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Everyone THINK Spring.

Farm Where Life is Good

Get’em while they’re hot!

The seeds just arrived! Nevermind that the delivery truck guy was too scared to drive back into our tunnel of snow…we are ready to plant!!! And with the planting comes the hope that there will be buying!!!

So what do you think? Ready for another season of veggies? Good eats? Fun recipe sharing? Enlightening produce factoids?

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Fun in the sun…northern-style.

Recipes for your Consideration

Here’s a good one to start using up all of those frozen paste tomatoes and sweet peppers! A little heat to warm up those toes…

Tortilla Soup (fresh from the freezer and root cellar!)
3 onions, ¼ and sliced
6-8 cloves garlic, crushed/minced
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp ground black pepper
1 Tbsp olive oil
6 cups frozen diced tomatoes (core, dice, freezer bag, freeze)
3-5 large carrots, chopped
4 cups vegetable broth
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground paprika pepper
1 cup frozen green/red peppers, diced (slice, freezer bag, freeze)
½ cup green olives, chopped
1 pkg WheatMeat, chopped/ripped
1 cup frozen cilantro (loose chop, plastic tub, cover w/ water, freeze, pop out and freezer bag)
3-4 leaves frozen dino-kale, chopped (wash, pat dry, freezer bag, freeze)
Optional:
1-2 frozen jalapenos, diced
1.5 cup frozen corn

Sauté onions in oil over medium heat until translucent, add garlic, salt and pepper and toss for 1minute.

Add tomatoes, carrots, broth, cumin, paprika and simmer 20 minutes.

Add peppers, olives, WheatMeat, cilantro and kale (and optional items) and return to simmer 20 minutes.

To serve—

Top with crushed tortilla chips and/or Tofutti-brand Sour Supreme

Farm News


Now all I have to do is get Roger to grow!


We are slowly waking up and switching to growing mode. The winter was a much needed respite from active growing! But we are anxious for the hightunnel hibernation to wake up and for seedlings to start sprouting in the basement.

We were out today in the sunshine to check on the single remaining beehive and add some emergency honey for feeding just in case. One hive died in early January, but this one looks strong thus far. It has been a hard month on the little pollinating beasties. Hoping for an easy spring to allow them to prosper so we can reproduce another hive and continue breeding in winter-tolerance!

Plans are in the works to fence in 3 acres of growing fields this year. It looks like 10ft high welded wire will be the goal. Maybe the lettuce and peas will have a chance this season. It remains to be seen whether we have the expertise and brute strength to get the mammoth installed before too many items are at risk. The winter wheat planting in September will be coming up in early spring, so maybe that will distract the munching-machines long enough for us to get it up!

Have a wonderful week, and enjoy the anticipation of vegetables.

We hope to feed you soon!

Roger and Lara