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First Dick-n-Ball Produce of 2010 season !!

Pictured here on the luscious thigh of CSA subscriber Elaine Close is the first Dick-n-Ball produce of the 2010 Sunroot Gardens season: Radishes. The “dick” is a French Breakfast, and the “balls” are an unknown variety, round with the French Breakfast red/white combination.

Dick-n-Balls Produce is a trademark of Sunroot Gardens. That’s not [...]

26 March 2010 Produce share

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 [...]

Pea shoots!

These are from the cover crop growing at the Hampton acreage in Milwaukie, where the quinoa grew in 2008.  These are Austrian field peas, grown as a nitrogen-fixing cover, or for soup peas.  Super sweet and delicious!

These will be inlcuded in Monday’s CSA share, along with baby rainbow carrots, also super sweet.  Like candy, the [...]

Carrot “food porn” from 1/12/09 share

These photographs were taken by Robin, from one of the CSA subscriber households.
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First share of 2009 calendar year

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12/29 Winter Share pix

Here’s some pix from the Big Tolman Garden, and of the veggies in that week’s winter share.
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