Goodbye rain, hello farmers’ market sun
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,...
A Banner Sheep-Shearing Day at Black Cat Farm
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...
Leeks, Beets, Grains and Soup — Your April 15 Market Report
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...
