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How to Blanch Greens

We have LOTS of spinach sitting under the high tunnel. This winter, Farmer Kurt has been growing spinach under two of our high tunnels. Yeah, that’s a LOT of spinach. It just keeps coming. Every week, Kurt goes out and harvests it. Sends it to the chefs. But we just can’t get rid of it…
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How to Make Pesto Anything

Did you know you can make pesto out of more than just basil? Yes. While you wait for that bombshell to sink in, let me also inform you of something else pretty fantastic: You can freeze pesto. Mind blowing up. To make pesto, you pretty much just need some greens. And if you’re in our…
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9 Ways to Use Salsa (Besides Chips and Dip)

It’s that time of year…SO many tomatoes. You might even say “too many” tomatoes? Farmer Kurt calls it Tomatopalooza! Most of us are loving the all the fresh tomatoes, but I also know that there are plenty of you out there who could use a viable exit strategy so these beauties don’t go to waste!…
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10 Ways to Use Pesto

If you’ve been taking our advice in our CSA tutorials, you’ve been producing a lot of pesto with your overload of greens. (One of our top vegetable exit strategies).   But what in the world are you going to do with all of it now that you’ve made it? I mean, there’s only so much…
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8 Ways to Use Up Lots of Tomatoes

And just like that, the tomatoes have taken over. Doesn’t it seem that two weeks ago, we were waiting with bated breath for the tomatoes to even start? Every year I feel guilty that I didn’t take advantage of the tomatoes while they were here. Instead, I let myself get overwhelmed and just give up.…
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How to Become a CSA Master

What are “Master” CSA members? Well, it’s a term I’ve coined.  In 2016, I worked on a BIG project, interviewing the long-time members of our CSA who I would categorize as “Masters.” This means they are really good at using the whole box of veggies each week. They instinctively know how to cook fresh food,…
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How to Find the Right CSA

So you’ve decided you want to join a CSA, and now you’re ready to find one. There’s just one problem. Where do you begin? Starting a search for the “right” CSA can be overwhelming. This article is going to try to help you figure out the questions you should even be asking yourself. How are…
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Sheet Pan Meals: Vegetable Exit Strategy

I love easy meal prep. And in the heat of the growing season, fast and easy is even more important. I can’t tell you the number of days when 6 PM rolls around, and I have no plan. “Looks like it’s scrambled eggs again for dinner, boys!” Does this happen to you too? Recently during…
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The Faith of a Farmer

It takes a lot of faith to be a farmer. Today I’m writing about farmers, God, and the place of faith on the farm. It was a gutsy thing to post a whole blogpost on something like this. I worried people would dismiss it as preachy. I assure you I’m not trying to preach. But…
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Top 10 Vegetable Exit Strategies (When You’ve Got Veggie Overload)

My refrigerator is going to explode. It’s the time of the CSA season, when the sweet corn husks take over half the bottom shelf, my three heads of cabbage are stuffed into the back right corner, and my last 3 weeks of beet roots are multiplying in the Debbie Meyer green bags. If trying to…
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