by Douglas Brown | Jul 28, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
It’s been nice, hasn’t it? Summer had been plodding along, climatically, as a parade of hot, dry days. We began to look west for signs of smoke. But then the temperatures dropped, some rain fell, and the haze that seemed to occupy the sky for weeks...
by Douglas Brown | Jul 21, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest
The first chunk of every farmers’ market season gets dominated by leafy things and rooty things — lettuces, kale, spinach, turnips, spring onions, radishes. And then the fruiting vegetables begin appearing — peas are early fruiters, but the rest of the...
by Douglas Brown | Jul 14, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
We spend a lot of time in fields — preparing soil, planting, weeding, harvesting, tending to animals, irrigating and as of this week hosting a farm dinner as well, our first-ever at Black Cat Farm. None of it would be possible without our partnerships with Open Space...
by Douglas Brown | Jul 7, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
We finally are harvesting some fruiting vegetables: summer squash, Anaheim peppers and … shishito peppers! We are so very pleased to raise the little flavor bombs known as shishitos this year. They have many preparations, but the easiest is probably tossed in a...