Mexican Cucumber Cilantro Salad with Lime

Cuc and cilantro plant notes Cucumbers and cilantro are ready at the same time in the gardens and greenhouse this week! Cilantro is the Spanish translation for coriander, the botanical name for this herb is Coriandrum sativum and in India, where it is also extremely popular in cooking, it’s called Dhania. We use the green leafy parsley-like foliage for Mexican …

CSA garden basket for July 10

Good food basket pick-ups on July 10 & 13 Hey CSA families – city pick-up is from 5 pm to 7 pm at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, July 10. Or, if you signed up for farm pick-up you can get your goodies between noon and 6 pm on Sunday, July 13. What’s growing now Red root amaranth …

Summer abundance is coming

Farmer Tam’s field report July is the beginning of summer abundance Garden abundance pallet art by Charee Moore’s I made that! board on Pinterest. Edible weeds First it’s the weeds, popping up with wild abandon with no regard for our nice neat rows. But some are edible, like the “Fat Hen” and “Red-rooted Amaranth”, which we’ll be cutting for bunches …

Creamy sorrel soup

More than anything else I can think of, sorrel falls straight between herbs and greens Use it as a leafy herb – like parsley, basil or mint – chopping it up to use in salsa verdes, dressings or stirring it into soups (like this creamy sorrel soup recipe) for a bit of fresh flavor. Or, use it as a green …

What’s growing this week in the CSA garden

Good food pick up Thursday, July 3 or Sunday, July 6 Yippee – our weekly veg and herb bounty starts this week! CSA families can pick up their  good food from the city pick up location at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, July 3 from 5–7 pm. Or come pick up your goodies and …

Feta, tofu and white Lisbon onion omelette

Enjoy these spring onions Even the seeds in their flower heads add quite a zesty onion zap! It was a cool late spring this season! The Western Producer (a farming newspaper) claims that we have moved into a new 30-year cycle that involves the “Pacific Oscillation”. Cool and wet springs for the next 30 years. Sigh. I said to my …

Spring salad with black currant vinaigrette

This combination is full of flavors – sorrel provides a lemony kick Fresh spring greens come and go so quickly in the garden! We seeded the spinach and early lettuce the last week of April this season. The garden was still so wet, we almost got the tractor stuck! But having greens to harvest in late June and early July …

CSA good food box for June 19

Good food box pick up Thursday, June 19 or Sunday, June 22  Hey CSA families – come get your next good food box from the city pick up location at RGE RD – 123 St & 106 Ave – on Thursday, June 19 between 5–7 pm. Or come to the farm on Sunday, June 22 between noon and 6 pm. …

Meet your vegetables: Broccoli

Will Broccoli be there? Meet Broccoli – chilling in the raw with his crudité entourage or soaking in a hot tub of cheese and rice, he’s delighted just to be here. Life lesson: bring Broccoli to every party. You’ll miss him when he’s not there. Funky, fun and the life of the party You can take this guy anywhere – …

How to sprout everything

Watch life grow Big and little kids love watching seeds and beans grow – plus they are delicious and super nutritious. You can buy sprouting seeds like red clover, alfalfa and fenugreek or use a huge variety of beans and lentils – nothing bigger than a chick pea though and never use kidney beans. Here’s how to sprout almost anything in five …