by Douglas Brown | Aug 25, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
We believe you have not tried the following two things: Fingerling sweet potatoes grown in Boulder County Sweet potato greens What are you waiting for? We wrote about our sweet potato adventure here, in our last blog entry. Now that we have had a chance to bring the...
by Douglas Brown | Aug 18, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
Our food laboratory — the farm — persuades us to try new things every year. It is a laboratory, after all. Figuring out how to coax artichoke plants to produce globes took about five years (the photo above is an artichoke flower. It looks like it belongs in a coral...
by Douglas Brown | Aug 12, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
Did you hear that? It was the fields (well, most of them) slurping down all of that much-needed water this week. We irrigate our fields, so water falling from the sky is not always vital. But of course it is usually welcome. The downside? The weeds sure do love water...
by Douglas Brown | Aug 4, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare
Tomatoes? Check. Peppers? Yep. Eggplant? You betcha’. Tomatillos? Indeed. Our harvests lately have been downright cornucopian — and wouldn’t it rock if we had a goat’s horn to display the things we are pulling from the fields? But alas, no horn. Not...
