Seasonal Local Produce from the Farm

Harvested Weekly for Members to Pick Up

Week 6 Peaceful Belly CSA Produce
Carrot - Beets - Green Onion - Napa Cabbage - Bag of Shelling Peas - Lettuce - Cherries

Seasonal Local Produce from the Farm

Harvested Weekly for Members to Pick Up

Week 5 Peaceful Belly CSA Produce
Carrot - Green Onion - Napa Cabbage - Spinach - Lettuce Mix - Peas

You haven't had a pea or a carrot until you've eaten them fresh from the farm... And yet, we chose to prepare a Slow-Roasted Salmon with Melted Cabbage recipe by Chef Michael Schlow, known for his work on PBS's Victory Garden with our Napa Cabbage and carrots with this week’s bounty.

Slowly roasted med-rare salmon, carrot reduction sauce, bacon, fresh carrots and fresh napa cabbage combine to make your mouth water.

The complete recipe can be found at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/eat/recipes/salmon_cabbage.html#carrots.

Seasonal - Local Produce - From the Farm

Harvested Weekly for Members to Pick Up
Week 4 Peaceful Belly CSA Produce
Turnips - Chard - Kale - Boc Choy - Spinach - Lettuce

My favorite produce from the farm (so far) has been the Boc Choy however I've developed a fondness for the turnip as well. Using rice noodles, coconut milk, ginger, garlic, and boc choy is a great way to spice up your dinner plate.

Saying "Goodbye" to Our Grass

one section at a time...

We used the Kanga to level the yard by digging dirt from the higher sections and depositing the soil in the lower areas. This task took approximately three days with the help of several friends.

In order to get to the soil, we needed to uproot the grass and that job called for a different tool all together - we rented a large front tined rototiller and worked the yard over several times.

Kanga - the Earth Mover

This little green machine is going to make "light-work" of our yard demolition... or so we thought.

While it did make our job a lot easier (can you imagine digging up a yard manually?) the project is still huge.

Determining What Level Is

We've been busy in the backyard - but before we could start digging up our grass and moving the dirt around, we had to determine what level was...

My husband engineered a water leveler and we learned that level was roughly 12 inches higher in many sections of our yard than the existing height. Clearly, it is going to take a lot of dirt to fill in the spaces and fortunately enough, there are sections of the yard that need to be brought down to create a level standing.

After taking the water leveler around the yard, we found that the fence line level - the exact height that we needed to bring the dirt up to.

Making Room for the Earth Moving Equipment

There is only one way into the backyard and it was blocked by the geothermal tub and deck. It took two to move the empty tub and five to move the deck - We removed the fencing that closed off the back from the courtyard thereby creating a path for the equipment that we would use to remove the grass from the yard.

(The tub was in this position for several days which caused the grass to yellow underneath.)