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from Just One Cookbook: https://www.justonecookbook.com/homemade-shiso-pesto/

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Adapted from Blue Heron Community Farm: https://www.blueheroncommunityfarm.com/recipe/apple-bok-choy-salad

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taken from the Food Network: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/beet-and-carrot-quick-slaw-recipe-1913679

Okay, so it’s December. But in farmer speak, today feels like my last day of school. For twenty-eight consecutive weeks, starting in mid-June I do the following things for the veggie share [...]

The gray of late November and early December can be rough.  Crisp, bright-blue-sky snowy-ground-days can’t be counted on until January and February. My crew will be the first to tell you [...]

Just before the Thanksgiving, the farm did its member renewal drive for the upcoming summer 2023 season. It’s a 5 day drive, and we encourage members to sign up now so that the farm can [...]

Thanksgiving is complicated holiday for me. The cultural erasure that comes with the traditional American Thanksgiving story is incredibly problematic. My 7 year old came home last night, very [...]

In the original 101 Dalmatians, there is a super cute scene where they depict a cartoon montage of all these different humans walking their dogs. The dogs resemble their humans. The humans [...]

Creating a Rainforest in Our Guts The other day I listened to a Radiolab podcast about our guts. And well I just can’t stop thinking about what I learned. In our bodies we contain an [...]

For weeks now I’ve been bracing for the cold weather… that hasn’t come. These falls days are absolutely divine. I often tell my crews that the sunny afternoons in the fall are [...]

Each fall the transition is a little different from the busy summer season into the more mellow fall season. Most years there is a steady transition beginning in October of full time workers who [...]

Two Part Dispatch: 1) Sorry. Not Sorry. 2) A Big Thank You Sorry. Not Sorry.  On a hike this weekend I ate a simple salad my partner whipped up for lunch. It had chopped fresh parsley, green bell [...]

Two Part Dispatch: 1)The Farm to Foodbank Program 2) A Big Thank You The Farm To Foodbank Program Call to Action: Encourage Your Dane County Supervisor to Support this Awesome Program! Covid-19 [...]

Last season we acquired a refrigerated truck trailer that we converted to a walk-in cooler. We call it cooler W, as it sits on the west side on our packshed. (creative, right?) We use it as a [...]

The concept of a life sacrificed to sustain and nourish the bodies of my family has always felt deeply spiritual to me.  Whether it’s the vegetables we take from the stem or the meat we [...]

Tomorrow night is our annual crew meal at Sardine Restaurant in Madison. We will all get dressed up and the farm will treat the crew to a fancy, locally sourced meal as we celebrate the season [...]

I know it’s gradual. Just like I know my kids growing up is gradual. Yet sometimes I feel struck by a change that feels sudden. This time of year is the going back to school time, the [...]

This season we have been staffed pretty well and generally able to stay above water – aka not drown in food we can’t harvest. But potatoes, oh potatoes. These have been the major crop [...]

The kids go back to school Thursday. Every year it seems the summer is spread out before us, and then, zip! it’s back to school already. You might think that the kids going back to school [...]

A few months back, a professor reached out asking if they could bring their class to our farm for a visit. The class was a group of divinity students from University of Dubuque Theological [...]

Prepare to cringe a little, but maybe crack a smile too? We just completed another Tuesday morning of corn harvesting. It’s been a difficult year for corn harvesting, as one Saturday night [...]

This weekend we butchered the 39 chickens I raise to nourish our family. It is always a difficult, spiritual experience for me.  I raise these birds from chick to slaughter. I do this because my [...]