Four years ago, when we purchased this property, our garden was a forest. I still find big branches emerging from underground. Here is a catch of last Sunday while cleaning up an old radish bed. Remember our trial of different mulch materials to cover growing beds for winter? The first picture below was covered by…
We cleaned up komatsuna in our green house and planted tomatoes and cucumbers. We are ready for summer! And we haven’t finished with komatsuna. They are outside, growing. Sunday is our day off (well, kind of) and we often harvest for ourselves. Last Sunday we harvested purslane and cooked for dinner. Purslane is considered “weed”…
The rice plants in our garden finally look happy. We started them indoor on March 23rd and transplanted outside on May 4th. They were very slow to grow and tip of some of the leaves had started to become yellow. We were not sure if they survive or not… Now, thanks to the recent heat…
Last couple of weeks, our plants (veggies and weeds alike) have been growing fast with nice mix of sunshine and rain. Summer market, farm gate sale, and delivery to Ground up and Nature spirit started. In order to keep our energy up, we made “Ohagi”, Japanese traditional sweets. “Ohagi” is sticky rice (mochi) balls coated…
Announcement: We are going to have farm gate sale between 10am and 1 pm every Wednesday starting this week (May 28th). Thank you to those of you who came for pre-order pickup last Wednesday. Building a farm stand is still on our wish list but, for now, we will do what we can. We encourage…
