by Douglas Brown | Sep 29, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
Will the rain — although really, it’s been more like an unrelenting mist — ever stop? Water is usually welcome in sunny Colorado, and course it is vital for farming. But it also complicates things like planting and harvesting, especially when it just comes at us...
by Douglas Brown | Sep 22, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
We all have sensed it in the mornings the past few weeks — fall’s arrival. We think she finally knocks on the door tomorrow morning, looking dramatic in a scarf and sweater and grinning madly. “Are you ready for me?” “We are not. But come on in, Fall. Nice to see you...
by Douglas Brown | Sep 15, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
One of our experiments this year, in addition to sweet potatoes and Belgian endive, was peanuts. It looks like we scored a hat trick this year. The sweet potatoes and endive were triumphs, and despite research that cautioned us against trying peanuts — the legumes...
by Douglas Brown | Sep 8, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
Finally! We will be selling our own organic Boulder County sweet potatoes on Saturday at the Market. Yes! As we have chronicled in detail on the blog, growing sweet potatoes was a surprise triumph for us this year. They are not supposed to really grow in Colorado —...
by Douglas Brown | Sep 1, 2017 | belgian endive, Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
With enough pepper, eggplant and tomato plants to supply the island of Corsica with produce for a year, we are awfully busy in the fields plucking fruit, tossing it into baskets, and hauling it on our shoulders up to the trucks. Among other things, we are turning...
