in the year, but we have lettuce after all, so we
As our season starts winding down, our shares really start filling up! Hopefully you have been enjoying eating with the seasons, as we are certainly providing you with produce picked at it’s peak of flavor and nutrition. Some of our cover crop is in and soon the rest will get seeded
Autumn is SO officially here! The transition from summer to fall was pretty drastic, but I’m still hopeful (naively, perhaps) that we’ll have a few clear, beautiful fall days ahead. It would certainly make it easier to bring in the last of the crops; but more importantly, our
This is Asian Heritage Appreciation Week! Many if not all of this weeks’ items would all be found in a typical wok in a typical Chinese, Vietnamese or Korean home. All the veggies would be chopped just right and the sauces would complement perfectly. In Your Share This Week Tah
Once a year or so we have a number of veggies ready for picking that all would fit well in a typical Russian kitchen. So this is Dancing Roots Farms’ Russian Heritage Appreciation Week – after all Farmer Shari’s great-great grandparents were all from Russia and eastern Europe.
This week we have two peppers that have been “boarded” on Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. The ‘Ark of Taste’ is a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of extinction. By promoting and eating Ark products we help ensure they remain in production and on our plates. To qualify
On Zucchini Abundance This is from a birthday card I received several years ago: A zucchini can a monster be, if left for a single day. And the worst is not the cutting free, but how to give it away! You’ll have to go out at midnight And leave it at someone’s door, Because when
It’s back to school time for many, which equals the end of summer for those same folks. But the school calendar and our growing season are not necessarily aligned as it’s peak summer season for us! The tomatoes are coming on strong, as are cucumbers, eggplant, and summer squash.
We’re just having a great onion year! These are some of the most prolific and beautiful Walla Walla onions we’ve ever grown. Just for fun, you might want to check out the photos posted on our facebook page under the heading “May Day Transplanting Onions” as that is when these
