July 30 Farm Stand

We are thrilled with all of the rain we got this week. Plants are lapping it up and enjoying every drop. Unfortunately, it may have been a little too late for our melons and winter squash, but we're keeping our fingers crossed they pull through. We thought our tomatoes would be in full force by this week's farm stand, but only a few have started to ripen. There are lots on the vine though so hopefully we'll be drowning in them soon.

For now, here's what we'll have at the farm stand Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in Blawnox.

Zucchini

Crookneck Squash

Yukon Gold Potatoes
Pear Yellow Tomatoes
Heirloom Tomatoes (Our first few!)

Baby Onions (great for roasting!)

Purslane (high in Omega 3s with a lovely lemony flavor)

Fresh Garlic 

Eggs

July 23rd Farm Stand

Holy hell it's hot. But we're plugging away trying our damnedest to bring you tasty deliciousness.  Here's what we expect to have at the farm stand on Saturday (weather dependent, if we get weathered out we'll send out a FLASH message across Twitter, Facebook, and a blog post here on  Sat. morning)

Raspberries!

Zucchini

Crookneck Squash

New Potatoes (white)

Baby Onions

Fresh Garlic

Cucumbers

Raspberry Jam

Sassafras Jelly

Eggs

Handmade Charcoal

July 16 Farm Stand

It's beginning to look a lot like summer in the form of beautiful and delicious red raspberries!

Here's the full list we'll have at the farm stand tomorrow. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in Blawnox.

Raspberries!

Zucchini

Crookneck Squash

New Potatoes

Baby Onions

Fresh Garlic

Radishes

Raspberry Jam

Sassafras Jelly

Eggs

 

PolyFace Farm Visit 2011 Overview

This last weekend Kristie, Kaylee and I had the opportunity to go visit Joel Salatin's Polyface Inc. farm in Stauton, VA.

 Joel is one of the leading pioneers in the sustainable farming movement and is very good at what he does.  Their farm focuses mainly on meat production (pastured beef, poultry, pork and rabbits) and is a second generation operation.  According to him, the farm was started by his father back in the 60s from near scratch.  Today it is arguably one of the most famous sustainable agriculture farms and an operation that employs 20 people and has operations on 7 separate farms.

Joel hosts a 'field day/open house' every 3 years where they hold talks and allow people to just roam free all over the farm.  We took a ton of pics and will post little mini-pieces on each of his operations as we sort through the data.  So here's a few pics to get us started and stay tuned in the future for more detailed descriptions of all the knowledges we gained this last weekend.

1700 people showed up for the 2011 PolyFace Inc. farm visit

The pasture where all the magics happen.

Joel leading the 8AM farm tour

Farm Stand Closed Tomorrow and Next Saturday

We will be spending this holiday weekend with family so the farm stand will be closed. Next week we are heading to a farm workshop, so we will also be closed July 9. We'll be back in business July 16!

We hope everyone has a wonderful July 4th!