by Douglas Brown | Apr 28, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest
Santa Monica, this ain’t. The week of sun and slightly cool weather mixed with rain pleased the soil and plants quite a bit. Weeds seem to have encountered steroids, and as they beef-up we spend a lot of time yanking them (and in the above photo, we are using a...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 21, 2017 | arugula, belgian endive, Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest, leeks
Happy Friday, food lovers! It’s gloomy and chilly, and we have been busy harvesting for the restaurants and the market. Tomorrow, however, the forecast calls for sun. Chilly again, but bright and springy. Before we deliver our haul to the market and restaurants,...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 20, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest, sheep
We shepherd, protect and nurture about 100 sheep, give or take, plus some rams. When the sheep give birth to lambs, the ovis aries population roughly doubles — this year’s lambing gave us a bit more than 90 little ones, teeter-tottering their way across the...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 14, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest, leeks, Uncategorized
The fairly recent rains and snow, coupled with this week’s sun, have coaxed quite a bit of green from the brown soil. We of course spent a lot of time in the fields, bent over to harvest things like sorrel and arugula. But the weeds fairly shouted their arrival...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 7, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest
Seventy-two degrees and breezy. Robin’s egg skies, with cottony clouds. Plants luscious and strong, due to the recent rains and snow. This is our kind of harvest day. Friday is always a busy harvest day for us — between Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in the...
