Celebrating bio-dynamic culture and the bounty it produces

28 September 2010

Moonlight and Horses

This morning at 2:30 we added horse wrangling to our skill set after 6 of the neighbor’s Arabians got loose and were running around the farm!


The good news is that Bill raised horses with his family and looks pretty good leading them around in the moonlight!

21 September 2010

Produce Availability - September 19, 2010

SPECIAL! Tod-ona Oodham black –eye shelling peas - $3 / lb.

We used fresh with raw corn for salad with apples and Chaparral Gardens roasted red pepper - blackberry vinegar

Apples - $3.00/lb
New this week:

Jonathan

Jonagold

Liberty

Mutsu


Continuing:

Elstar

Roxbury Russet

Ashmead's Kernel

Smokehouse

Pink Pearl

Kidd’s Red Orange

Italian Prune Plums - $3.00/lb

Tomatillos
- $2.00/lb

Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes
- $3.00/pint

Hot Peppers - $8.00/lb

First pick! Joe's Long Red Cayenne

Hot Portugal

Shishito

Padron

Treccia – Italian ”cayenne”

Sweet Peppers - $3.00/lb (Lipsticks still trying to ripen)

Hungarian / Romanian yellows

Onions – $2.00/lb

Tropea de Tonda- legendary fresh market violet-red

Piatti- beautiful dark red

Baby torpedos - bunched like scallions

Potatoes – $2.00 / lb, large onaway - $1.00 / lb

Carola - waxy yellow

Onaway –creamy white

Rose Gold – best of Yukon types

All Blue – dry ,pan fry

Cranberry Red - sweet pink

Russian Banana Fingerlings – we know these!

Greens

Bloomsdale (the best!) Spinach - $6.00 / lb.

Babies in a Box – $26.00/box

Barbara’s Garden Greens – $6.00 / lb.

This week includes Beet greens, White & yellow chard,

Tuscan kale, Spigariello, Red dandelion, and Arugula




Herbs

Thyme

Chives

Rosemary

Sweet Basil

Lemon Basil


Thank you from,

Barbara & Bill Spencer

Market staff – Frank, Beth, Amanda, Janice, Lincoln & Ronald

Farm crew – Miguel, Manny, Edita, Rosa, Ismael Uba, Paula and Pedro

Our wonderful Intern from Cal Poly – Casey Jo Howard

13 September 2010

Produce Availability - September 12, 2010

Apples - $3.00/lb





New this week:

Elstar

Roxbury Russet

Ashmead's Kernel

Continuing:

Smokehouse

Melrose

Pink Pearl

Kidd’s Red Orange

Tomatillos - $2.00/lb

Sun Gold - $3.00/pint

Hot Peppers - $8.00/lb

First pick! Joe's Long Red Cayenne

Shishito

Padron

Treccia – Italian ”cayenne”

Sweet Peppers - $3.00/lb

Hungarian / Romanian yellows

Onions – $2.00/lb

Tropea de Tonda- legendary fresh market violet-red

Piatti- beautiful dark red

Baby torpedos - bunched like scallions

Potatoes – $2.00 / lb, large onaway - $1.00 / lb

Carola - waxy yellow

Onaway –creamy white

Rose Gold – best of Yukon types

All Blue – dry ,pan fry

Cranberry Red - sweet pink

Russian Banana Fingerlings – we know these!

Greens

Babies in a Box – $26.00/box

Barbara’s Garden Greens – $6.00 / lb.

This week includes Beet greens, White & yellow chard,

Tuscan kale, Spigariello, Red dandelion, and Arugula



Herbs

Thyme

Chives

Rosemary

Sweet Basil

Lemon Basil


Thank you from,

Barbara & Bill Spencer

Market staff – Frank, Beth, Amanda, Janice, Lincoln & Ronald

Farm crew – Miguel, Manny, Edita, Rosa, Ismael Uba, Paula and Pedro

Our wonderful Intern from Cal Poly – Casey Jo Howard

06 September 2010

Produce availability - Week of September 5, 2010

Apples - $3.00/lb

New this week:

Melrose

Smokehouse


Continuing:

Pink Pearl

Kidd’s Red Orange

New Jersey

Tomatillos - $2.00/lb

Summer Squash - $2.00/lb

Armenian Cucumbers - $2.00/lb

Hot Peppers - $8.00/lb

Shishito

Padron

Treccia – Italian ”cayenne”

Sweet Peppers - $3.00/lb

Hungarian / Romanian yellows

Onions – $2.00/lb

Tropea de Tonda- legendary fresh market violet-red

Piatti- beautiful dark red

Baby torpedos - bunched like scallions

Potatoes – $2.00 / lb, large onaway - $1.00 / lb

Carola - waxy yellow

Onaway –creamy white

Rose Gold – best of Yukon types

All Blue – dry ,pan fry

Cranberry Red - sweet pink

Russian Banana Fingerlings – we know these!

Greens

Babies in a Box – $26.00/box

Barbara’s Garden Greens – $6.00 / lb.

This week includes Beet greens, White & yellow chard,

Tuscan kale, Spigariello, Red dandelion, and Arugula



Herbs

Thyme

Chives

Rosemary

Sweet Basil

Lemon Basil


Thank you from,

Barbara & Bill Spencer

Market staff – Frank, Beth, Amanda, Janice, Lincoln & Ronald

Farm crew – Miguel, Manny, Edita, Rosa, Ismael Uba, Paula and Pedro

Our wonderful Intern from Cal Poly – Casey Jo Howard