On Monday, the conclusion of rolling up the irrigation system that had been in place all summer included our farm truck stuck in the mud. Yards of T-tape had been shoved a fuerzas into the back of the white truck. The main hose lines were rolled up neatly, labeled, and placed in the back corner [...]

Amidst the rain and the cold, we reaped another harvest that we hope you find tasty this week. We have an obvious color preference in the box, as you will soon discover. Okay I can’t wait to tell you, it’s purple! What gives purple vegetables their royal color? A plant compound called anthocyanin.  According to Vegetarian Spotlight [...]

Arriving at the farm today, we couldn’t help but be a little nervous about the frost that had settled during the night. The sun’s warmth had not yet melted the icy layer lacing the crops and the recently planted rye shooting up from the ground. The frost, along with the numbness in our fingers as we [...]

“Eating is an agricultural act.”  -Wendell Berry In a time when many of our children do not recognize that french fries come from potatoes, and when we do not understand the languages used by local farmworkers (in this area, Triqui, Mixteco, and Spanish are the most common), it is quite a radical agricultural act to participate in a CSA [...]

I truly did not plan for it. It just happened that way, as beautiful and tasty cooking mistakes often do. A whole meal tainted with green–the color of harmony and honesty!                     After a long day at the farm, I came home with arms full of my vegetable [...]