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- Rainshadow had the pleasure of doing wedding flowers for several brides this summer. Here they are, packed and ready to go.
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- Potato harvest commences August 1st. 40 quarter-mile rows. Over 40,000 pounds.
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- Bridget raised all sorts of oyster mushrooms this summer
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- Dad’s strawberries were the very best and came all summer long
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- Set-up at the Sisters market.
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- Purple Vikings. Best potato ever.
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- Yukina Savoy. My flag vegetable. Toughest ever. -27 to 100+ degrees no problem.
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- Dinner at Rainshadow is a galactic experience
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- Purple orach seed.
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- onion seeds.
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- Our first sweet corn. So good! Heirloom, oldworld variety. Short and sweet.
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- A dear friend and endless helper at Rainshadow, Kimberly with beets.
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- A very special eggplant from southeast asia, with a frog.
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- Our first real success at winter squash. Its holding nicely in the barn.
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- So many beets and carrots and winter squash and potatoes and corn… Each row in the big field is like 12 rows in the garden. We planted 55 rows of veggies in the big field next to the heirloom wheat and buckwheat.
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- One of our favorite wwoofers: Jen from Switzerland
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- The Longtable moves to the barn for the fall.
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- One of our specialty Longtable appetizers: eggplant caviar in nepalese bells.
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- We harvested multi-colored maize that Tall will mill into polenta.
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- We grew carrots for a seed to seed contract with Johnny’s Selected Seeds. We will save the root stock to plant next year. We have about 5 times more than we need. We are finding homes for them at Jackson’s Corner, Spork, Broken Top Bottle Shop, Whole Foods, and Azure Standard.
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- This was our second season raising buckwheat for Hummingbird Wholesale. We got twice as much!
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- Aliza and Alex get serious on the potato digger. Late season wind brings up a lot of dirt.
