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 Garden, to $-subscribers, land-lenders, and Friends-of-the-Farm. Note that the square buckets are mounted on the back half of a “long-tail” custom bicycle that was created especially for Farmer K of Sunroot Gardens by a local welder.
Japanese mustard greens at Cabbit Garden. Seeds from Chabo of the (now closed) Natural Harvest CSA.
Green Wave type mustard from Ninja Garden (formerly Subcommandante Ramona, formerly Magic Wormhole). Seed from a farmers’ field in Carver, where we harvested wheat for the Staple Foods Project.
Chicory greens from Tolman Garden. Varieties from Wild Garden Seed in Philomath.
Japanese mustard greens from Cabbit Garden. Check out the fat stems, perfect for stir-frying.
Mustard greens, cross of Green Wave x Purple Osaka, from Tolman Garden. These seeds have been saved seasonally at different locations since 2005, where they were originally crossed at old Lemon Balm Garden. The original starts were gifts from Sunbow Farm in Corvallis.
Nettles from some country property we field-tripped to on Thursday, where we are talking about growing staple crops in 2010.
Austrian field pea shoots, from Henry Garden.
The cat who’s been hanging out at Tolman lately. Pictured here she is high on catnip and enjoying the sun.