Week Three: Weeds Edition

Week 3 newsletter Three weeks down and we can feel summer sneaking in on us. Enjoy those spring crops while you can – they’ll soon be distant memories as we move into cuke and zuke country. One of our members had a great suggestion for using the garden greens: Use kale, chard, or collards as

Week Two Newsletter

Here’s the news from Week Two – a week late! I’m putting this up here more for completion’s sake. By the end of the year, we’ll have 18 of these beauties. Thanks for a great week – NN WEEK TWO NEWSLETTER

New territory, honey bunny

Part of the fun of joining a CSA is learning about all the different vegetables and trying new varieties of old favorites. We’ve tried to be diverse in choosing 2010’s varities: mixing old friends with more unfamiliar veggies. Hopefully you will make some new discoveries this year. Here’s another LINK to an article about making

Holey Moley

I’m glad I waited to post this blog until today. If I would have posted it Friday morning, it would have had a lot more swear words. Rain – those elusive drops of moisture that tease us each growing season. Rain, rain, rain – when we need you, you couldn’t be farther away; when we

June 13 Newsletter

You can read our Week One newsletter on Google documents here . Our paper newsletter is too small to fit all the wonderful recipes we’ve found! Click on some of the following links for kitchen inspiration: Collard Greens with Rice Daphne’s Garlic Scape Dressing Compendium of Rhubarb Recipes including Norwegian Cold Rhubarb Soup!? Kale Chips!

Full moon, deep grass, cold water

What a difference a few rains make!  Everything has taken off – these weak little seedlings hit their growth spurt last week and doubled or tripled in size!  From Tuesday night through Saturday afternoon, we had about 1 1/2 inches of rain total.  The plants are loving it! The weeds are growing right along with

Is anybody out there?

Greetings from the first foray into blog-dom. I feel like we’re straddling two very different worlds with the Sweet Beet project.  In one, we communicate via machine, translating our words into tiny pixels streaming through the mighty Interweb.  In our other world, we deal with the very real, tangible, finite stuff: soil, seeds, plants, life.

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