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This week's share consists of delicatta winter squash, tomatoes, mesclun lettuce, arugula, radish, mixed Asian greens, chard, onions, parsley, and a dill flower that's about halfway from becoming dill seeds. Some people eat them, others just enjoy looking at them. I like looking at them while eating them. The delicatta squash is thin walled so it cooks up much faster than most other types of winter squash. Their skin is edible.  plugged into the sun  and you thought your melon was small  water droplets caught in sunbeam(s)  clover towering over turnips and lettuce. (note the footprints in the pathways)  patience  most walls are straight  shortly before we gave up... 
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We are into harvest season.....the summer crops wont quit, and the fall crops wont wait. This weeks share consists of beets, salad turnips, Asian greens, broccoli, red cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cilantro, scallions, garlic, and lots of lettuce----(so please share your homemade salad dressing recipes!)  full share. scallions, cilantro, and garlic not shown  keeping it green  fall broccoli, lettuce, and kale  some of our lime green curly fluffy soft buttery lettuce   Buddy, our beloved field guardian, he fears no chipmunk, This weeks share consists of potatoes, leeks, dill, beans, arugula, tomatoes, chard , lettuce, kohlrabi, and salad turnips. First Light Farm would never have gotten off the ground without help from Liz and Peter Mulholland at Valley View Farm in Topsfield. They helped us find land where we could grow our veggies, and they also shared their farm with us so we could distribute our veggies. Valley View Farm makes artisan cheeses from their own herd of nubian goats, all of which are born and raised (by hand) on their farm. Please check out this link to their Cheese Cave Project. World Class Cheeses grown and crafted in Essex County. Kinda makes you proud. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=Topsfield  this week's full share   This weeks share consists of melons, tomatoes, arugula, mixed asian greens, tatsoi, beets, collard greens, scallions, garlic, and cilantro. Also, depending on how much they grow, there may be some zucchini and/or eggplant. These are the little things that make eating locally and seasonally so exciting! Collard greens are under-rated. If you have a good recipe, share it on facebook. The fall/winter share signup will be available in a few weeks. I'm still trying to figure out how much food we'll have...  sustainable farms don't use chemicals to control weeds, we do it mechanically- by hand, hoe, or tractor. Tractor cultivation only works while the crops are small enough to avoid being damaged by the tractor tines. Today was out last chance to sneak in and cultivate this baby lettuce  Healthy, weed free, late season head lettuce. On the farm, we are sometimes lucky enough to see beauty in the seemingly insignificant...  With the average height of our farm crew around 5'4", we will soon need a ladder to harvest these tomatoes!   This ain't Kansas. We are farming in the woods. Our land is sloped, rocky, and periodically in the shade. Its costs more to grow vegetables here, but local food is worth it.  Beets with nice looking tops! There are virtues to having such variable conditions in our fields. Our farm has many microclimates. This provides us with several different growing conditions within our small plot of land. This moist shady spot is ideal for raising cool season crops through the heat of summer.  The sunshine really brought 'em out of the woodwork last Saturday at the Rockport farmers market.  It's under control This weeks share consists of beets, carrots, lettuce, bok choi, savoy cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and/or patty pan summer squash, a small sack of potatoes, fresh dill, and an ornamental amaranth flower- the floppy red thing. The tiny amaranth flower seeds may fall out and get on your vegetables (or counter), but don't worry, they're actually an edible cereal grain. People all around the world grind them up to create a flour that is gluten free and high in lysine. One large seedhead contains up to 500,000 seeds.     baby beets breaking through   pretty slow day at the farmers market.....  yeah  |
First Light Farm, CSA
466 Highland Avenue, Hamilton, MA
466 Highland Avenue, Hamilton, MA