Why did you give me a bush today, you ask!? Well, that plant with those delicious pods are edamame also known as fresh soybeans. Edamame are traditionally sold on the plant as we have presented it to you today.  Just shuck the pods off as you would any other bean and boil or steam them.  [...]

It has gone by amazingly quickly this summer, but if you can believe it, we are half way through your share this week. What a summer it has been eh!? The crops are growing fabulously, the weather has been gorgeous, our summer interns have been awesome, and we have had many wonderful visitors!  Aside from [...]

So, did any of you notice that I didn’t write to you last week?  I was away in NC for a friend’s birth.  I fully intended to write the newsletter until her modem blew in a lightning storm a couple days after I arrived.  With no internet access I left you to your own devices [...]

What a nice sound it is to hear the rain falling outside my window this morning!  Yesterday, as I was harvesting young onions for your bags, I couldn’t believe how dry it was.  Since we do not do any type of irrigation, the rain is a good thing for all the plants in the gardens.  [...]

We are deeply immersed in our annual garlic harvest as I write this! It is an amazing amount of work, but worth it for such a delicious crop.  We use garlic in pretty much everything savory from morning eggs to aioli on a lunch sandwich to dinner fish or pasta.  We have a lot of [...]

Farming is never quite perfect no matter how much you pray for rain or sun or whatever it is that you can’t control.  This summer, however, is coming the closest that we have ever seen.  Despite many mechanical challenges here at Grassland, the weather has been just right.  Recently, it has been quite dry here, [...]

Summer is rolling right along here at the farm.  We still need to plant our fall carrots and transplant out our fall broccoli, but other crops are finishing out their annual lives.  We are about to pull our pea plants and till in a bunch of lettuce mix in order to plant cover crops in [...]

I guess Mother Nature is truly making up for last summer with this heat!!  We aren’t complaining though.  As time flies by here I know it will be December as soon as I blink my eyes.  Then I will be longing for these beautiful summer days.  This week you have in your share: Scallions, carrots, [...]

Once again I am amazed at how fast time is flying by.  We hope you have been enjoying your summer eating thus far and are looking forward to all of the excited veggies to come!  This week you have 1.5 lbs of snap peas, 1 lb. of garlic scapes, 1/2 lb. of lettuce mix,  bunch [...]

It is amazing how last season at this time I was writing a newsletter to you complaining about how the rain was starting to damage crops.  What a difference a year makes!!  The rain/sun combination has been absolutely amazing and the crops are growing like crazy.  You will find that you even have PEAS in [...]