Pic of the Week

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This pepperment candy-looking vegetable is called a Chioggia beet.  Enjoy the beauty and mild flavor of this fancy Italian beet that was used in the seaweed soup discussed earlier this week. 

Seaweed Soup From the Seaweed Man

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Seaweed just keeps popping up at the farm and for good reason too.  This interesting and powerful plant not only makes our soil healthier, but our bodies as well.  You may remember seaweed from such posts as Some Help From Some Kelp where we not only dove into the ocean, but into the positive impacts kelp can have even on plants right on your windowsill and Till, Rake, Rattle and Roll where we amended greenhouse soil beds using dried kelp powder to strengthen the soil.  This week Matt and I found ourselves lucky enough to sit in on a seaweed class, at Stone Barns, with none other than...

Pic of the Week

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This week I thought we'd try something new, a pic of the week.  This little guy was just too cool to pass up and those caterpillar colors are damn absurd.  So make sure to click on the picture to enlarge and enjoy and please let us know what you think right in the comments section below.

Raw Eggs...mmm Tastes Like Chicken

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Maybe it's from watching Rocky do it as a kid, maybe it's my animal instincts crying out, but whatever it is I've always wanted to eat a raw egg.  Growing up at the height of the supermarket era, believing eggs magically appeared by the dozen in cartons, I was always told to never eat a raw egg because it was dangerous.  This deterred me long enough, I finally faced the challenge this week, but what rekindled my desire to devour a raw egg, or three, was actually a...

Have You Ever Built An Oven?

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Under this fancy green picnic blanket lies one of the coolest, most interesting projects Matt or I have ever helped put together and I am very excited to share it with you.  This functional, yet beautiful structure is called a...

Fire Weeding: As Fun as It Sounds

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As we learned a few months ago, summer weeds can be a lot more fierce and resilient out in the fields where the winds and other variables are a lot more unpredictable than in the greenhouse.  This week Alec and Zach gave us a tutorial on one of the coolest weeding techniques I've ever heard of.  It's probably not something us city folk will get to use too often, but...