touch the earth farm blog

This weekend I finally planted the garlic, shallots and a new heirloom onion called an Egyptian walking onion, given to us by friends at Toboggan Hill. The weather has been so crazy warm that I didn’t want to get the bulbs in too early and risk early bloom or rotting in waterlogged soil.
I was able […]

mixed baby greens (tatsoi, raab, capitan, salad bowl, red butterhead, spinach, oakleaf, kale)
salad beets
radishes
baby head romaine
baby head salad bowl
head of Thai oakleaf
head of red salad bowl
broccoli teaser (good for a pasta primavera or in a salad)
green onions
chives
thyme
citrus thyme
tarragon
sorrel
dill

Mmmmm…delicious! For Thanksgiving this year we managed to pull an almost totally local, nearly zero mile meal complete from Touch the Earth Farm—if it weren’t for the lousy potato harvest this year, we would’ve done it. As it was, however, dinner was pretty magnificent. I hope yours was as wonderful.
I made two heritage turkeys this […]

vates kale/ bright lights swiss chard mix
mixed baby greens (spinach, tatsoi, raab, kale, red butterhead, capitan lettuce, winter density romaine)
baby romaine
baby black seeded simpson lettuce
bunte forrellenschuss lettuce
radishes
salad beets
ruby ring onion
green onions
sorrel
thyme
citrus thyme
dill
tarragon
rosemary

salad beets
radishes
swiss chard/ kale mix
red salad bowl lettuce
baby romaine
mixed baby greens (spinach, tatsoi, raab, salad bowl, speckled bibb, romaine)
green onion
chives
sorrel
thyme
citrus thyme
dill
parsley
rosemary

The New York Times published a wonderful article yesterday in the “Dining & Wine” section, titled “Preservation’s Progress,” clearly a play on the 18th century book title, Pilgrim’s Progress. I can assure you, however, that these turkeys are far more entertaining than the novel, and we love raising them here at Touch the Earth Farm. […]

salad beets
radishes
swiss chard
mixed baby greens
salad bowl lettuce
red salad bowl lettuce
romaine
green onions
chives
sorrel
thyme
citrus thyme
tarragon
parsley
dill