May’s Monthly Meat CSA
Your small / medium share will include a mix of the following: PORK, from Green Gate Farms A mix of rare-breed Guinea Hog cuts with lots of marbling. This is not “the other white meat.” The meat is...
View ArticleFlooded Flower Fields
On Saturday I gathered stems for Kerstin’s weekly portrait of your upcoming share. I was tickled to see the scarlet celosia filling out and bright rudebekia beginning to pop. As you can see from this...
View ArticleCSA Newsletter Week 10A
NOTES FROM FARMER ERIN Several days of consistent sunshine has helped us shift from despair to repair. Weeds are thigh high and all farmers are scrambling to harvest what remains. Now is the time to...
View ArticleRain Share
Rain is predicted today. Again. Massive amounts are headed for east of 1-35 say the folks at KVUE. This time we’ve built up some berms in an attempt to redirect flooding. And I’m trying to focus on...
View ArticleCSA Newsletter Week 13B
FIELD NOTES Howdy folks, Only 7 more pick up weeks of the Spring/Summer CSA left, how time flies! We’ll be loading you down with tomatoes this week and hopefully have plenty to spare for two more weeks...
View ArticleFarm Angels
This photo of Community Organizer Nikkie Shubitz holding our first flower share of the season makes me happy. She put together a group of people (a.k.a. “farm members”) at her office (a.k.a. “pick-up...
View ArticleCSA Newsletter Week 14A
FIELD NOTES Howdy, As we get deeper into the summer, and closer to the end of the CSA, the heat is really starting to set in. I do have to say it has been pretty mild so far, though. The steady heat is...
View ArticleCSA Newsletter Week 15B
FIELD NOTES Howdy folks, Only 4 more CSA pick ups left of the summer season (if you signed up at the beginning your last share will include a storage share). I must admit I’m excited to clear out the...
View ArticleStraight Bunch
Growing cut flowers has meant learning new terms and tools. Scarification, Dibble Stick, and True Leaves are just a few that I’ve mastered. But “straight bunch” is a floral term that continues to make...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Barns
by Farmer Skip Adapt or die is nature’s first and final law. Defy it all we want, nature demands change and even the greatest fortunes cannot maintain the status quo. This past week I saw that sobering...
View ArticleCSA Newsletter Week 16A
FIELD NOTES Its looking like Texas summer is finally on its way. Temperatures are supposed to be in the high 90’s this week and possibly hit the triple digits early next week. That means fewer and...
View ArticleCSA NEWSLETTER WEEK 17B
FIELD NOTES Howdy folks, Thanks for sticking with us to the end. This is the second to last week of the CSA for most members but the last week for some! Alternating “B” week members will be receiving...
View ArticleTithonia, Ageratum and More
Last week, I took a brief reprieve beside a lake in New Jersey. This much needed break from floods and other unexpected disappointments, meant that our talented staff crafted your bouquets. By the look...
View ArticleCSA Newsletter Week 18A
FIELD NOTES Hey there folks, So we’ve made it to the last week. The fields are looking pretty tired at this point and I think so are most of us. As we see more triple digit days we’re already getting...
View ArticleFall 2015 Season Begins
This week – just one from October – is expected to be near 100 degrees all week. Frankly, I’ve had enough. Enough of sweat rolling down my body, enough of my brain feeling like lead. My favorite cure...
View ArticleSneezing and Escaping
I am counting the hours till I leave for the ASCFG conference in Madison, WI. Not only will I get to see the Arnofsky’s present — always a treat — we will learn about their new peony farm in Minnesota....
View ArticlePost-Flood Bouquets
On this gorgeous sunny day I was filled with optimism as I trudged through the puddles, standing reminders of more than 10″ of rain this weekend. I checked on the zinnias and sunflowers potted in the...
View ArticleFlowerVeggie Bouquets for the Hula Hoop Bride
Tessa, a Workshare member who traded food for work for several seasons, came to us with a simple request for her wedding: please create Peter Rabbit-inspired arrangements featuring veggies with...
View ArticleRest in Peace Buddy
His death seemed likely often yet I was stunned when it came. There was the time he ate Avery’s pin cushion, a stuffed frog full of straight pins. We gave him a matter of hours before his gut was...
View ArticleNo Mo’ Flowers
Unfortunately, the rains that dumped 15″ on the nearby Bergstrom airport, also wiped out the fields here at the old Bergstrom homestead. Spring floods, summer drought, winter floods proved to be too...
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