Our first frost in Boulder normally happens somewhere during the first 10 days of October, and sure enough, that’s what happened this year. As anticipated, the hard frost whacked the tomatoes, peppers, basil and eggplant for the year, as well…
Winter is coming. On Monday. If you planned on making tomato sauce to put up or freeze; pickling peppers; cooking big batches of baba ganoush from local organic eggplants, calabacitas with summer squash and corn, or salsa with jalapenos and cherry tomatoes…
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…
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?”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…