Finally, a sunny day (even though it rained again in the evening) for our Thursday CSA delivery. This spring has been both unusually cool and ridiculously wet–and because of that we have lost crops. The CSA rolls on, but our summer crops that we should have been starting to pick (squash, beans, chard, etc.) are either …
Two years ago, we were covered up in beets. CSA members complained–too many beets! This year, we planted and replanted and the beets are just now coming in. This is a great example of how crops can vary from year to year, depending on the climate and other factors. Never fear, though! Thursday boxes contain …
Reminder! Please return your empty CSA boxes! We have 2 boxes per CSA share, and each week we fill one and hope to get one empty back. I love the spring rain. One of my favorite outdoor activities is running in the rain, but I also like picking veggies in the rain. Shoes become useless …
This has been a strange spring; last year, we were all about the kohlrabi. Year before that, we had beets (and beets, and more beets). This year, we are covered in greens! Turnip, mustard, spinach… greens everywhere. We have beets and kohlrabi (technically, that counts as a green, too) coming–but we have had to replant …
Spring 2014–Week 1! Spinach, Mustard/turnip greens, Lettuce, Green Onions, Collards, Arugula, baby beet greens. Welcome to the Oak Hill Farm Spring 2014 CSA! A few opening notes: Now, on to the contents! This week we are heavy on leafy greens: Look for more veggies next week!
On Saturday, April 12, we had a visit from a large group of volunteers for apple tree planting. Our friend Robin works for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where she manages immigration services; she organized the volunteers and the whole tree planting day. The volunteers included friends as well as researchers from over 20 different …
“…farming is about twenty per cent agriculture and eighty per cent mending something that has got busted. Farming is a sort of glorified repair job.” -E.B. White I was just reading online a story about E.B. White’s farming career, leading to the writing of his classic, Charlotte’s Web. In the quote above, White talks about …
Hi, friends! So I promised to update the blog this week since the box had a couple outliers in it. I’ve been remiss in weekly updates. Our busy season is now our wonderfully-horrifically-stupendously-insanely-busy season, and the blog has been falling off the radar. But this week, I’m back! Here you go: Our box this week …
This coming Monday we are taking five of our hogs to Yoder Brothers Meat Processing in Paris, Tennessee for processing for our current Hog Share members. Yoder Bros. is a USDA inspected processing facility, family owned, and has so far been great to work with. Hog share members have mostly paid for these pigs already, …
When I take my headphones to the garden, my music is mellow. Unless I’m in a very specific mood, I don’t want pounding rhythms or blaring guitars—that’s for walking or running… or maybe chasing hogs. For garden work, think Nora Jones, Eva Cassidy, or maybe Frou Frou. This morning, with the wind wafting through the …
