tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53813825239420030462024-02-19T11:45:19.462-05:00Broadturn FarmJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279643684273986628noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-36635211293478232092015-07-14T12:03:00.000-04:002015-07-14T12:03:05.314-04:00How is it already Mid July...?<b>CSA Harvest</b><br />
Kohlrabi (these guys taste best when the skin is peeled... they are delicious on the grill)<br />
Lettuce<br />
Sugar Snap Peas<br />
Parsley<br />
Spinach<br />
Collards<br />
Green Onions<br />
Salad Turnips (these are best raw but do cook up nicely... super mild)<br />
Beets<br />
Cucumbers<br />
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July is one of my favorite times at the farm. The berry harvest is just about finished and the peony harvest has ended. Although those are 2 of my favorite crops, I feel like the energy of them is manic. By July, we have settled into a nice routine. The interns know their way around the farm. All the baby animals are their most adorable in July. This year, the kittens that Flora is fostering from the Brunswick Animal Shelter are stealing the show. All I want to do is take photos of flowers and kittens. It's like some sick inspirational poster taped to the drop ceiling at the gynecologist or dentist office... "Hang in There..." the July farm motto. I'm contemplating creating a whole line of them to hang around the farm this summer. The kittens, for those who might be interested, are all available for adoption, as is their lovely momma.<br />
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In July, the days never end, they just blur one into the other. We harvest, plant, weed, kill bugs, water, make deliveries, eat, fall in to bed and then do it all over again the next day. At night or over eggs at breakfast, John and I plot our winter excursions. We dream about what's next. We are the best workers when we are incentive based. There is some talk about participating in the USAID Farmer to Farmer program. This morning, we plotted Ethiopia on the map. In winter, our dreams are all about new varieties, new techniques, and better management of our own operation. Summer days are spent attempting to execute these well laid plans. Dreams in summer... its all about "Hang in there..." and kittens and flowers. No time for dreams, this is reality time, Croqs on the ground time.<br />
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In the meantime, we are loving the sugar snap peas and all the fresh greens. The flowers are at the top of their game. And, if you are lucky enough to get to trellis tomatoes, you've sampled the first of the ripe sun gold cherry tomatoes. They are nothing short of spectacular.<br />
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Blessing on the meal-<br />
StacyStacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-68752184049101409492015-07-07T12:22:00.002-04:002015-07-07T12:22:48.925-04:00CSA Members Only: Open Strawberry fieldsStrawberry season lasts a short crazy three weeks of good picking. (no more than 15 minutes per quart is what we tell our pickers) There are still berries in the field but we are done with picking... as a loyal CSA member, with a summer evening on your hands and pies to make, you are welcome to find the strawberry fields and pick as you like. One of our strawberry fields is across Hanson Road and the other one is behind the greenhouse. See the map below. You might want to print it out to find it. We are NOT a pick-your-own berry farm. You won't find straw between rows and loads of large plump berries. These are strictly extras. Help yourself.<br />
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Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-78425720012495352152015-07-06T21:14:00.000-04:002015-07-06T21:14:57.937-04:00ProvincialismWe picked up Flora at summer camp over the weekend and drove through the hills and dales of Maine, passing numerous 4th of July festivities. I have never been on a road trip during Independence Day, and it was charming and surprising to see how each little town or village had its own, unique parade without a shred of sponsorship besides the town itself. Tractors, firetrucks, old fashioned automobiles, and home-made floats on equipment trailers... all billowing with American flags.<br />
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Eventually we found our way to Georgetown, my family's community. There we participated in the Five Islands' blessing of the fishing fleet, and the parade of lobster boats. I guess I always thought Georgetown was special in its down-home celebration, but it's just one of thousands of similar expressions of communal personality.<br />
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Stella rarely leaves the farm, and has never been away over night. But we took her on this little trip, for Flora's pleasure, for the adventure of it, and for Stella's sake-- she hates being alone with the fireworks of the 4th. She was well behaved, but a little overwhelmed.<br />
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CSA Harvest:<br />
Lettuce<br />
Spinach<br />
Radishes<br />
Mustard Greens<br />
Arugula<br />
Cilantro<br />
Chard<br />
Tatsoi<br />
Cabbage<br />
Green Garlic<br />
Peas<br />
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<br />Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279643684273986628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-73405484034586811672015-06-23T11:49:00.001-04:002015-06-23T17:54:46.432-04:00Our roots in CSA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The season is starting off great at Broadturn Farm. Our early tulips, narcissus, and perennial flowers offered an early boost into the markets which we have been building in the world of local cut flowers. We also have twice the amount of strawberries planted so we've been filling orders for Rosemont markets in Portland, the Portland Food Co-op and a few other places. We have been focusing on these wholesale outlets since last year as our CSA vegetable operation has plateaued.<br />
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That said, CSA remains our primary focus on the farm. 14 years ago when Stacy and I started farming in Cumberland, it was clear to me that Community Supported Agriculture was the way forward; the business model with no down-side. Good for the farmer: An assured market, up-front capital, and permission to grow a wide variety without worrying about "loss-leaders." Good for the consumer: A discounted product of the freshest kind, a connection with a farm, and an encouragement to eat that wide variety of healthy produce. It also appeared fundamentally good for the environment since stabile, non-exploitative markets nearly always lead to positive ecological choices, and customers were supporting our choices to grow organic produce.<br />
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We still stand by the central tenants of the CSA model, but all things evolve and we have dealt with problems with many facets of this kind of farming. As we have matured we have gotten a sense for other opportunities beyond CSA, just as some of our customers themselves move beyond the model and one way or other become more tied into the local food movement in ways apart from being a CSA member. But there is still no better way to get an infusion of the freshest and diverse produce into your kitchen than CSA. And this week is flush with Greens!<br />
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Here is this week's harvest:<br />
Lettuce<br />
Mustard greens<br />
Kale<br />
Spinach<br />
Garlic Scapes<br />
Strawberries<br />
Cilantro<br />
Arugula<br />
Spring Turnips<br />
Radishes -- here is, in our opinion, the best thing to do with radishes: thinly sliced and soaked in Ume plum vinegar (or some other fruity vinegar). This is technically a "refrigerator pickle" and it works great with spring radishes. (this jar is probably four or five bunches of radishes, so you can use as smaller container.)<br />
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This is the week that we are turning over fields to begin a summer-fallow period. This allows us to diminish the weeds in our fields while still maintaining a good amount of organic matter in the soil. We have been growing good cover crops of rye and vetch all winter, and now we mow it, chisel plow it, and work the cover into the soil. <br />
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After a few weeks it will look like the picture below, ready to be planted to another cover cropping. Tilling is damaging, and cover cropping is restorative, and after 8 years of doing this at Broadturn Farm, we have seen great improvements in the quality of the soil.<br />
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This picture below is of a freshly plowed field from sod. Its very exciting to turn over new ground. It reminds me of our first years farming. Inexperienced as we were, there was so much potential after making that first step forward into farming. An unwritten, blank slate; this one up along the road in our Fogg field, will be filled in with an expansion of rhubarb in the coming years. Thanks to John Snell for selling us that sweet moldboard plow!<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279643684273986628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-69663122961548775492015-06-16T11:59:00.001-04:002015-06-16T12:00:20.732-04:00CSA week 2<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RKwN_Ga_h38/VYBDG3tzPsI/AAAAAAAAJJw/3eHNo5xWmHQ/s1600/DSC02646.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RKwN_Ga_h38/VYBDG3tzPsI/AAAAAAAAJJw/3eHNo5xWmHQ/s640/DSC02646.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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Strawberries<br />
Broccoli<br />
Spinach<br />
Beet greens<br />
Rhubarb<br />
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Kale<br />
Red Radishes<br />
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The days are zipping by and we are wild and manic with harvesting and planting and weeding. Every weekend this time of the year has us traveling all over the place dropping off wedding flowers. Each minute seems accounted for. It's a pretty wild ride, farming in June in Maine. We are trying to remember what varieties of tulips we loved last month when we were harvesting them so we can get our order in now for fall planting. 6000 tulips gave us a lot to think about! And then there were the anemone and frittalaria and the narcissus and the tree peony! Spring has been abundant<br />
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As we approach the summer solstice, with a berry stained hands and our arms loaded with peonies, it all feels right.<br />
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Our crew this year is amazing. There are old faces and new faces and everyone's hands seem to be able to move while they talk (important criteria for farm work). I love to hear their dreams, watch them learn new skills and overhear last year's intern who is now a returning employee skill share with a new intern. Knowing they are learning, gaining skills, eating well and being present in the work and in this moment of their lives makes personnel management ever so pleasant.<br />
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And, we say it every year, but the truth of the matter is they make this place what it is. Without them, John and I would be, well.... pretty lonely and working really hard to keep up.<br />
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There are some introductions to be made. For those of you who are planning to visit, there are 2 adorable baby goats. They are still without names. They are 3 and 5 weeks old. They are currently living in the animal barn. This season's pigs have arrived as well. They are in the tree line in the field across Hanson Rd from the farmstead. They love company so make sure you go up and say hi.<br />
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And, a little harder to visit but undeniable the cutest, there is a batch of kittens in the farmhouse. Flora is fostering a momma cat and her 3 babies in the bottom drawer of her dresser for the Brunswick Animal Shelter. She has a lifelong (all 8 years of it) dream to run a cat shelter cafe where you could come in and have tea and pet cats. At 8 weeks of age, the kitties will be ready to be adopted. They are heavily handled by our resident cat whiperer so I do expect some well socialized felines to enter society after they leave here. Kittens anyone? Or a lovely momma cat who is a baby momma herself? If you're interested, you'll need to adopt them through the Brunswick Animal Shelter.<br />
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<br />Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-62625710083747473142015-06-08T23:41:00.001-04:002015-06-09T10:30:18.333-04:00Week 1: Here We GoThis week is our first CSA distribution of the season. As with other years, things are just getting started with the first harvest. The winter held on for longer than usual and we thought we would be late on most early crops. Then we had a week of unseasonably hot temperatures and we lost a few crops to the heat: most of our first broccoli and the pac choi. The chives, rhubarb and sorrel, all perennial crops, have committed themselves to flowers, but we will still harvest what we can. On the flower side of the farm, we had a great tulip and narcissus harvest and are eagerly awaiting the peonies by the end of the week. Strawberries are not far away after that.<br />
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And on and on and on. Planting and harvesting so many crops and some many successions feels like a whirlwind which sneaks up behind you and before we know it, the abundance in the field is overflowing.<br />
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We have a great crew this spring with plenty of familiar faces from years past. We continue to try some new tactics while staying true to the goals of soil building and natural pest management.<br />
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You might be wondering who writes these words, and those of you who know us well and who have been with us for years mill be able to hear John's voice behind this, our first, CSA newsletter. Where is Stacy? Well, Stacy has gone off a deep end of sorts. You see, Stacy does most of our marketing around here, so unfortunately she gets pretty involved in the social media side of things: posting to Facebook, post pictures of flowers and produce on Instagram, not to mention the constant phone calls and emails that go though her smart phone. Talk about a whirlwind. By mid-Spring she is like a spinning dervish or a samurai doing all one has to do to keep the ship afloat. It was nearly too late before we noticed her crazed dependency on the chatter of social media, and we pulled her phone out of her hands. Responding as quickly as possible, we deleted Instagram and Facebook from her phone, signed her out of her Amazon Prime account, delegated Pinterest to Laura, and allowed the Spotify playlist to play out... Silence.<br />
Yesterday morning Flora came downstairs, and Stacy looked at her with fresh eyes. "You smell like summer" she said to her daughter. Flora took a whiff of Stacy and said, "You smell like dirt... and coffee." As it should be.<br />
And, so though this newsletter is a little dry and not as wild as one of Stacy's posts, I'll stay at the helm until we can get Stacy back to normal.<br />
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But then, its March. The snow begins its slow recession, any falling snow doesn't amount to much. The dooryard and all the pathways are 50 shades of brown frost and mud, all of it frozen. We fire up the greenhouse. The reality that we are going to do this again, this farming thing, another season of it, another adventure in agrarian wonder, another turn of the sun... it sets in, and we embrace it. We're antsy. The house seems small and claustrophobic. We need to get out and move our creaky bodies. And, maybe, just maybe, the frost free hydrant in the cow barn that is frozen solid will finally give way, letting us ease up on hauling water in 5 gallon buckets for the cows each day we milk.</div>
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The greenhouse is busting at the seams but the nights are still in the single digits. Even some of the days are barely suitable for the green babes. Keeping a propagation house going in a frigid spring is an exercise in creativity and Yankee ingenuity, all involving layers of plastic and foam insulation. We had intended, in the fall, to move another small hoop house over near to our current propagation house to create a cold frame. But, time escaped us and its still on the to-do list. Of course, the 2 feet of snow remaining (not to mention the frozen ground) make deconstruction and reconstruction a puzzle. So, we shift and crowd and light fires for warmth and hope for the best out there. There's a healthy amount of knocking on wood this time of the year, hoping we don't jinx the season. Farmers are a superstitious lot (at least these 2).<br />
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<li>50 Freedom Ranger broiler chickens. We tried them for the first time this past year and they are so much cuter than the big white Cornish Cross. I guess that makes them more "duel purpose" for you fanciers out there. But the 2nd purpose is not eggs, its more like farm-camp cuddle-able.</li>
<li>15 Khaki Campbell ducks-- eggs, cuddle-able, and comic relief. Triple purpose. </li>
<li>6 pigs as usual.</li>
<li>Acidanthera and Martagon lily bulbs. I have a hard time ceasing the flower shopping when the snow is still so deep.</li>
<li>A case of work gloves, small and large.</li>
<li>Sun hemp and Fenugreek cover crop seeds... John is convinced fenugreek is our new thing. A wonder-herb.</li>
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I would be a bad saleswoman if I didn't mention all the ways you can be involved in the farm. Usually in late February I have a crisis moment, feeling withered about hustling business and checking the CSA sign-ups like a hawk. The CSA and education at the farm are the heart and soul of what we do. It is the pulse of all that happen here....growing community through food and farming and flowers. </div>
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We still have <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/produce-csa/" target="_blank">Produce</a> and <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/flower-csa/" target="_blank">Flower</a> CSA shares available. We have <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/farmstand/" target="_blank">Credit CSA shares</a> available for credit in our farm stand.</div>
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Sign up is open for <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/pre-school/" target="_blank">Spring Preschool Discoveries</a>, <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/april-vacation-camp/" target="_blank">April Vacation Camp</a> and <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/summer-camp/" target="_blank">Summer Camp</a>.</div>
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There are a few open dates left for <a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/barn-and-farm-rental/" target="_blank">hosting weddings</a> at the farm this summer.</div>
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Finally, mark your calendar for our annual Open House. Saturday, May 9th 1-4. We'll have farm tours, a Maypole, live music from the Gawler Family and Bennet and Edith and hopefully lots of green grass. I know you'll be as ready as I am to get out of the house.</div>
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We are preparing in earnest for 2015. Seeds have arrived and are all organized on their shelves. Google spreadsheets are thick with details of when, where and how. We are rested and vacationed and having a great time meeting prospective couples, talking to new camp families and thinking about the best combinations of vegetables to harvest for the<a href="http://www.broadturnfarm.com/produce-csa/" target="_blank"> CSA</a> each week. Cucumbers and dill. Rosemary, garlic and fingerling potatoes. The grilling medley: summer squash, eggplant and peppers. That end game dream is where we start in the planning. What do we want and when, is that possible in our climate and can we pull it off.... those are the first questions. From there, we decide on which field to plant each crop, what amendments are needed for everything, how best to plant things to make cultivation, irrigation and harvest simple and straightforward. It's a logic puzzle every year. It gets a little easier but then we muck it up by adding something new. Lilies anyone? How about 100 ft of clematis? Did you say you could use some okra? 12 acres? Do we need to open up another one?<br />
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This week's harvest list:<br />
red cabbage<br />
fennel<br />
radishes<br />
broccoli raab<br />
cauliflower<br />
broccoli<br />
kale<br />
spinach<br />
dill<br />
leeks<br />
potatoes<br />
parsley<br />
sage<br />
a choice of 4 different squash: red kuri, baby blue hubbard, buttercup, butternut, acorn, delicata, pie pumpkins<br />
celery<br />
celeriac<br />
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Alas,we come to our final week of the produce CSA. Some of us spent the week in Delaware at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG) conference. Yes ma'am.... a whole week of flower friends from across the country geeking out on plants and design and varieties. It culminated in a box of wine and a late night gathering in a hotel lobby, as all conferences should. Our hearts are full of love for flowers and flower folks and our heads are bursting with new ideas and strategies for growing the best cut flowers we can.<br />
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More than anything, when you spend time with people whose days are spent doing the same work you do, your life choices and your daily routines are normalized. As farmers, we get into our little routines on our farms and professional development really helps to move the industry forward.<br />
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Here's what you should know about cut flowers:<br />
Cut flowers are a $7.5 billion dollar industry in the US<br />
82% of all cut flowers are imported<br />
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Here's what that means:<br />
As cut flower growers, we have some opportunity here! We can seriously work together to grow market share. Even if we increased domestic flower sales by 20%, that could translate into substantial gains for farmers in our country.<br />
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Here's what has to happen:<br />
We need consumers to ask for local flowers at the grocery store and from florists.<br />
We need to embrace the production of cut flowers as a potential economic driver for the agricultural sector in every town in the states.<br />
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It's easy to get pretty fired up when you spend a week with a bunch of flower farmers.<br />
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In the next few weeks, we'll get all the fall bulbs planted, including garlic, tulips, narcissus and fritillaria. We have 300 more peonies going in and a whole batch of itoh and tree peonies (I know you're as excited as I am about those!) We'll spend a lot of time cleaning up, re-organizing, and preparing for cold times to come. Then, this time next month....vacation. We are simultaneously thrilled and totally freaked out about how much has to happen between now and then.<br />
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Whenever you show up anywhere in the fall (or summer or spring, really) as a farmer, the first questions folks ask farmers is "how was your season?". And, we can honestly say, great. With the exception of the late blight in the tomatoes and some tarnished plant bugs in the dahlias, we had a bang up season. The weather was cooperative. The crew was magnificent. And the support for farm fresh goodness is as strong as ever. Our customers are the life of this thing we do. And you guys rocked it this year. You're like, the best.<br />
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(This is what our kitchen looks like on the eve of a freeze....everything tasty comes in)<br />
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Thanks for a great season, our 13th as farmers!<br />
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Blessings on the meal-<br />
Stacy<br />
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Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-54904686979752763182014-10-17T06:33:00.001-04:002014-11-17T18:58:31.914-05:00What success looks likeIf you are new to the CSA, perhaps you would like some background on our squash history. You might notice the bulk bins in the barn, full of squash... umm, like 15... at least. Well, a mere three years ago we had a meager crop of exactly one distribution- two squashes per person for the whole fall, (and they were "Carnival" squashes, more appropriate for decoration than eating.) Last year was a bit better, but I told everyone to eat their squashes soon after pick-up since bugs had bitten-- or sucked actually; punctured with their sucking proboscises... proboscii... anyway, their storage ability had been compromised. Another crop failure.<br />
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This year, with focus and strategy, (and a proper Maine winter behind us) we had crop success. Those ten beds of squash, a bit over half an acre exploded with way more squash than we need. And it all should keep quite well tucked in your coat closet, under your bed, or in the attic (not the root cellar mind you... it likes steady 50 degrees and dry.) Of course we always aim high with production, so that we have extra to sell, and I am NOT COMPLAINING!... but wouldn't it be nice to have a bumper crop of berries instead? Just a little easier on the back...<br />
So, we are loading you up with squash. Please do not feel compelled to take as much as the chalk board tells you to take. Take only what you think you can use; that is the CSA member ethic. And don't think about food going to waste. What we can not sell for a decent price (AKA we don't "dump" product on the market) we feed to our animals= not wasted; we donate as much as possible to food pantries= not wasted; we compost the rest which feeds the soil=not wasted.<br />
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The Harvest:<br />
arugula<br />
pac choi<br />
lettuce<br />
broccoli<br />
cauliflower<br />
brussels sprouts<br />
beets<br />
rosemary<br />
potatoes<br />
garlic<br />
onion<br />
AND THOSE SQUASHES!<br />
be sure to get a buttercup whose flesh is very dry and flakey (which is good) and which we have failed extra hard in past years!<br />
--John<br />
<br />Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-85530743306702064002014-10-07T15:20:00.001-04:002014-10-08T08:17:42.800-04:00Re-wilding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I often think that history is made up of one bad decision after another, with a few random mistakes thrown in, sending humanity down deeply uncertain pathways. The transition from gathering and hunting to a culture of farming was devastating in its consequences, but to call it a choice is probably some kind of reification of a drawn out process. I imagine our ancestors as individuals gathering seeds this time of the year, fully aware of a plant's cycles, and just beginning to identify promising landscapes where gathering begins to feel like a harvest. One organizes a community around a few specific plants, and the stability of a food source begins to ensure a more successful birth rate...<br />
Sounds great, but in retrospect...<br />
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Here I am 12000 years later, no longer living the agricultural revolution; in fact, that was like, four or five revolutions ago! These weeds that fill our fields, the consequences of our farming, glare at me with dark mirth and bemusement.<br />
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Rewilding has been on my mind this fall season. Not that we can ever "go back," but more of a letting go, an undoing... entropy. It is too cold to germinate any more cover crops, and so I let the weeds sprout and do the important job of covering the soil as we move into the shoulder season. Any fertilizer to keep kale and arugula green would be a waste; there is so much microbiological momentum in the soil, that any young crops will cruise along until the freeze comes. The millions of seeds-- from weeds and from the many flower crops gone by, are layered on the surface of the soil, and I can only hope that there are enough worms, beetles, birds, and mice to eat them. (Those among us who still gather.)<br />
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Its hunting season also that brings my thoughts to the re-wilding. Dudes with big shiny trucks, wearing crisp new camouflage gear. They grumble about not being allowed to drive right up to their favorite high-tech tree-stand and camera set-up. I thought farming was conflicted with paradox; I feel for these hunters who follow the urge to connect with nature via Cabella's and LL Bean. Such is our human nature: drawn towards authentic experience but employing mediation and cleverness as a means.<br />
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Just as with many concepts that pull our interest, rewilding is just another decision. Once we investigate it, it seems clear that part of rewilding implies building our skill set, or actively stewarding natural spaces through conservation efforts. We begin to drift slowly away from an anarchist's rewilding towards a clever progressional plan.<br />
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These days rewilding implies using genetic technology and geo-scaping to bring back the wild auroch and the wooly mammoth. But fall, for me at least, is a tired time of letting things go. Having actively cultivated our space all summer, I'll happily pass through the fields and into the woods, to sit and rewild my brain for a few minutes.<br />
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The farm is still a bustle of activity and the to-do list is a mile long. In the fall, we always start adding back on the projects that got dropped off the list in the spring when planting, weeding and harvesting took over. But then, there are still those regular farm work activities. We have garlic and tulips to plant, we have dahlias and carrots to harvest. We have wedding flower arrangements to make. The new stuff, the fun stuff, the big picture stuff is what's fueling the momentum. Talk of renovations, new equipment, vacation....a girl's weekend (Did you get that?....a girl's weekend?... as in I'm going away for the weekend with my girlfriends!!!) are the stuff of sanity, release, spark.<br />
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These fall days help us take stock of it all, offer a brief moment to reflect a bit on the successes and failures of the season. There are always so many of both. </div>
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For me, the best part of this season has been our outstanding crew: The flower ladies who work endlessly on the weekends to make things a little more beautiful. The camp crew who greet every family to the farm with openness and warm heart. Our workshare folks who show up each week for 4 hours to harvest, wash and pack produce for the CSA. The field crew who perform a myriad of odd jobs all day, everyday. You all make this place sail smoothly and we love you all for it. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Every year as we approach the end of September and the frost warnings start sounding about on the news, we wonder when it will appear for us. It's always a relief, a sign that things are slowing, a gift of a little moment longer at the kitchen table with coffee and the New York Times. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">But, it doesn't come without some remorse. We are usually dancing around trying to get a few things harvested before the frost and I inevitably have a wedding or event I want some more flowers for and never know exactly if they'll make it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">But, it comes and then the following morning we wake up to crystals covering the plants. The cows greet us in the barn with warm clouds of breath and the big fluffy dog shows a renewed energy, preferring the chilly mornings to the hot days of July. Visitors to the farm in the summer always comment on how mellow the dog is. It's really that she's hot and irritated. Her pep and verve most certainly return when the mornings are regularly in the 40's.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This is the last week for our Flower CSA bouquets. I <span style="background-color: white;">just want to thank you again from the bottom of my heart for you support of locally grown flowers. We have so enjoyed cutting and making bouquets for you each week and most especially we have loved your smiles as you grab your flowers from the bucket. I hope the memory of color and beauty stays in your heart through the winter. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">We have one more big week of cutting to do next week and are ever anxious about the appearance of the frost.... fingers crossed that it holds off until at least Wednesday. We have 3 weddings and a big party the weekend of September 26th! (this is the sort of thing that keeps a flower farmer up at night)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">As of Monday, September, 29th, (in the event we still have not had a frost) I invite you all to bring your clippers and come by to glean the remaining flowers from the field. Enjoy armloads of gomphrena that will dry for you and make for lovely Christmas tree garland. And make one last big dahlia bouquet to usher you into October. I guarantee that once you get your self out into that field with your clippers and all those flowers, the love for the bloom will most definitely be solidified.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">...A gift to our flower loving friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">And....on to the produce, which I forgot all about mentioning last week....thinking about the flowers too much! My apologies.</span><br />
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And then there's pork.... Living over in the tree line across Hanson Road from the farmstead are 5 lovely swine. There were 6 but we shared him with 200 of our guests at the 3rd Annual Fresh From the Farm Dinner, a Scarborough Land Trust fundraiser. So, of the remaining 5, we'll keep one for our family, leaving 4 to sell. We offer them by the half side. $4/pound based on the hanging weight. We cover the butcher fees. The pigs are butchered to the standard cuts...chops, hams, roasts, bacon, etc and packaged, frozen, in portions for 4. I am expecting the half sides to weigh in around ~150-175 pounds. They may be larger but definitely not smaller. These guys always go fast so if you are interested, its first come first served. They head to the butcher October 25th and the unsmoked meat will be available to pick up at the farm that week. the smoked meat takes another few weeks.<br />
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Blessings on the meal-<br />
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The whole goal was to spread the word about local flowers, increase awareness about the importance of considering the chain of events that occur when you purchase flowers, whether its locally or from a large retailer that imports flowers from abroad. We had hoped to use the forum of public art as a way to preach our message. What happened was much more fun than that! We made people smile, we surprised them with the gift of flowers, we talked with strangers and saw old friends, and all over the remarkable joy of flowers in hands.<br />
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Who knows if it worked.... But, what I do know is that my family and our crew had more fun than you can ever imagine giving flowers away to hundreds of folks who walked past SPACE Gallery on Friday.<br />
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When people would walk up they would say they had been seeing others with flowers all over the streets and were wondering where they came from. And they all would remark on the smell of the flowers as they approached our little display. It was heartwarming in the best kind of way. Worth the effort, for sure.<br />
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If you have time early this week, take a stroll past SPACE, at 538 Congress ST. The show will come down in a few days when the flowers are toast.<br />
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We're already jazzed up and scheming about our next project. Flowers: I can't think of anything I'd rather be working with.<br />
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Photo Credits: <a href="http://www.soulemama.com/" target="_blank">Amanda Soule</a> Because of course I brought my camera with a dead battery. Thanks friend for sharing :)<br />
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<br />Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-62864176453171642722014-09-04T18:20:00.003-04:002014-09-04T18:20:32.782-04:00Offering Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-87540701513173128962014-09-02T10:50:00.001-04:002014-09-02T10:50:33.008-04:00Well Hello There SeptemberOne of our CSA members share this with us and we were over the moon about this campaign and its success.<br />
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So, we've decided to offer you all some inglorious vegetables this week. We have the last flush of cucumbers that taste delicious but are a little less than gorgeous. In addition, the red potatoes have not fared well and have some blemishes. They are both still edible and totally delicious. They will both be making an appearance this week on the extras table in the share room. They are both offered as supplements to the regular share.<br />
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In addition, its probably helpful for you all to know that when we have leftover produce, if it is glorious, we offer it for sale in our farmstand or to our wholesale customers. Every Monday, the Biddeford Food Pantry comes by to pick up whatever we were unable to sell either because of its inglorious nature or just an overabundance. The final resting place for produce that is neither appropriate for the CSA, sellable or donatable is our well fed pigs. Rest assured, we do our best to make sure nothing gets wasted here.<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">carrots</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">onion</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">garlic</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">ground cherry</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">pepper</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">dill</span></li>
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Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-65266191310875575972014-08-25T10:12:00.001-04:002014-08-25T10:13:54.619-04:00September is Trending<span id="docs-internal-guid-fa30f540-0d4e-6f04-2ec7-cf4c72acd635"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">This will probably be the final week of tomatoes. The plants are dead and the fruit is still there and ripening but will not be able to survive on the dead vines for much longer. Late Blight is such a bummer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The good news is that even though tomatillos are in the same family as tomatoes, they are not as susceptible to the blight. So, this week, get your tortilla chips ready for a batch of salsa verde. My favorite way to prepare it is to remove the paper from the tomatillos and place them in a baking dish. I roast them with a little garlic and olive oil on high heat in the oven until they are soft. Then, I place the whole lot into the food processor with some onion, hot pepper, lime juice, salt and cilantro. I usually add a little more garlic so the mosquitoes will leave me alone. Give it a whiz and then add more of whatever you think it needs. Chill and eat with chips. Its so yummy! It freezes well and goes fast, at least in our salsa loving house. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The last week of summer vacation is upon us. Everyone's back to school next week and we have the last flush of summer company visiting this week.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are wildly busy tending to fall plantings and crazy harvests. It feels manic but productive and is the stuff farming is made of: a truckload of onions coming in, hearty seed garlic tucked aside to be planted out in October, bucketloads of dahlias is all the best colors. When your head and heart are in this deep, you notice the subtle changes because they speak to what's coming.....leaves starting to change on the maples, a flock of geese heading south over the lighthouse on Saturday, the supply list arriving from the teacher for next week's inevitable first day. Thank heaven for Amazon....I have no time to fulfill that order sheet from the teacher when stores are open....I like to shop at 5:30AM from my bed on my iphone (that's a major confession). </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">cucumbers</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">arugula</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">walla walla onions</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">carrots</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">melons</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">potatoes</span></li>
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And, she did wonder whether a "shelfie" was a thing and, after a short Google image search, we learned it was. Thought you might like to know.</div>
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The radicchio is a new variety for us. It is long and green, with a yellowish tint. I recommend slicing thinly like cabbage, tossing with a nice olive oil some lemon juice and finishing it off with some reggiano. It was a nice side to our potato leek soup. The flavor is more mild and less bitter than the purple variety. I hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!</div>
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Tomato update: All of the field tomatoes have been taken by the blight. The tomatoes in the hoop houses are still holding on. They are showing some signs of going down but we think we'll get a bit more out of them. We are very cautious of jinxing ourselves, so we aren't putting it on the list, as if to suggest our uncertainty to Mother Nature so she know we aren't taking anything for granted.However, we are planning to harvest what's there and share with you. Consider the tomatoes a footnote.</div>
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Mid Season check-in: Tell us how things are going from your end. Is there something we can improve on (besides being more prompt about sending out the harvest list)? We want to make the experience of being a CSA member as rewarding as possible for our customers so if something is not working for you, please let us know. </div>
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Culinary Herb Bed: So....our culinary herb bed is finally ready for your clippers! Along the path to the barn, there is a bed of culinary herb including tarragon, oregano, marjoram, thyme, lemon verbena, rosemary, sage and an occasional edible flower (calendula, borage, nasturtium). Please help yourself to herbs when you pick up your share. And, if you are close enough to the farm, stop by anytime for a little bit of fresh herb to spruce up whatever you're concocting in the kitchen.</div>
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</span>Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-14932224615133449432014-08-05T09:50:00.002-04:002014-08-05T09:50:41.086-04:00Cultivating Optimism<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tT4Wpz5gAh8/U-DUBHCnCLI/AAAAAAAAHAs/zz4g6SyDyWM/s1600/DSC04223.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tT4Wpz5gAh8/U-DUBHCnCLI/AAAAAAAAHAs/zz4g6SyDyWM/s1600/DSC04223.JPG" height="426" width="640" /></a><br />
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This week's harvest:<br />
The first (but hopefully not last, F#$%* Late Blight!) taste of tomato<br />
Lettuce<br />
Beans<br />
Chard<br />
Summer Squash<br />
Zucchini<br />
Patty Pan Squash<br />
Cucumbers<br />
Garlic<br />
Kohlrabi<br />
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Eggplant<br />
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Sometimes we hit this place in the summer and on a warm evening, as the sun sets, I'm outside wandering around with a purpose I can't remember and I'm overwhelmed by a sense of awe. The fields, in all their glory, every plant reaching, flowering, trying to produce a flower, to breed and then to make seed. Its all I can do to hold it in, remember what I walked outside for, milking time...to check the CSA share room, to check the mail for the first time in a few days.<br />
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The summer farm is full of breeding. If you miss a clutch of eggs, you get 8 new chicks.<br />
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For the first stretch of years we were farming, every morning John would tell me of some dream he had where the livestock were out of their respective pens, interbreeding, rampantly multiplying like a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dahlov-Ipcars-Farmyard-Numbers-Ipcar/dp/1939017017" target="_blank">Dahlov Ipcar children's book using farms as a medium for counting. </a> Now he tells me of different dreams, more comfortable with growth and change and seasonal cycles.<br />
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Our weeks are full of harvesting and planting and weeding and talking with customers and managing our largest crew ever.... we just did a payroll for 17 people. Most of our camp weeks are fully enrolled, (there's room in the last week).<br />
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And our weekends send us to far flung places to deliver wedding flowers and then back home to celebrate a union here at the farm. The ducks are growing.<br />
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And the long barn smells like garlic heaven as our garlic crop dries.<br />
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I'm eager for a good book to read but have no time to go pick one out. Our children wonder if there is anything but cucumbers to snack on and I head to the store for cereal and chocolate and cheddar. We're fueled by chocolate milk snacks at 10AM and 4PM. The laundry stays on the line through too many thunderstorms and then lives in piles on the floors of our bedrooms. The guest room is in constant rotation with a changing cast of characters coming by to visit. But, we know this ride, we know there is balance annually, just not week to week. This summer mania comes to an end and then we miss it. We miss our friends and family visiting. We miss the enthusiastic summer campers, the CSA customers sharing their vegetable exploits in their kitchens and the happy couple embracing after they've shared the farm they've come to love with their family and friends.<br />
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Last week, one of our wedding couples from a few years ago came by with their beautiful new baby and I knew, in that moment, that in our own small way, we're part of something big. And those sweet moments, tucked in between the loss of a tomato crop to<a href="http://broadturnfarm.blogspot.com/2014/07/just-your-average-girl.html" target="_blank"> Late Blight</a> and an unmentionable amount of potential revenue as a result, keep us afloat. And, the knowledge that I could just run out to the grocery store for tomato sauce. Life is not dependent on our tomato crop, the farm revenue is diverse for a reason. Hopefully we can sell more flowers and distribute a few more bushels of cabbage. (Our CSA members may have noticed it's a good cabbage year). Keeping it all in perspective is a job John and I take turns with. We talk each other off the cliff each day, helping the other find the joy in the larger picture, enabling us to face those 17 employees with a smile and a sense of optimism.<br />
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This Week's CSA Harvest:<br />
Cabbage<br />
Carrots<br />
Garlic<br />
Green Onions<br />
Green Beans<br />
Potatoes<br />
Peppers<br />
Summer Squash, Zucchini, Patty Pan<br />
Cucumbers<br />
Cilantro<br />
Basil<br />
Beets<br />
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Also this week, our mid-summer<b> Annual Pack-a-Picnic and Dance Party</b> with the Strangely Possibles.Join us for a fun, outdoor evening at the farm, <b>Thursday, July 31</b>. Bring a picnic, watch the sun set and dance with us in the barn to the Strangely Possibles. The music starts at 7:30 but we'll be out there enjoying the evening from 6:00 on. Bring the family, bring your friends.<br />
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So, about that cabbage.... I know you probably feel inundated with it but, when there's bounty, we do like to share. I acquired a mandolin a few years ago and I thinly slice lots of cabbage on the mandolin for use in salads, sandwiches and roll-ups. I use this thinly sliced cabbage in place of salad greens. I love sauerkraut and we make it regularly in the summer. And, if you're slow to warm up to cabbage, it lasts a long time in the refrigerator so you can nibble at it for week to come. It is a great storage crop.<br />
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Looking forward to dancing with all of you in the barn on Thursday!<br />
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Blessings on the meal-<br />
Stacy<br />
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Zucchini/Summer Squash/Patty Pan Squash<br />
Kale<br />
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Dill<br />
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Cucumbers<br />
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I really like thinking about marketing and when campaign season rolls around, I'm always intrigued by how boring political campaigns are. There's no humility, no self-effacement. If I ever run for office, I'd be running the Just-Your-Average-Girl Campaign. It would go something like this:<br />
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I'm often late (as are all the Brenners, we suffer from what my friend Jones calls "time optimism")<br />
I'm a B student<br />
There are no Magna, Summas or Cumma behind my degree<br />
I sometimes forget to brush my teeth<br />
Not all my jokes are funny<br />
I've bounced a few checks, forgetting to transfer funds into checking<br />
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When I presented this idea to my family, they assured me I would be hard pressed to find campaign funders.<br />
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Selling yourself, your stuff, your ideas....what a challenge. And then, you get stuck in a thankless job where only half the town likes you.<br />
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I much prefer growing flowers and vegetables, feeding people, making things a little more beautiful. But, even then, we're just your average farmers.<br />
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And, these average farmers are worried our potatoes and tomatoes are about to go down to Late Blight. <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/07/10/late-blight-symptoms-found-on-some-maine-potatoes/" target="_blank">This article</a> from 2 weeks ago started the ball rolling in our direction. And now, we are squarely seeing signs in our fields. The best conditions for Late Blight are synonymous with weather that makes my hair curlier: humidity, misty rain, hazy sun and passing showers.<br />
Though this summer weather is not so wet, this disease was apparently introduced by infected seed potatoes. Late Blight is a fungus that mostly affects leaves and most years we get it... in September. (Don't worry about eating the potatoes or tomatoes, what we can harvest in spite of the Blight, is safe for human consumption.)<br />
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The Just-Your-Average-Farmer campaign looks something like this:<br />
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Sometimes we get Late Blight<br />
Sometimes we lose a crop to weeds<br />
Sometimes we let something get root bound in the greenhouse<br />
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It might just be the 12-14 hour days, every day, but we feel pretty average in July. A hearty harvest of cucumbers or larkspur can raise our spirits something fierce. But, it takes 12 months to correct a mistake in the field, it takes 12 months to try a new tactic. It takes 12 years to realize each year you'll be assaulted by some new bug, some old pest, some fresh disease. We brainstorm how we'll do it differently next year and then we have to wait to give our ideas a try. Long suffering patience, for this average girl-farmer.<br />
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But, don't despair. With 120 vegetable varieties and 200 flower varieties, there's always something that does well. It always a good season for something.<br />
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<br />Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-77072190085787863772014-07-08T07:04:00.000-04:002014-08-17T21:53:22.588-04:00Down The Aisle<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-be988tD93Ko/U7vCeNiGpQI/AAAAAAAAG6E/8Y5rXb22uR8/s1600/DSC04075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-be988tD93Ko/U7vCeNiGpQI/AAAAAAAAG6E/8Y5rXb22uR8/s1600/DSC04075.JPG" height="426" width="640" /></a><br />
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I've been brewing a post for awhile about weddings in my head. This year marks 10 years of marriage for John and me. Ironically, we met at a wedding (which we both-- uninvited- crashed). We didn't grow up dreaming of being in the wedding business. John thought he would be an artist. He says he didn't think too hard about it. I was a always going to be a farmer, but somewhere along the way, I also became a midwife. The wedding business, believe it or not, is very similar to the birth business in the sense that it is a huge exercise in walking people through their misplaced anxiety. Here are some observations:<br />
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1. When a woman would come to me pregnant, I would walk her through the process of growing a baby. Every visit, she would come with questions and concerns and preoccupations. Its a layering process. She would be worried about the size of the baby, will the baby fit, the labor, will she know its labor, the birth, will the baby fit, the pain. Hardly ever would a woman mention any concern about how she will be as a mother, how the baby will fit into her tidy life, how it will change her relationship. It's the same with weddings. I meet these sweet couples, and we focus on details and design. They stress about the linens, the menu, the favors. They never speak of the changes, the union to come, the life after the wedding.<br />
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2. When I take care of a woman in labor, she's not of herself, she's let go, making room for another love in her heart. This translates into a lot of terse comments for the time she's giving birth and then the clouds lift, the birds start singing and the sky is blue as she smiles and looks up and I would see that friend I met 9 months ago when she first stepped in to my office, finally holding the sweetest prize and all I can think about as I wipe the tears away (cause I cry at every birth and every wedding and every AT&T commercial from the 90's) is what an honor it is to be present to witness great love. With the wedding, we spend some time....maybe 9 months, maybe 6... (depends on if the couple is personality type A or B) planning, talking scheming. They often aren't thinking a lick about the marriage. The focus is on the large party with a union of family and friends that feels overwhelming at times. Sometimes, they get lost in the details, fraught with what I like to call their misplaced anxiety...focused on the single serving jam party favors and the perfect hemstitch napkins. But then, they process down the aisle, and, like birth, they make room, at some point as they're traveling to the altar, for another true love in their heart. The venue isn't important, the tent doesn't matter, the dress is second fiddle. As popular as the 15 minute wedding ceremony is in America, there is still something to it .... to the moment these two people open up and let the other one in for the long haul, with witness. That's what we're celebrating when we help folks have a wedding. We're celebrating the honor of being witness to the heart growing larger.<br />
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And, when we are lucky enough to make it just a little more beautiful with our flowers or just a little more comfortable at our farm or just a little easier because I had some effective comment during a phone meeting, the profoundness of what we are contributing to, the love we are supporting, is never lost on us. Even when we put the last drunk wedding guest from a wedding here at the farm on to a shuttle bus to head back to Portland for the afterparty, we often<br />
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embrace each other and laugh about how we ended up stumbling into the wedding business. We wonder if anyone met at the wedding who will later be married. We wonder if the flowers were just right. We wonder what can we do better next time to help each couple navigate the space between engagement and moment they stand in front of all those they love. Once the ceremony is over, the reception feels much like the time shortly after the birth, its just like the afterglow once the baby is in that momma's arms for the first time. A huge sigh of relief, a huge knowing moment between beings. A cocktail and some tasty hors d'oeuvres help but mostly its the reality that you've committed to love, to knowing an open heart, to knowing a lasting union.<br />
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The honor of being present for this never gets old.<br />
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WEEK 4 CSA HARVEST<br />
Strawberries<br />
Sugar Snap Peas<br />
Lettuce<br />
Mizuna<br />
Garlic Scapes<br />
Zucchini<br />
Kale<br />
Spinach<br />
Red Stemmed Turnips<br />
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Some of the things on this week's harvest list for the CSA may be unfamiliar. Most of the share is best eaten raw this week. Which may work out well, given the warm temperatures. Sugar snap peas are meant to be eaten pod and all. They are picked at their peak of sugar content so the sweetness for a vegetable is unparalleled. The mizuna is an Asian green best eaten raw. It loves to be incorporated into salads or made into a slaw. It can be cooked, but anything beyond a wilted preparation comes out slimey. The red stemmed turnips are a spring turnip that is sweet and tender and can be eaten raw in a salad or as part of the mizuna cole slaw. You can roast the turnips as well. The strawberries....well shortcake is the quintessential 4th of July dessert so I guess you could say Mother Nature timed it well this year.<br />
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For those of you who are wondering, we will be harvesting and distributing produce on the 4th of July, which is this Friday. We will start distribution early, at 12:00, on Friday.<br />
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Mark your calendar for an evening of music and summer fun July 31st. We'll be hosting the Strangely Possibles. Bring a picnic, bring the family, bring some friends. Most importantly, bring your dancing shoes. There is no cost to join us for this mid-summer celebration. I'm sure Alex, one of the band members of the Strangely Possibles, and a board member of the Scarborough Land Trust, who owns the property, will probably encourage you to make a donation to the Land Trust, which is always appreciated. It helps keep the barns looking spiffy and enables the land trust to preserve more properties, including the <a href="http://www.scarboroughlandtrust.org/documents/BF-Land-Bond-6-14.pdf" target="_blank">Benjamin Farm,</a> on the other side of town. <br />
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So, come on by and visit us this week. The stand is stocked with greens and berries and peas. There are flowers by the bucketful coming out of our fields. Its the season that gives back, here in Maine. And, I must say after that long winter, it feels so nice to be in July.<br />
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Blessings on the meal-<br />
Stacy<br />
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<br />Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10601641084824527805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5381382523942003046.post-8003214991113013822014-06-24T09:17:00.000-04:002014-06-24T09:31:57.262-04:00Week Three and I Have No Good Excuses<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PAWNx_ZKqiw/U6lrrjudoQI/AAAAAAAAGy0/Eqm2d4y2tAE/s1600/DSC03965.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PAWNx_ZKqiw/U6lrrjudoQI/AAAAAAAAGy0/Eqm2d4y2tAE/s1600/DSC03965.JPG" height="426" width="640" /></a><br />
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This week marks our 3rd week of harvest for the CSA. And, we must offer our sincerest apologies for ignoring this medium to communicate with all of you about what's in each week's share.<br />
But, I promise we'll keep you all posted from here on out.<br />
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<b>Week 3</b><br />
Lettuce<br />
Spinach<br />
Napa Cabbage<br />
Beets<br />
Rainbow Chard<br />
Hakurei Turnip (salad turnips meant to be eaten raw)<br />
Garlic Scapes (a delicious spring garlic treat....the flowering part of the garlic plant)<br />
Cilantro<br />
And, maybe a small pint of strawberries<br />
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A note about the berries: We tried something new last summer when we planted the berries and it doesn't seem to have worked as well as our previous strategies. This translates into a smaller yield of berries this season than in past seasons and we apologize. We may not have weeks of those overflowing quarts for everyone this season. However, the good news is, next year's berries are planted, we went back to our old ways and everything is coming along nicely. We'll be overloaded with 2X as many berries as any other year next year. I know that doesn't help your shortcake and jam plans for this year, but....<br />
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A note about 4th of July: We will still be harvesting your CSA share on the 4th of July. Feel free to come as early as noon to collect your share if you have evening barbecue/fireworks plans. If you need to switch to Tuesday for travel reasons, just drop Stacy a line.<br />
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What's new at the farm....<br />
We are in full tilt boogie over here with lots of new faces. Bread and Butter joined us this past weekend from our friend's at <a href="http://tenapplefarm.com/" target="_blank"> Ten Apple Farm</a> in Gray. They are Alpine dairy goats and full of love. They are living between the livestock barn and a paddock near the outhouses. Make sure you come say hello. Our summer camp kids are in charge of the goats, walking or carrying them back and forth to their paddock in the morning and afternoon. I think its going to be a wonderful union.<br />
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Babycakes, a little bull (male) calf, was born to our dairy cow, Clementine, on June 9th. I took this little video on the afternoon of his birth.<br />
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She found her way to the bottom of the pasture and gave birth on the first really warm day in June. Everyone is doing well. They can be found grazing in the pasture or chewing cud in the barn. Clementine is producing crazy amounts of milk for us as a freshened cow. We are loaded with 4-5 gallons a day. Break out the Nesquik....its chocolate milk time all the time over here.<br />
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Flora convinced me she needed ducklings because her friend was getting some.<br />
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We searched online and she decided on white crested as a breed. They look like my little old Jewish uncles with yellow fluff suits and little yamakas on their heads. They always seem to be dancing the hora around their swimming pool. When you mail order poultry, there is a minimum of 15 in an order to make sure they have each other's body heat to keep them warm. So, we have about 8 more ducks than we need. Anyone want some fluffy little Jewish uncles in yamakas dancing the hora in your kiddy pool this summer? The white crested breed is a dual purpose breed. Good for meat or eggs.<br />
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The turkey babies have arrived as well. There are 15 and as in previous years, we'll raise them up for Thanksgiving. In the fall, we'll offer a choose-your-own-turkey-and-learn-to-process-poultry class to folks who want a hand in where their bird comes from. It has been a wonderful class to teach and we always enjoy walking people through the experience.<br />
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And, the farm stand is open. We moved it out of the flower shop and into the back of the long barn where the CSA distribution occurs. It will be open M-Sat, 9-6 and stocked with flowers and produce. We don't set up the stand on Sundays, but you are always welcome to take a drive out to see the animals and walk the fields and trails.<br />
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We built a new produce washing area. We love it and are learning the flow of a new space.<br />
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The crew for the season is all here. Between the education crew, the field crew,the floral design ladies and everyone who's able to dance between all of these roles, we have 13 employees. Rafael and his son, Johnny are here with us for the summer from Puerto Rico, where they have a small coffee farm.<br />
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We don't count Flora on the payroll but she's mighty helpful and gets paid in ducklings.<br />
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Without all these hands, we would be helpless. We are forever thankful to our crew for their patience, sense of humor, and tenacity to get the job done.<br />
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Happy first week of summer!<br />
Blessings on the meal-<br />
Stacy<br />
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I'm pretty sure she's not eating vegetables in this picture....<br />
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