With the height of summer comes the very best tomatoes and cucumbers. Heirloom tomatoes and cucumbers have just started to grace the Black Cat farm booth. In celebration of their excellence, a slightly modified version of one of Eric’s recipes…
The Black Cat farm booth at the Boulder Farmers’ Market will include the following Summer produce on August 10, 2013: Baby beets Baby Romaine lettuce Baby Summer squash with flowers attached Basil Cabbage Carrots Celery Cucumbers, Mandurian and Shintokiwa Garlic…
There are 960 varieties of summer squash. Some common ones grown in North America are yellow, yellow crookneck, and pattypan squash as well as zucchini and Trombincino. This summer, the Black Cat farm is growing Rondé Nice, One Ball, and…
The Black Cat farm booth at the Boulder Farmers Market will include the following Summer produce on August 3, 2013: Baby beets Baby Summer squash with flowers attached Cabbage Carrots Collard greens Cucumbers Fresh black garbanzo beans Garlic Jericho lettuce…
The Black Cat farm booth at the Boulder Farmers Market will include the following Summer produce on July 27, 2013: Beets and beet greens Cabbage Carrots Collard greens Fresh garbanzo beans Jericho lettuce Leeks Red Swiss chard Spring onions Summer…
Wild carrots originated in Iran and Afghanistan. Currently, there are orange, purple, red, yellow, and white carrot varieties available. While orange-colored varieties are most familiar to us, they only first appeared in the 17th century. Not only are carrot roots…
This post applies to the Black Cat Farm booth for both July 13, 2013 and July 20, 2013. The Black Cat farm booth at the Boulder Farmers Market offered a bounty of the following Summer produce on July 13, 2013:…
The garbanzo bean, also known as chickpeas, ceci, and channa, is a member of the legume family. A high protein food source that farmers cultivated in the Middle East 7500 years ago, the ancient Greeks and Romans ate garbanzo…