On a lovely Cascadian spring day (that happened to be Earth Day and I didn’t even know until later), three of us hopped on our bicycles and did a quick turn through the Hawthorne District to hit up gardens for chicken food. We were hunting for and uprooting a particular variety of mustard greens [...]
Pictured here: Two of the sisters who live at Crabapple Cottage (a household that subscribes to both the produce CSA and the Staple Foods Project of Sunroot Gardens), posing with tools used to harvest horseradish for Passover, which is this Thursday. The three of us used a manure fork to remove the lemon [...]
Here’s the produce share that was offered on Friday, 26 March 2010, for the CSA $-subscribers, land-lenders, Friends-of-the-Farm, etc. Pretty good spread for being so close to “the Hunger Gap” of mid-Spring. Flavors include sweet (pea shoots), spicy (various mustards), bitter (chicory), and nutritive (nettles).
The spread, as offered at The Firepit [...]
Wonderful greetings from Farmer K:
On Saturday eve we held a Farmers’ Convocation. Calliope of Calliope’s Table, Tom of Mall56, Farmer K & Deva of Sunroot Gardens. Among the four of us we have 50 plots around Greater Southeast. Sunroot has 11 $-paying CSA subscribers, with room for 2 more shares (inquire with [...]
In a weedy corner of the Firepit Garden, amongst grass, Lemon Balm seedlings, and under a blackberry bramble, these turnips: they volunteered last Fall after turnips went to seed nearby. Still not woody, with a good sharp mustardy flavor. Amazing! This is why turnips are considered a survival crop — because [...]
After three days of bed prep, I seeded some special varieties of greens I got from Chabo & Lee of Natural Harvest Farm in Canby. It is quite an honor to be planting seeds from these folks. When it comes to farming, I have called Chabo “the master”. He has been the [...]
On Saturday, three of us went to a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Newberg. We had been contacted by someone there interested in learning how to save seeds for vegetables and other crops. She said they had a lot of land to plant on, so perhaps we could work out something where we [...]
* Gardens come and go in the Sunroot network. The plot in longest continuous relationship with me was begun just three years ago this spring, in April of 2006. This is the Cora Garden, and has been called “my favorite”. Mostly medicinals there, though we enjoyed sunchokes from it this winter. From 2007 through the [...]
Deva and I went to Big Tolman and the Firepit to remove coverings from greens now that the temperature has come back up. Many things look like they are going to survive just fine, if not be as productive to us in the near term. At Big Tolman, Deva had covered the greens beds with [...]