September 23rd, 2013 Week 14 harvest: tomatoes, peppers (bell, mini sweet, serrano), cucumbers, basil, parsley, kale, carrots, turnips, beets, cabbage
We hope this letter finds all of you safe after the storms of this past week. After talking to some of our friends that live along County Road 250 and our friend who lives in Boulder we consider ourselves to be overall pretty lucky. However surveying the farm on Thursday morning was difficult. As some of you have found out by now the
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September 9th, 2013 CSA Harvest: fennel, tomatoes (lots of beautiful heirlooms of all shapes and colors), basil, onions, root crop bundle (beets, carrots, turnips), beans, peppers (sweet and spicy), eggplant (Group A), strawberries (Group B), cucumbers, squash, dill (if you want to pickle this week), salad mix (spinach, lettuce, mizuna, baby kale), kale
Wow, the harvest list keeps getting bigger. We had a wonderful family farm dinner last night with roasted fennel and root vegetables and wanted to be able to pass that
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August 26th, 2013 This Week’s Harvest: Tomatoes (2 lbs), Basil, Chard, Kale, Parsley (Italian Flat Leaf), Cucumbers, Dill, Zucchini, Serrano Peppers, Carrots, Turnips, Onions… And, Green beans, in my opinion a most delicious vegetable!
This is Werner, the one and only non-Dixon Adobe House farmer! I am writing this message because I like green beans. Green beans are the unripe fruit of various cultivars of the common bean and a tender vegetable. Beans, when grown to ripeness and dried, are the hard seeds
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August 19th, 2013 This week’s harvest: eggplant (Group B), green beans (Group A), carrots, turnips, beets (try roasted root veggies, yum), chard, kale, dill, cilantro, basil, zucchini, tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers.
Hello everyone, Peter here, giving Linley a break from the rigors of writing our CSA letter for week 9. We are officially half way through the CSA season and I’m 60% sure I’ve memorized 87% of everybody’s names. I have really enjoyed my weeks managing the CSA pickup at Linda’s Café. Being
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July 8th, 2013 CSA Share Week 3: Chard, Kale, Spinach, Green Onions, Turnips, Basil, Mint
We hope you had a wonderful 4th of July weekend. We watched the fireworks on a ledge by the college with a view up the valley, the Animas winding through town, and the sun setting over the La Platas. Wow, we are so privileged to farm in a town with a view like that! With June and the month of planting behind us, we move into July: the
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June 30th, 2013 This Week’s Harvest: Spinach, Kale, Chard, Basil, Mini Sweet Red and White Onions, Turnips, Mixed Salad Greens
With just 2 seasons behind us, there’s so much we’re still learning about farming in this area. Especially balancing the need to support a family on the land, but also responsibly taking care of the land we cultivate. Last week, we began to feel better about our irrigation and finished planting the farm. “The only thing that can ruin us now is hail,”
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June 23rd, 2013 Dear Adobe House Farm CSA Members,
This Tuesday is our first CSA pick-up at Linda’s Local Food Cafe from 3-6 (unless you’ve arranged for delivery).
Your share will include: spinach, kale, chard, garlic scapes, basil, cilantro, turnips, mini sweet red and white onions
Spring on the farm has been full of challenges in the process of opening an acre of new growing space. For the first time, we’re irrigating from a pond that is fed from the Reid Ditch, although
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