The prettiest box so far!

Here's a shot of a box we delivered to Heather last week. I love the abundance of greens!

Made with Love

The greens and lettuces are still going strong as are the radishes. I'm watching daily now for peas and Richard has been busy with the new strawberry beds and planting summer squash, more broccoli and, of course, kale.

One of our close friends, Kristi, recently received one of our early boxes and made a beautiful tart from the spring onions. Not only did she make beautiful food, she also photographed it and wrote about it here. Kristi is in her fifth week of an eight week stint at Robert Reynold's Chef Studio. She was an amazing and creative cook pre-training--I can hardly wait to see (taste!) what she can do now!

Thanks once again for your support and patience as we work out the kinks with loading boxes, delivering boxes and getting it all right!

What's in the box?

We've received several questions in the last week about what's in the box? What ARE those greens? What variety of lettuce IS this? I'm loving the curiosity and the interest and am putting together a sheet with photos and names of everything that we put in the boxes. This is a great exercise for me as I've never learned the names of the varieties we grow--I just love to eat them. Stay tuned for the information sheet. I'll post it on the "What's in the box?" page as well as include in the boxes. 

Inching forward into Spring!

Hooray! This week feels like Spring is truly here to stay. No more surprise snow flurries and running out to cover the baby seedlings in the dark (we hope). We'll be ready to begin delivery of boxes soon. In fact, if you'd like the first of our salad greens and radishes let us know and we'll deliver a sampling of what's to come.

And speaking of what's to come, here's what you can expect to see in your first few weeks of vegetable boxes:

Radishes
Spinach
Asian Greens
Scallions
Peas

As always, thank you for your support and love of vegetables!

Spring vegetables are almost here!

We are fast approaching an abundant and beautiful spring! Our vegetable starts look great and we're planning to supply radishes, spinach, peas, lettuce, asian greens and cabbage beginning in April. We're hoping to receive commitments from at least five families in the next month for weekly vegetable deliveries. Our boxes are $25/week and will be delivered to Philomath on Mondays. We can also work out other delivery options to Corvallis.

As this is our first year we'll be looking for a lot of feedback about what's working and what's not, so if the delivery schedule needs adjusting, we'll definitely make a change.

Thanks for reading along and for the support. We're excited to begin our first season of supplying local families with our vegetables!

Long time, no post

It's been a long break from the blog! After musing about the farm and its possibilities over the winter we've decided to commit to recruiting at least 10 families to grow food for in the coming season. I've got some idea about the amount of work this may be, but until it's time to harvest, we can't be sure. Strawberries were booming last year and we had an abundance of pumpkins. Also, my basil patch was a delight after the initial slow start. We're hoping for better leeks this year as well as carrots. The kale and broccoli shined last season and we're hoping for more in the coming months.

Seedlings are started in the sunroom and have just broken through the dirt. It's a good reminder that spring will truly join us at some point soon. I'm working on growing about 50 baby sunflowers to give out with our Farm information in hopes of attracting those 10 families. Wish us luck!

Summertime Fun!

Welcome to summer. We are in the thick of it with a patio project, visits with family, bike rides, picking blueberries, and picnics in the park. A busy four weeks for us since school ended and summer began. Allergy season arrived a little late and is hanging on. Lucky for me the worst of it is over.

I've finally snapped a few photos of the Donalds, and I'm including pics of Richard and the soon-to-be beautiful patio, and another of Anna jumping on the trampoline at Jeremy and Derrik's house.