Goodness Growing In The Greenhouse!
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All winter long we’ve updated the website occasionally with news or ideas. The pace of posting matched the pace of winter farming. Now, with spring blossoming all around us, it feels like there is so much to share about Little Village Farm’s awakening and not enough time to share all of it with you!
We have been busy here planting, transplanting and weeding (yes – weeding already). The greenhouse is overflowing with, well – green. It makes it all feel real again, this farming thing.
Check it out!
We happened upon a great deal to design t-shirts and love them! We hope you do to and want to wear one around town.
We attempted to hatch 40 baby chicks only to find that the thermometer in the unit was broken and we cooked them instead, eggs that is, not chicks. A new batch are in the incubator with the temperature just right, rotating happily every time the motor clicks on.
All the fields are turned, harrowed, and tilled! Corn and peas are planted.
It’s about to get some kind of crazy around here!!
Headed out to pet the tomatoes…
The Farmer’s Wife
Trees on the Move!
Spring has officially sprung and it is time to get moving - literally! After the flood, Jeremiah said, “Well, we’ll probably never have to live through something like that again but just in case…” and walked away in thought. He never finished his sentence but he … [Read More...]
Growing With Our Farm
This is year three of our little farm, in the village. They say to give any new business five years to flourish, yet it has been our experience that the third year is very telling and often holds a different feel than the two preceding it and, presumably, the two to … [Read More...]
Recipes
Old Bay Green Beans
Ingredients: Olive Oil Green Beans Garlic Old Bay Seasoning Directions: Immerse washed and trimmed green beans into a pot of boiling water for two minutes. Drain. In a fry pan, heat up 2 Tbs olive oil with a clove of garlic. Add green beans and 1 Tbs Old Bay Seasoning. Stir fry [...]
Pasta with Beet Green and Raisins
Ingredients: 8 oz. uncooked pennette (mini penne) ¼ cup of raisins 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil 2 cups coarsely chopped trimmed beet greens 2 teaspoons bottled minced garlic 1/3 cup silvered almonds, toasted ½ teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper Cracked black pepper (optional) Directions: Cook the pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and [...]
