277 CSA boxes. Last week, my husband and I (and our dyno farm team) packed 277 CSA boxes. Last week, five vans from an amazing local courier service pulled up to our pack shed to load their vehicles to the brim with goods from our farm and local area partners. They delivered 277 CSA shares…
Category: ramblings
Buttered Radish Toast
Since we last talked I have learned that sharing a salad and having a difficult conversation is indeed a beautiful start to upending the injustices that surround us, but that it is also no where near enough at a time like this. Like many around me, I have spent much of the last seven days…
Simple Spring Salad
Friday was my last official day employed by Midwest Environmental Advocates: a day I have already thoroughly shared all my emotions about and that I had seen coming for quite some time. And yet, the whole week was greeted with much more intense emotions than I ever expected. What no one can see coming when…
Rhubarb Hand Pies
Well my friends, a lot has transpired out on the farm since we last talked. It’s been a busy, beautiful, bountiful spring of easily flowing days- something I don’t think I’ve ever said about spring in all my years as a vegetable farmer. Most of our past springs could be best labeled with words like chaotic, haphazard,…
Chive & Cheddar Quiche
Our fields finally have something growing that we can eat!!! We may not have much planted outside just yet, but that doesn’t mean our perennials aren’t rocking. Our little chive batch has burst to life and I am absolutely giddy to have a bit of our own fresh produce back in our lives. Sure, we’ve…
Shaved Brussels Sprouts with Red Onion & Brown Butter Hazelnuts
I don’t know how many of you know that I have a part-time job off the farm. On the surface it may not seem as “glamorous” or interesting as my delicious, sun-filled farm life so I don’t talk about it as often, but I have been working part-time at Midwest Environmental Advocates for a very…
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…
Soba Noodle Bowl with Pork Meatballs
The last thing we did before going into a self-made isolation/quarantine was visit our friend Beth to help take the cover off the hoophouse she’d been using for a pack shed for the past three years. My Carrot, Beth and her husband unstrapped and cut the ratchet straps, took off the end-wall cover, slid off…
Pasta with Broccoli, Sausage & Whipped Ricotta
Hello friends. How are you? Are you handling this sudden shifting world around you alright? Are you getting the things that you need? Are you also struggling with differentiating between a want and a need? Are you settling into new routines okay? Are you feeling supported? I have so many questions for you and I…
Homemade Golden Milk
I had hoped to sit down today to write a long post about our greenhouse life– the things we’re planting, the rearranging and bettering of farm spaces we’ve done, the tables we’ve built, and the excitement surrounding the start of our eighth growing season. But suddenly that all feels a little frivolous, a little less…
The Leek & The Carrot 