On Monday morning the farm was completely transformed. The juniper trees awoke to mass amounts of snow weighing down their strong limbs, causing some of the branches to break under 30 inches of snowfall, which had accumulated overnight. All of us on the farm threw on our snow pants and warmest jackets and trudged
If you’re anything like us, you are overwhelmed by all the un-trustworthy food out there. You need to eat and you need food you can trust. It doesn’t help that as of 2017, only 27% of surveyed CSA farms in the U.S. were Certified Organic. This percentage has dropped from 46% Organic CSA providers
Hello! We at Rainshadow Organics could not be more thrilled to share our 2019 Summer CSA sign up with you! Can you believe we’re already dreaming up our summer season in February? Seeds have been ordered and the first crops have already been planted! Our goal with our CSA program is to make what
We live in a beautiful day in age where we have the technology to coax nutrition from Central Oregon soil year round, and Rainshadow Organics has become so good at reading the ground and finding what it will produce. This intuition has led to a winter bounty of roots and hearty greens. One of
There are so many vegetables that get overpowered so easily. Delicate in texture, flavor, or both, it can be challenging to let them stand up and sing. To me, fennel bulb is one of those things. Fragrant and formidable in its raw state gives way to a lightly flavored complexity with toothsome texture that
Thanksgiving is always so fun! Family comes together which makes us equally elated and ready to pull our hair out, the air is crisp, and we are primed and ready to pack on the pounds.... Or we're about to, so we might as well embrace it. I mean, we don't even have to think
I love that Rainshadow had so many squash growing in so many places on the farm that they had to conduct The Great Squash Tasting. This may be helpful next year, but for now, I ended up with something oddly gorgeous; dark green with white speckles and stripes and deeply orange flesh. I was
When the days are long and warm, it is nice to have something cool and refreshing. And who doesn't love sushi? You? I don't believe it. Well, for you, we can add grilled steak or chicken. It's still awesome. I started making these poke style burritos when I lived on Maui, and
Comfort food can truly be a labor of love! Sometimes you get this wild idea that your Primal French Onion Soup really will be WAY better with traditional sourdough croutons... Aaaand you decide this at 6 pm. I'm actually laughing as I type this. My college finals brain is firing on
I am always cold. All year. I wear a jacket in July. Did I mention I really miss living in Hawaii? I even ordered Beef Bourgoignon in 80 degree heat over there all the time. So, it goes without saying, I need warm hearty comfort food this time of year or I'll die. Truly.
