The Leek & The Carrot

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…

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…

Be Holistic: Spring Tonics

Guest series by Steph Mullis of Holistic Medicinals Spring has arrived, the soil is warming back up resulting in all forms of life to be active once again. Like the rest of nature, we are ready for growth, healing, and expansion. We have physically and mentally been in our own versions of hibernation and it…

Cold Spring + RECIPE: Midwest Bok Choy Ramen Salad

Spring is chugging along my friends– chugging along very, very slowly. Things started with a real burst for us in mid-April. We were blessed with 70-degree weather and an absolutely perfect week. We planted onions and lettuce right on schedule. It rained when we needed it to. It stopped just in time. We planted a…

Fertility + Homestead Wisconsin + RECIPE: Lamb Steaks with Peanuts & Gochujang

It’s been almost a year since I made much mention of our journey into trying to become parents or our “issues” of “infertility” which probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Reading about someone not getting pregnant is not a particularly joyful or exciting topic. But since it is the current reality for me and…