touch the earth farm blog

farm fresh eggs
mixed baby greens (spinach, kale, chard, capitan lettuce, red butterhead lettuce, arugula, turnip)
French salad mix microgreens
sorrel
thyme
citrus thyme

This week our local Simplicity circle met to begin our discussion of the Low Carbon Diet. While I’ve already implemented most of the ideas and more in the book, what I’m finding incredibly useful and wonderful is the networking and idea sharing of the group. We’ve been bouncing ideas off each other, sharing tips and […]

farm fresh eggs
salad turnip
turnip greens
thyme
citrus thyme
cilantro
sorrel

Ingredients:

turnip greens
salt pork
1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion
dash of sugar (optional)
salt and pepper to taste

Cook salt pork in a large pot or dutch oven over medium heat until crispy and brown. Add about 1 1/2 cups water, turnip greens, onion, salt, pepper and sugar and bring to a boil for about 1-2 minutes. Reduce heat, […]

This afternoon was a gorgeous taste of what’s to come, and just what my soul has been longing for while looking out over snow and ice layered pastures under gloomy gray skies.
Today, I was outside as much as possible, hanging laundry on the line, weeding, planting, day dreaming and garden planning. I got a third […]

Alas, living in the mid-Atlantic region as far south as we do makes for an interesting winter season. We’re up near 70° one day and down to 9° within the next week, not to mention the snow and ice and wind. These are difficult conditions for plants as well as people, and not surprisingly, these […]

farm fresh eggs
mixed baby kale and arugula
purple top salad turnip
seven top turnip greens
thyme
citrus thyme
cilantro
sprig of rosemary

This week, we’ve gotten a second round of radishes planted and the first round of hakurei turnips, a sweet, tasty white salad turnip. Both of these were planted in the high tunnel. Indoors, we’ve also started our first flat of broccoli and plan to start more seedlings over the next few weeks.
Good news is that […]

farm fresh eggs
mixed baby greens (beet, tatsoi, turnip, red butterhead lettuce, capitan lettuce, romaine, kale, swiss chard)
spicy salad mix microgreens
sorrel
thyme
citrus thyme
parsley

Well, Punxatawny Phil saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter! I don’t know about you folks, but I’m ready for the growing season, thank you very much. Enough already of the cold! Of course, last year we got most of our snowfall from mid-February on, so Phil just might be right.
We’ve had […]