Here we go! Welcome to the Spring 2016 CSA. Here at Oak Hill, we love this time of year. The world has exploded in greenery and growth and we’re starting to see the results of planning and hard work that started back at the beginning of the year. Reminder: We wash your veggies each week …
This year we are trying out several new additions to the Spring CSA, including this delicious kale variety. Lacinato Kale is also known as black kale, Tuscan kale, cavolo nero, or dinosaur kale. It was one of the plants grown for Thomas Jefferson in the vegetable gardens at Monticello, making it one of the oldest …
Our Spring 2016 CSA is right around the corner! We will start in mid- to late-April, depending on the weather, with salad greens, kale, turnips, spinach, onions, garlic, and more. This year we are adding several new varieties to the CSA, including Lacinato Kale (also known as black kale or Tuscan kale). CSA shares will be delivered …
Spring is in full effect now that we are (knock on wood!) out of the cycle of endless rain. This week’s box resembles the first two, but with some new additions; read on! Red Russian Kale and Giant Green Kale: OK; more kale. We were skeptics at first, years ago, but we are still finding new …
Welcome to the Spring 2015 CSA! Here is what we have in the box this week: As usual, we rinse our veggies before they come to you–but they do come right out of the garden. We don’t use herbicides or pesticides, but bugs and dirt do occasionally come along for the ride. We recommend washing …
Our Seed Swap is coming up on Saturday March 28. To help things run smoothly, here are some guidelines for swappers: If you don’t have seeds, come anyway! We’ll have seeds and chili (we are asking for a donation for the chili). Our friends at Oleo Acres are having a propagation workshop at 1pm–right around …
When: Saturday, March 14, 2015; 10am – 2pm Where: Oak Hill Farm What: Spring Seed Swap Farmers, gardeners, and plant-lovers! Bring your extra seed and share with other like-minded folks. If you don’t have any seed to swap, that is OK! Seed packets will be available by donation, too. Look for more details on …
We had two new litters of pigs born yesterday! Angelina Jowlie (see video, below) had a litter of 10; Kim Lardashian (not in the video) had a litter of 7. This is the second time that our piglet births have been synchronized, and mothers and babies all seem healthy and happy. We’ve been feeding our hogs …
One of our favorite treats is a roasted fresh ham. People are used to pink, pre-sliced, cured ham. Fresh ham, on the other hand, is pork-colored and succulent. Think ‘pork roast’. Our favorite recipe is a variation of one that friends in New York made once upon a time, that they in turn got from …
It takes a village to fill a box. With the strange weather this spring, we’ve had to replant some things and others are either gone or off schedule. Enter two other farms: Tim and Betty at Oleo Acres and Michael at the farm-formerly-known-as Cluck-N-Neigh. Tim provided the sweet potato, basil, and oregano; their farm has …
