Farming is all about taking care of babies And growing vegetables at Rainshadow is about relationships. While some of our plants are only around for a few weeks (carrots, radishes, salad turnips), we have many more that spend months on the farm. We start them as seeds, transplant them after they spend a month or
Weeding: it's what we do to stay ahead This past week we did a lot of weed maintenance. As organic farmers, the only real way to keep weeds down to a "manageable" level is to stay on top of the weeding! Often this means weeding when you can't even see weeds. At the
We just finished planting the 25-acre field! Wow, what a week–wind, not quite freezing temps at night, gradually warming days, rain, sun. All the things that make Central Oregon in the spring so ... special. We have been planting and nurturing crops in the hoops and the 2-acre garden since March for the
Roasted Kabocha Quiche Taste. Taste. Taste again. Recipes aren’t super important to follow astringently (unless you’re baking!), but are more of a nice inspirational guideline that allows you to sample and test as the flavors and textures change throughout the cooking process. So, um, yeah, sign me up for recipe-liberated cooking! The point
Roasted Kabocha Sourdough Oat Waffles Mini science lesson: Sourdough is pretty awesome. I would imagine it has been around since the advent of agriculture (about 12k years ago), but is recorded at least around 3700 B.C. There is so much more I want to know about it. I actually proposed a hypothesis and
Storage roots for the win! I don't know about you, but we are blown away by how long and how well our storage crops are doing! With only May left in our 2020-2021 Winter CSA, we couldn't be happier with how everything is going. The foundation of our Winter CSA are roots we harvested last fall,
It's all about preparation right now. Wow things have been busy at the Farm! March has been all about projects and preparation. We are about a month out from when our next crew of Rogue Farm Corp interns arrive in early May, and in April and May we start to shepherd all our starts into their homes
Classic American Stew Classic American Stew. I spent the winters of my childhood going to deer camp with my parents. It was quite the two week to-do. We had an old canvas military tent that sort of resembled a yurt, complete with a wood stove inside. Something always bubbling in a cast iron
New Orleans Style Gumbo, but Better Gumbo is special. I grew up in the south, but New Orleans south is different. I’m going to go ahead and say it, I like it better. At least for the food. There is something about cajun creole culinary delights that sing to my soul. I was
March CSA pickup: Tomorrow, 3/4! It is feeling mighty spring like around Rainshadow Organics at the moment. We got a little dusting of snow last week, but then the sun popped out and the snow melted and suddenly folks were seeding in their t-shirts in the 4-season greenhouse with the doors open. While there are 3 more CSA pickups left
