Our fields have been a bustling place this past week with more people stopping by in the span of a couple days than we usually get out here in a full season. Since last Wednesday, we have hosted a film crew*, a beautiful group of seven women, and a major fundraising dinner with 100 guests. An…
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Upcoming Farm Events + RECIPE: Fall Fajitas with Avocado Edamame Mash
We’ve been working our butts off all season and party time is quickly approaching at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm. Officially, there are still 13 days until the autumn equinox, but we feel it in the air. The cool breeze. The golden light. The slowing pace in our fields. The colored peppers and abundant storage crops. The waning…
Guest Post: Bounty from the Box Cookbook + RECIPE: Fennel & Torpedo Onion Salad
Back in early 2018, when my Carrot and I spent a dreamy couple of days outside Nehalem, Oregon at the cutest little AirBnb, we enjoyed many a moment cozied up in front of the woodfire with a cookbook. The place we were staying, North Fork 53, was formerly a CSA farm (now converted to tea…
Ode to the Season + RECIPE: Kale Peanut Salad
Slowly, it’s coming– this calm beautiful transition into fall. I love Wisconsin summers. Despite the way they seem to race by every year, I treasure them. I hold them dearly. Every season, we work hard to try and find just a few more minutes away from the farm to really savor them without work because…
Storage Crops + RECIPE: Late Summer Green Bean Salad
This time of year just always seems to sneak up on us in the most wonderful way. We are so laser focused on getting all the fall crops into the ground, harvesting the first of the tomatoes, preparing for Soil Sisters, figuring out how to get away for Kyle’s birthday (more on this later!), and…
Tomatoes Have Arrived + RECIPE: Simplest Summer Abundance Salad
The tomatoes have arrived and everything about them is amazing. They’re easy to harvest. They’re beautiful. They’re undamaged. They’re abundant. They are perfect. In our seven seasons of farming, we haven’t had many of what we would consider a “good” tomato year. A lot of the disappointment had to do with our lack of growing…
Supporting CSA + RECIPE: Easy Eggplant Parm Bake
When my Carrot and I started this farm seven years ago, it’s safe to say we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. And though we have grown our business by 30-40% every year and are extremely proud of the produce we put out into our local community each week, there are still…
Heat Wave + RECIPE: Crunchy Cucumber & Kohlrabi Salad with Chili Oil
How did you all survive that heat wave last week? We made it through relatively unscathed (though we have never been more grateful for these days in the high seventies and nights in the low sixties that we’re experiencing right now). In fact, the heat wave did many of our crops well. We had to…
Thoughts on “Balance” + RECIPE: Miso Roasted Root Veggie Noodle Bowl
The CSA started on June 12th and we haven’t looked back since. This summer has been an absolute blur of intention and frivolity, stress and joy, work and play, absolute order and absolute unplanned hilarity. As I said back in June, we set some big goals to not only farm this summer but also enjoy…
Summer Solstice + RECIPE: Noodle Lettuce Wraps with Pork Meatballs & Crunchy Garlic Chili Oil
We’ve almost arrived at the end of June, summer has officially begun, fireworks are just around the corner, and we are finally giving this season every bit of our hearts. We started this seventh farming season with some pretty exciting goals. Obviously we wanted to scale our CSA and wholesale accounts successfully, but that was…
The Leek & The Carrot 