Posts Tagged ‘Monica Wiitanen’
North Fork Foods
Making Bread With Bread, and Planting Potatoes Soon after the Colorado Cottage Foods Act was signed, the bakers from Small Potatoes Farm took the County’s Safe Food Handling class, a requirement for working under the Act. We commenced baking in…Click to view post »
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Kittens, Greens and Rumours of Spring Colorado Cottage Foods: Act Two Snowdrops! A sure sign of spring on the way. There they were, in amongst the dried grass under an elderberry bush. Then the white flowers were gone, buried under…Click to view post »
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Kittens in the Woodpile, Politics and Mid-Winter The days are clearly lengthening. February 4th is the crossquarter day, halfway between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. More than likely there will still be plenty of cold, and hopefully, plenty of…Click to view post »
Seed Thoughts For the New Year
A long, drawn-out Spring, short Summer, and very long Fall somehow added up to a year gone by in a flash. And yet, there are so many memories—of good friends, good times, rainbows, sunshine and storms, warmth and cold, Bake…Click to view post »
Cold Weather Doesn’t Stop Farm Production
North Fork Foods In late November not only are yellow leaves clinging to some of the trees, but elms and plums and wisteria still have green leaves. Though there have been frosts and some freezes, salad greens and kale are…Click to view post »
Mulching Root Crops and Thinking of Thanksgiving
Next year’s garlic is safely in its beds until harvest next summer. The new system of preparing for planting by drawing the rake with enhanced tines first along and then across each bed was very efficient. Some years garlic has…Click to view post »
North Fork Foods
Pureeing Tomatoes, Roasting Chilies and Other Fall Food Things Warm sun, a soft breeze, cool nights—it’s a glorious time of year. Invigorating, too. While we never know when the first frost will come, it’s clear that if we still have…Click to view post »
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A monthly column about eating local, farming and related issues The Flavors of Valley Harvest Time Summer seemed to have just kicked in when people were heard saying the mornings were feeling like fall. Those comments started right at the…Click to view post »
A Late, But Wonderful Growing Season
A monthly column about eating local, farming and related issues After months of delectable greens, the sugar snap peas and bunches of baby carrots and beets came as a surprise. Maybe it’s because the weather has stayed relatively cool and…Click to view post »
