This post was originally published on my new Substack newsletter platform!! Yes, that’s right, my writing and recipe developing is moving to a new platform! This is something I’ve been considering for a long-time and am SUPER excited about. Substack is essentially a blog/website that is also a newsletter that will be delivered to your…
Author: Leek
I am one half of a beautiful farming venture outside of Evansville, Wisconsin. I run a vegetable CSA and market farm on about 3 acres with my husband, fondly known as "my Carrot man." Raleigh's Hillside Farm is in its third year of existence and every year is a fun, exciting new learning experience! This blog is my space to share stories about me, us, our relationship, our farm, farmers we respect, and dozens and dozens of recipes.
A little update + Celeriac Pear Slaw
It’s April and I’m not farming, not seeding in the greenhouse all day, and waiting for the perfectly dry day when my Carrot will till the pea beds and we can get them seeded. There are pea seeds. Plenty of them. We placed our seed order in early December before we knew there would be…
Creamy Butternut Squash Soup with Apple & Fennel
We’ve reached the end of the season my friends! And by that I don’t mean we’ve done our last CSA delivery. No no, that happened a couple weeks ago. For us, the end of the growing season means that the garlic has been planted, the tomato trellis taken down, the hoophouse construction finished, and the…
HOMEGROWN: Garlic Growing Guide
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother If you love cooking with garlic and would like to grow your own at home, today’s blog post is for you. I get a lot of questions about garlic. For some reason, growing garlic seems to really intimidate people, but garlic is truly such an easy…
Beet & Kale Salad with Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette
Hello dear ones and happy beautiful, cloudy, mystical October to you! I have been absolutely adoring this fall and the way it keeps oscillating between beautiful sunny seventies and moody gray days that are a bit cooler. I’ve worn heavy sweaters and shorts, cozied up next to bonfires and sweated while hiking, sipped warm soup…
HOMEGROWN: 4 Key Things To Do This Fall To Wrap Up Your Gardening Season Right
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother At this point in the season, I know many gardeners (even myself) start feeling weary and tired from their efforts throughout the entire summer (whether your garden lived up to expectations or not). It is all too easy to just limp to the end of the…
End of Summer Barley Bowl with Sweet Corn, Eggplant & Tomatoes
Hello dear ones and happy September. I’ve never been more grateful to reach this beautiful month of sunny skies, cooler weather, crisp mornings, and waning work on the farm. It’s been a season my friends: a beautiful, stressful, demanding, prolific, lifechanging season. A lot has happened since we last talked way back in May. Like…
HOMEGROWN: The End of Summer Reset- The Perfect Time to RENEW Your Garden
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother Welcome to late August, the magical time of year for Midwestern gardeners when our gardens explode and finally start to produce the long-awaited fruiting crops we’ve been craving since winter. Aside from a bounty of zucchinis, tomatoes, and cucumbers, this part of the summer offers gardeners…
HOMEGROWN: The Four Most Common Mistakes You Might Be Making When Watering Your Garden
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother This month we are talking about watering your garden: an easy choice of topic due to the drought conditions here in our part of Wisconsin. Despite the rain that finally fell this past week, we have still been experiencing uncharacteristically low rainfall totals this year,…
HOMEGROWN: Top 5 Tips for Transplanting Success
Hello my darlings and happy planting season!!! I think we have finally reached the end of evenings in the thirties (or at least I sure freaking hope so!) and it’s time to get serious with the planting. At our farm, we have just started to kick things up a notch, getting the first summer crops…
The Leek & The Carrot 