Posts Tagged ‘organic farming’
The spring palate of greens and turnips and delicate bulbs of all things “baby” is finally giving way to the long anticipated summer sluggers…tomatoes and melons are just around the corner. But the bridge to that long awaited season of plenty is showing up in garden rows and farmer’s markets now.
Zucchini is the celebrated staple of the CSA box this week. It is here to stay for awhile, and so why not celebrate? What will we do to keep ourselves from growing tired of the ordinary and keep the love affair with zucchini alive for at least a few weeks?
Our recipe suggestions this week include three ways to enjoy this hearty and unrelenting power veggie of the season, ZUCCHINI!
Our Local Foods and Chef Sean Brock from McCrady’s Tavern in historic Charleston, SC celebrated the garden this week in an extraordinary way. We hosted “dinner on the porch” as fulfillment of a pretty classy auction item from the coffers of the local fundraiser circuit.
The wonderful meal consisted of vegetables freshly harvested from the damp rows that afternoon, as they were hastily collected in the rain for the evening event.
Guests arrived just as the rain subsided to find the table all set with linens and candles on the screened-in front porch of the cabin that will become our farm store. Mini-lights and citronella lanterns filled the space with a soft welcoming hue of light that said “settle in for a comfortable evening with the chef…”.
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Well, we almost got washed away yesterday. The report was more than 5″ of rain in 12 hours… so now we’re trying to dry off. We’re never ones to complain about rain - sometimes we just wish we could control when and how much comes down. But, there’s a lot to do in the fields, so we’ll back out as soon as the ground dries enough to get back in there.
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Yesterday we got Adaptive Gardens of the Lowcountry up and running at Thornhill Farm in McClellanville. This program helps high school students with disabilities by engaging them in horticultural therapy. The horticultural therapy aspects of the program are handled by Catherine, and Our Local Foods is involved in helping provide infrastructure and support however we can. The students are from Georgetown HS and they did a great job getting the planter boxes filled with good soil, and then started the planting. Stay tuned for updates as their garden grows!
…some pictures of the adaptive gardening program
- Maria
