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…
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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…
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…
Zucchini & Greens Pancakes
It’s zucchini season!!!! Which means our summer is about to get a whole lot heavier and the harvests are about to become a whole lot more constant. Harvest season at our farm always begins rather slowly. We have so much to get planted in April and May, we have very intentionally made the decision not…
Chickpea Salad on Toast
We have told so many people about the hoop house we’re building at our farm this spring and without fail, every single person asks us what we plan to grow in it. It’s a fair question. That is the purpose of a hoop house after all. But let me back up— I guess I’m making…
Evolution of a CSA Farm + RECIPE: Spinach, Turnip & Green Garlic Dip
Ever wonder how a CSA farm is born? Or how the heck two crazy kids coming out of college with next to no money (or skills) in organic agriculture have gone on to build a (mostly) successful farming business? Last week, we distributed the first boxes of our CSA and shared some words about who…
The Sun Found Us! + RECIPE: Spicy Pork Tacos with Scallion Green Garlic Chimichurri & Radishes
The sun has finally decided to come out for more than two days in a row and it is truly glorious out at our little farm. The gray, damp spring made planting hard but we somehow stayed on schedule through it all (I think our kick ass new hires may have had something to do…
Packing Shed + RECIPE: Spicy Chickpea & Sweet Potato Salad
The journey to having a building on our farm where we can wash, pack, sort, and store our vegetables is nearly over. Can you believe it? After a season of dreaming (2016), a season when we truly thought we would be building only to discover that the site location the whole family had settled on […]
The Leek & The Carrot 