by Douglas Brown | Mar 26, 2018 | arugula, biodynamic, Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farm to table, farmers market, pig
Stocking our restaurants with year-round farm food demands strategies — we do live in Colorado, after all. If something is capable of undergoing preservation in such a way that flavor is maintained (if not transformed in an excellent way), then we preserve. So...
by Douglas Brown | May 26, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market
Farming would be so much easier if we planted just one thing, like corn or tomatoes. Prep the soil in the spring. Wait for the right day during the planting window to put things in the ground. Plant. Weed. Harvest. The end. Since we supply our restaurants with most of...
by Douglas Brown | May 19, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, Uncategorized
Happy Friday, Black Catters. It has been a busy week. We have been planting at a fevered pace for a few weeks, and due to the snow/rain that we saw coming earlier in the week we understood we had to get seeds into the ground before it all began. So we planted corn. We...
by Douglas Brown | Mar 20, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, sheep, Uncategorized
Last year, we blamed the pigs for the loss of about half of our artichoke crop (they gobbled it up). This year, it’s the wind. We counted seven days this winter, beginning on Christmas Day, with hurricane-force winds. In between, we suffered through a parade of days...
