Well here we are, barreling down on the 4th of July and already well into(as Farmer Dave has taken to saying) one of the nicest Augusts I’ve ever seen. So we, and most everyone else in the valley, are irrigating just as fast as we can . . .
Hello, everyone, it’s here! The chard is here! While we’ve had tomatoes coming out of the greenhouse for almost two months now, strawberries have been and gone, and we’ve already cut our fair share of overwintering cauliflower this spring, Swiss Chard always . . .
These Japanese pancakes are good for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Quick and easy, the recipe is endlessly adaptable.
Well, you couldn’t have asked for a better strawberry season. Three weeks with hardly a drop of rain and heat like it’s mid-July. This is the longest run of the prettiest strawberries I can recall. Sadly, all good things . . .
The solstice is still nearly two weeks away but summer is here! The spring is off to a roaring start and we have the strawberries to prove it! Welcome and welcome back, everyone, to another year in Hedlin Farms 2015 Community Supported Agricultue program, a box of crops, from us to you!
All this sun means everything
Well, our year is off to a soggy, balmy start. Everthing seems to be running ahead of schedule—the blueberries are budding out, our cabbage seed crop is starting to elongate, and perhaps the most surprising indicator is that sunny, 50° days in February don’t seem all that surprising! Winter may not officially be over, but