You’re Invited! CSA Social: Farm Tour and Bites
Friends, it's time to gather. I've been writing a lot about community lately, and now it's time to put it into practice. We'd love for you to join us on the farm for an evening [...]
Continuing to Deepen Our Full Diet Community
After my deep dive into basil last week, I found myself thinking about diving deep into our Full Diet community, too. A few weeks ago I ran into another Full Diet member while I was out running [...]
Aromatics are here!
Let's Chat About Basil... One of the things that makes Rainshadow special is our dedication to variety. Growing a diverse mix of crops increases biodiversity in our fields, supports beneficial insects, and helps foster healthy soil microbiology. That diversity also [...]
Experimenting and Finding Joy
Curiosity and Learning Last week's email started something I'm excited about. Kitchen Conversations will be a small thread woven through these emails as more conversations take place. They won't appear every week, but they'll pop up as the season unfolds and [...]
Kitchen Conversations
This art was created by one of our Full Diet members as a way of expressing her gratitude for this farm and food it produces to feed her family. Big LOVE Kitchen Conversations This spring we hosted [...]
If you can’t eat from where you live, should you live there?
Some words from Sarahlee from this time last year: The food coming to fruition is a miracle. A daily, stop you in your tracks, miracle. Growing it with such an incredible team and sharing it with you is [...]
Full Diet: March 19
New Crops are Sprouting! The excitement of the summer harvest is setting in, indicated by the longer days and later sunsets! The peas are sprouting arms to climb up the trellises, onions are getting their second round [...]
Full Diet: March 12
An Ode to Oxtail I have often shied away from oxtail.: it is literally a cow's tail split into its individual vertebra. On the front that can be rather off-putting; however, cooked, oh wow! Insert emoji of kissing [...]
February 26: Full Diet
St Patty's Day is coming up! Only a few weeks away now and it is time to start thinking about what you want to cook for dinner to celebrate. That is, of course, if [...]
Full Diet: February 19
A Mid-Winter BBQ The snow and ice is melting here on the farm, but I have still been thinking about BBQ. Partially because we have so many slow cooking cuts in the freezer that [...]
