tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9720350730955004962024-03-24T23:09:32.099-07:00Ananda Valley Farm BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-6423327243340333302018-10-16T11:10:00.000-07:002018-10-18T18:22:06.644-07:00Dry farmed cucumbers?While walking around a field that we spread wood chips on, I ran across some volunteer cucumbers growing.<br />
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It is October and it never rains in the summertime, so these cucumbers germinated and grew with no rain and no irrigation, amazing. Also they are deep green and very healthy. The cucumbers in our greenhouse died several weeks ago from powdery mildew. Yet these "field" cukes have no powdery mildew. Maybe a deer ate a large cucumber we threw away and deposited the seeds in a pile of fertilizer? <br />
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Seeing how well these volunteer cukes look, I will try to see how to plant a large bed of dry farmed cucumbers, next year. <br />
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Same cukes as above. Notice the "planting" of cukes on the right is water deprived.<br />
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Our greenhouse cukes died and dried up a few weeks ago due to powdery mildew.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-23020636663295838952018-09-30T16:31:00.002-07:002018-10-18T18:22:30.706-07:00Tilling Wood Chips into Vegetable Fields<br />
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AVF CA HSP Video report Sep2108<br />
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Ananda Valley Farm trialed tilling wood chips into vegetable fields as
part of a California Healthy Soil Program (CA HSP) grant.
This video summarizes the result from the 1st year in September 2018.<br />
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Contrary to much gardening and farming advice to not till wood chips
into beds, we have found it can be beneficial with some caveats.<br />
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As part of our grant, we need to show farmers have seen this video.
Could you add a comment below with your farm name and whether you might
try some of these techniques? THANKS<br />
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Also we will be hosting a Field Tour Oct. 20, 2018 Saturday from 11am to Noon.<br />
You can come by and see how we grow and our trial results in person.<br />
Please rsvp by emailing AnandaValleyFarm@gmail.com.<br />
We are in Half Moon Bay, CA (google maps finds us.)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-45150857623644346102018-08-10T21:58:00.000-07:002018-08-10T21:58:11.627-07:00Aug 2018 unedited update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some unedited videos from July and August are posted at our youtube channel playlist:<br />
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Overall our trials are going well, below are some pictures of what we harvested this week all from beds that had a light layer of wood chips tilled in during the spring. <br />
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Of special note is the Kohlrabi. It was planted in a bed that had a 4-6" mulch layer of Eucalyptus tilled in. The mulch was put in place last July 2017 and then tilled in this spring 2018, so it was aged.<br />
The Kohlrabi loved it, largest one weighed 8.6 lbs. When transplanted we placed about 1 tbsp. of organic 13-0-0 fertilizer with each plant.<br />
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So far it seems the row with a light layer (~1") of wood chips tilled in is doing the best, better than the control row with no wood chips.<br />
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During the unusual spring frosts, we lost almost all of the plants that received chemical fertilizer. The plants that received organic fertilizer only suffered mild frost damage. <br />
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The row with thin layer of fresh Eucalyptus chips mixed in is doing fine. Where a thick layer was mixed in, the plants are not doing well.<br />
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The row with heavy wood chips, was not doing well, lost most plants and replanted. The plants have only greened up in the last week and are much smaller than the others. But it seems they may do OK now, too early to tell.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-22896999961045994082018-04-28T15:24:00.001-07:002018-04-28T15:24:39.066-07:002018 CSA Planting UpdateOur CSA planting is going well although the plants are somewhat behind in their growth because of the unusually cold March we had. We even lost the initial planting of lettuce due to the frosts.<br />
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Our high tunnel is almost fully planted and the tomatoes and cucumbers are coming on nicely.<br />
Last year we finished the high tunnel in late spring. This year we were able to plant much earlier and expect to have cucumbers and tomatoes in June! (This is a big deal for a coastal farmer.)<br />
You are looking at about 230 tomato plants, 130 cucumbers, 360 pepper plants, 100 basils, over 200 sweet potato plantings. Soon to be added about 60 cantaloupes.<br />
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Also we are trying to grow sweet potato greens (not the tubers) in our high tunnel. This is a common food in Asian cultures, hope others like them. Here we are planting cut up sweet potatoes purchased at New Leaf Market in HMB.<br />
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We are planting lots and lots of broccoli this year as part of the CA Healthy Soils Program grant we received. See farm website for an article on it. Here are several broccoli rows with different amounts of wood chips and fertilizer mixed into the soil. There will be over 1,200 broccoli plants growing. Hope you all like broccoli.<br />
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A couple more trays of broccoli growing to plant out the last 2 rows of 7 total for the Healthy Soils trial.<br />
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Here is the green bean patch. Looks like a bunch of weeds doesn't it? Actually it represents the ultimate in restorative agriculture ... no till, no weeding, letting native plants grow alongside your crops.<br />
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We planted perennial green beans here last year and hope they will be able to outgrow the weeds this year on their own. So far it looks good. Here are photos of the beans plants starting to sprout from their tubers.</div>
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Mustard greens will be a new crop addition this year. Currently the flea beetles love them, so they should taste good!<br />
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A long row of zucchini type squash. This year we are trying a couple new varieties in addition to bringing back the Magda variety from last year. There is a big difference in flavor between different varieties of zucchini and squash. If you pay attention to it when eating a medley of different types it becomes quite evident. From the ones we've tried, Magda is tops in flavor so far, but we are still trying new ones.<br />
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Here is Ken, the farm co-manager and overall maintenance and facilities man, keeping our farm/golf carts running.</div>
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Rows of lettuce and baby chard. This year we increased our path width from 2' to 3'. It makes it much more enjoyable for the humans tending the field not to feel crowded when working the rows. Since we have plenty of land, squeezing rows close together isn't necessary.<br />
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Row of Phacelia flowers that will attract bees and beneficial insects when blooming, and should look beautiful also. We will be planting many rows of flowers this year for beauty and bees.<br />
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The Brewster Blackbird here is on bug patrol. We very much appreciate his efforts in eating pillbugs, cucumber beetles and other crop pests. Last year a lady doing PhD research came to the farm to study all the birds. She exclaimed how wonderful it was to have so many birds on a farm, very unusual. We agree, it makes it nice to hear so many of them chirping while working. Now if we could just train the Quail not to eat the young transplants we wouldn't need to put bird netting over most of our plantings.<br />
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Finally for now, here are seedlings waiting to get out into the fields and start growing for you.<br />
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Shows adding in fertilizer to test beds.<br />
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Tilling in the wood chips.<br />
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Our project proposal was accepted to trial adding wood chips to vegetable fields as a way to sequester carbon, reduce greenhouse gases, and increase the soil health and vitality.<br />
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Our creek is overflowing and the wildflowers are at their peak now.</div>
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Hansi, our mascot goose, came to live with us last fall.<br />
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She's enjoying the spring and the the freshly filled pond. <br />
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When working she always comes to keep us company and inspect our work.<br />
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This year she's gotten much more comfortable with us touching her. She really enjoys getting her "spiritual eye" massaged.<br />
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After much uncertainty, we now know that she is a she.<br />
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Anne, our new chicken keeper, shows off Hansi's egg above. Below she's getting a lesson from Ken, one of farm managers, on driving the forklift. </div>
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A new intern, Michele, is helping spread old chicken hay on the fields to help fertilize before the spring planting.<br />
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This year we are continuing to explore methods to farm that improve the soil viability while also producing abundant crops. Spreading a tarp over the ground for a month to eliminate weeds without tilling is one method we are trying this year.<br />
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We also recently purchased some "low-till" soil-friendly, farm implements. This BCS "2-wheel, walk behind tractor" system is used by many small, organic farms. Before we would rototill the beds in the spring to get rid of weeds. The BCS has a small "power harrow" which mixes only the top 2" of the beds to control weeds without pulverizing the soil, like a rototiller does. We plan to never use the rototiller again on the growing beds.<br />
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Notice the size of tractors in the background. They were used on the farm previously when it was a commercial flower farm (that extensively tilled the soil). Does anyone want to buy a tractor?<br />
They are for sale. <br />
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Another way to nourish our soil is we are switching our green bean production over to perennial runner beans. Last year we did a trial and planted, Scarlett Emperor Runner Beans. Everyone who sampled them preferred them to the traditional green beans we grew.<br />
The runner beans grow large tuber roots that will resprout when it gets warm. So now we don't have to till the soil in the bean beds at all. And the beans are so vigorous they will easily outgrow weeds.<br />
The only drawback is they don't produce as much per plant as "commercial varieties" which is why you don't see them in stores. As a small farm with lots of land, we can just plant more to make up for this.<br />
Here's a picture of a Scarlett Emperor Runner Bean root waiting for warmer weather to sprout.<br />
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We have been busy all winter, when the rains allow, building a new high tunnel, hoop house. It will replace the one that blew down last spring. We will grow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, basil,... in here. All the heat loving vegetables that people want.<br />
We specifically chose a high tunnel to withstand high winds.<br />
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We'll need some help in a few weeks to put the plastic on. Let us know if you'd like to come help. We'll have to pick a calm, non-windy day.<br />
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A racoon was getting into our chicken coop. We tried to trap him, but it didn't work out as planned. A smelly experience for everyone involved.<br />
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We've planted a lot of flowers around the pond area this last year. Here's Lisa and some volunteers planting Pink Lady Belledonnas around the pond, with Hansi in the middle supervising.<br />
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It's time to sign up for the CSA. If you are interested sign up early. We are limiting the boxes to only 75 this year, so we expect to sell out early. As a reminder what our boxes look like, here's pictures from the last week in 2016.<br />
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Joyful blessings from the entire farm team.<br />
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Our farm interns all enjoy eating this vegetable. In fact when they go out into the field to pick something for dinner they almost always choose the wild amaranth over kale or Swiss Chard.<br />
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Here's what we wrote about preparing it last year. <br />
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Here's a simple way to use wild amaranth to spruce up a grilled cheese sandwich.<br />
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Cut up every part into fine pieces, stalk, flowers, leaves -- it is all good. Separate the large stalk pieces from the leaves. The stalk takes about an extra 2 minutes to cook. So put them in a frying pan first with about 1" of water. Cook with lid on for several minutes until soft. Prepare one side of sandwich at same time.<br />
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And they let us know it!<br />
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This year we decided to go entirely spray-free, pesticide-free in our fields.<br />
Being organic certified we have never used synthetic pesticides in our field.<br />
Last year we did use neem oil, a natural pesticide.<br />
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However, we want to be completely free of all pesticides in an effort to grow more in harmony with the land and to protect the bees and the biological life of our soil.<br />
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Most farms, including organic, use some pesticides to control bugs. If you read modern organic farming magazines they are filled with new pesticides that have been developed that meet "organic standards" while delivering chemical lethality.<br />
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Part of the joy of being a zero-pesticide farm is you will receive, from time to time, a bug in your box. Or even many bugs. Don't worry, it is a sign you are receive toxic-free food for yourself and family. When food looks too good and clean then usually you might also be receiving residual pesticides.<br />
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Our produce will also have many "chew marks" showing where bugs have feasted ... they really think our produce is good and healthy!<br />
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Pillbugs really had a banquet on our Daikon radishes. It's the first time we grew them and we almost didn't put them in the boxes ... they were so unsightly. However, in they went ... sticking to earth friendly ideals. If you get such as daikon, just remember it means they were grown in biologically alive soil with no poisons! Just make extra use of a knife and peeler to "sculpt" out the good parts.</div>
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It is the first time we have grown this. Next week the other half of subscribers will get one.<br />
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There are many youtube videos on preparing it in various fashions.<br />
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You need to peel off the tough skin to get to the tasty interior.</div>
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First "peel" with a large knife.</div>
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Then a regular potato peeler can get any remaining hard skin.</div>
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Some people do sticks that are then eaten raw. </div>
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This diced kohlrabi can be added raw to salads, eaten plain or cooked. </div>
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Sauteing taste very good.</div>
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Taste is similar to broccoli stems.</div>
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The interns were having fun packing your vegetables this week.</div>
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Claudia especially enjoyed this funny looking carrot.</div>
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Ringing the bell for our daily noon meditation, right after packing.</div>
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We had to move the location of our Via Uno location rack up against the fence where there is shade.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-6332797622381422902016-05-26T19:19:00.002-07:002016-05-26T19:33:06.367-07:00Yikes this food is so ugly!<br />
Here at Ananda Valley Farm we support the ugly food movement!<br />
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This means everything we grow, we will put in your box, regardless of conventional standards of visual appeal. In Europe there is a real "ugly food movement" where groceries will sell these "seconds" at a discount. In America it hasn't caught on yet, instead sadly, about 1/3rd of all produce is thrown away at the farm because it doesn't look uniform enough.<br />
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<a href="http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html">http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html</a><br />
<a href="http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/whole-foods-ugly-fruit-vegetables/">http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/whole-foods-ugly-fruit-vegetables/</a><br />
<a href="http://time.com/3761942/why-people-are-falling-in-love-with-ugly-food/">http://time.com/3761942/why-people-are-falling-in-love-with-ugly-food/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/04/ugly-food-startup/80815244/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/04/ugly-food-startup/80815244/</a><br />
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Lettuce deserves a special discussion. We've decided to include almost all the lettuce heads without extensive pruning or cleaning. So you'll probably be getting ones looking like this and maybe even a little dirtier.<br />
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Typically lettuce going to a grocery store or farmer's market would be extensively "pruned" as above. The outer layers of leaves would be removed, many times over half the total lettuce head would be tossed to get down to the pristine leaves inside.<br />
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However these outer leaves are still great. Usually it is just the edges that are browned.<br />
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You can just cut off the brown edges and be left with a great tasting and looking leaf. So by including these outer leaves the amount of good lettuce we can deliver to you increases significantly.</div>
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We just finished our first harvests and packings!<br />
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Counting peas. Please don't cook these peas, they taste much better raw. The farm crew is trying to only pick the big ones right after they plump out and have the maximum sugar content.</div>
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Notice every box isn't the same. Sometimes, especially early in the season, we'll have some of a vegetable but not enough for every box. This year if we have enough for half the boxes we'll include it and then the next time the other half will get it. This week only the coastsiders received radishes, so the next radish crop will go to the subscribers "over the hill" as people in Half Moon Bay refer to the valley. The valley subscribers this week though did get some squash instead.</div>
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Asha asked "what is this???" holding a star zucchini squash. We'll be planting more of these. Most people think they taste better and the plants grow lower to the ground and so don't get blown away in the strong coastal winds.</div>
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<u>Next week preview</u><br />
Next week we'll probably be harvesting: Lettuce, Swiss Chard, Kale, Peas, Squash<br />
and we might harvest, depending on sunlight: beets, carrots, kohlrabi, wild Indian spinach<br />
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Thanks for all the nice comments many of you have sent. We especially liked this one:<br />
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<i>"We just picked up our first box, and happened to meet the farmer
himself at the East West Bookstore. I think you and he both would have
been amused to see us when we got home. My two little boys promptly
starting eating everything straight from the box. Carrots, peas, and
lettuce down the hatch, dirt and all. They were delighted with it all.
Not their usual reaction to vegetables! They did eventually decide that
chard, beets, and squash probably ought to be cooked first, which is
good because I am looking forward to using those for dinner! Thanks
again for sharing your magnificent produce with us." ~ Holly B., Santa
Clara</i><br />
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Happy Harvests,<br />
AVF Team<br />
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Farm interns Claudia and Andrew. Andrew just came to spend a month with us from Canada. He's looking to learn all about organic farming/<br />
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Greg, the farm's first coastside subscriber, is the first one to pick up his box at the farm.</div>
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Bird troubles follow up. The last protective measure worked and kept our very intelligent farm birds away from the pumpkin seeds. I did have to add wood to the outside of the sheets as the first time the sheets went up the bird pecked several small holes through it. Luckily not big enough to get through. But without the wood outside I'm sure the bird would have gotten through. Next year we'll need to find a more elegant solution.<br />
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Final score: Farmer 1, Bird 6<br />
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It's time for the first harvest of 2016 at the farm!<br />
We'll be picking, packing, and delivering boxes this week.<br />
If you would like to help out, come out to the farm either Tuesday or Thursday morning. <br />
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First week box should contain:<br />
Green Butterhead Lettuce Heads<br />
Toscano Kale<br />
Red Radishes<br />
Carrots<br />
Swiss Chard<br />
Sugar Snap Peas (just a few)<br />
Red Beets<br />
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The first few weeks will be leaner than the more abundant harvests to come.<br />
This spring has had extra challenges with strong cold winds, slowing down the crops.<br />
We are learning which crops are most "wind resistant" and which ones are not. <br />
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The first harvest of Sugar Snap Peas. We'll just have a few in each box as a treat, as they are very labor intensive to pick and the wind has limited their production. These are best just eaten raw right away.<br />
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Green butterheads will be the first to go into the boxes. We are also growing green romaine, red butterhead, and red oakleaf. We've tried several new varieties this year to make sure we get the best tasting lettuce. In particular we are trying new red lettuces, since last year we were quite disappointed with the taste of the red (albeit beautiful looking) lettuce we grew. Of the 3 reds being tried, 2 of them taste great, while one of them turned out bitter (phew! had worried all 3 would be bitter). About 150 heads of this bitter lettuce will be fed to the chickens, who probably will consider them a gourmet treat.<br />
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Red Oakleaf lettuce transplants on their way to the field.<br />
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Some of the harvests that our interns are living off of. You'll be getting these peas, carrots and radishes in the first box. It will be a little while longer before the squash plants are producing enough for all the boxes.<br />
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What's a normal carrot: 1 head 2 legs, 2 heads 1 leg, or 1 head 1 leg ??????<br />
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We've been putting bamboo stakes around the broccoli and cauliflower to keep the winds from snapping them. Even so the winds are taking a toll on the early plantings. Even if the wind doesn't snap the stems, it can stress the plants enough to cause them to go to seed or flower too early before a head of broccoli or cauliflower has formed.<br />
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This row of Kohlrabi has withstood he winds admirably. We'll be growing more of this in the early spring season going forward. And we'll include some easy recipes for cooking this unusually looking, but tasty vegetable.<br />
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Assembling boxes, we needed a lot more this year!<br />
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Sage, one of the interns, decided this was the season for a crew cut; Master Barber Cain officiating.<br />
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We had a few warm days this spring.<br />
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Laxmi has returned this year to look after the chickens. She loves them and they love her.<br />
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Colorful eggs on a cool, misty morning.<br />
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Enjoying a new bench by the yurt.<br />
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This group of Saturday morning volunteers are planting more Cali lilies at the end of the pond.<br />
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Bird troubles. A very bright bird snacked on most of our pumpkin and hard squash seeds before they got a chance to sprout. After losing the first planting, I put some totes over the seedling trays. The bird promptly went under the totes and ate the seeds again. Farmer 0, bird 2. <br />
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To protect the pumpkin seeds, I built a cage around the trays and covered it with bird mesh. The bird promptly poked a hole in it and ate the seeds. Farmer 0, bird 3.<br />
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Next I reinforced the cage with steel mesh. The bird promptly found a 1/2 inch opening between the table and base of the cage. Farmer 0, bird 4.<br />
I put some wood stakes around the base to cover the 1/2 inch opening. The bird pushed them aside an ate the seeds again. Farmer 0, bird 5.<br />
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This should work ... Put thick electrical tape all around the base to cover the hole, no way a bird can peck through this.<br />
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No need to peck through, the bird just peeled it off. Farmer 0, bird 6.<br />
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Well, I forgot to take a picture, but yesterday I put a bed sheet under the trays and tied it up around the sides, not way to remove it. The bird could possibly poke a hole through it ... I'll find out tomorrow when I return to the farm.<br />
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Last year we sprayed neem oil, an organic pesticide made from neem trees, to control flea beetles and aphids.<br />
This year we are going entirely "no spray", "no pesticide". Not even organic ones.<br />
So if you get some "holy" Bok Choy or a few aphids with your kale and cabbage, realize that you are getting healthy, pesticide-free produce. Our soil, the bees, (and hopefully you!) will appreciate this earth friendly approach.<br />
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The neighboring farm spraying herbicides (and probably also pesticides) on their field. Their plants now look great, no pests, no weeds, just unseen toxins are included. We've decided including unseen toxins is too high a price for clean looking vegetables.<br />
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A swarm of bees formed around the orchard, hopefully they'll find a permanent residence nearby.<br />
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When driving into the farm one morning, a quail family decided to run out into the road, in front of oncoming traffic.<br />
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Plenty of long rows of zucchini and yellow squash are growing.<br />
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We'll have plenty of summer squash, even though the wind has blown a few away. The plant by my foot was snapped n the wind.<br />
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We've learned that the low growing star shaped summer squash, doesn't get damaged by wind. Luckily the star squash also taste better, so we'll be planting many more of these this year and in the future.<br />
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Cali lilly flowers bloomed profusely during our wet spring.<br />
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A scene from our spring grotto where water percolates up.<br />
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The wet spring allowed the California Poppies to flourish this year.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-20602678512922150142016-05-08T17:28:00.003-07:002016-05-08T17:28:59.000-07:00Dirt Makes You HappyHere's an article that Amara found. Amara is an avid gardener who is growing the heirloom tomatoes for the CSA at the Ananda community in Mountain View and she takes care of farm's 2+ year old fruit tree orchard.<br />
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Next time you are feeling less than happy, come out to a Saturday farm volunteer day at 9:30am. The research says you'll feel better for 3 weeks afterwards!<br />
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Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy</h1>
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<span id="authorname">By Bonnie L. Grant</span><br />
Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil
microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and are
without side effects and chemical dependency potential. Learn how to
harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and
healthier. Read on to see how dirt makes you happy.<br />
Natural remedies have been around for untold centuries. These natural
remedies included cures for almost any physical ailment as well as
mental and emotional afflictions. Ancient healers may not have known why
something worked but simply that it did. Modern scientists have
unraveled the why of many medicinal plants and practices but only
recently are they finding remedies that were previously unknown and yet,
still a part of the natural life cycle. Soil microbes and human health
now have a positive link which has been studied and found to be
verifiable.<br />
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Soil Microbes and Human Health</h2>
Did you know that there’s a natural antidepressant in soil? It’s true. <em>Mycobacterium vaccae</em>
is the substance under study and has indeed been found to mirror the
effect on neurons that drugs like Prozac provide. The bacterium is found
in soil and may stimulate serotonin production, which makes you relaxed
and happier. Studies were conducted on cancer patients and they
reported a better quality of life and less stress.<br />
Lack of serotonin has been linked to depression, anxiety, obsessive
compulsive disorder and bipolar problems. The bacterium appears to be a
natural antidepressant in soil and has no adverse health effects. These
antidepressant microbes in soil may be as easy to use as just playing in
the dirt.<br />
Most avid gardeners will tell you that their landscape is their
“happy place” and the actual physical act of gardening is a stress
reducer and mood lifter. The fact that there is some science behind it
adds additional credibility to these garden addicts’ claims. The
presence of a soil bacteria antidepressant is not a surprise to many of
us who have experienced the phenomenon ourselves. Backing it up with
science is fascinating, but not shocking, to the happy gardener.<br />
Mycobacterium antidepressant microbes in soil are also being
investigated for improving cognitive function, Crohn’s disease and even
rheumatoid arthritis.<br />
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How Dirt Makes You Happy</h2>
Antidepressant microbes in soil cause cytokine levels to rise, which
results in the production of higher levels of serotonin. The bacterium
was tested both by injection and ingestion on rats and the results were
increased cognitive ability, lower stress and better concentration to
tasks than a control group.<br />
Gardeners inhale the bacteria, have topical contact with it and get
it into their bloodstreams when there is a cut or other pathway for
infection. The natural effects of the soil bacteria antidepressant can
be felt for up to 3 weeks if the experiments with rats are any
indication. So get out and play in the dirt and improve your mood and
your life.<br />
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Soil.
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By Bonnie L. Grant
Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil
microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and are
without side effects and chemical dependency potential. Learn how to
harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and
healthier. Read on to see how dirt makes you happy.
Natural remedies have been around for untold centuries. These natural
remedies included cures for almost any physical ailment as well as
mental and emotional afflictions. Ancient healers may not have known why
something worked but simply that it did. Modern scientists have
unraveled the why of many medicinal plants and practices but only
recently are they finding remedies that were previously unknown and yet,
still a part of the natural life cycle. Soil microbes and human health
now have a positive link which has been studied and found to be
verifiable.<br /><br /> Read more at Gardening Know How: Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy <a href="http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm">http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm</a></div>
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Antidepressant Microbes
In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy
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Soil.
Image by amoceptum
By Bonnie L. Grant
Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil
microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and are
without side effects and chemical dependency potential. Learn how to
harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and
healthier. Read on to see how dirt makes you happy.
Natural remedies have been around for untold centuries. These natural
remedies included cures for almost any physical ailment as well as
mental and emotional afflictions. Ancient healers may not have known why
something worked but simply that it did. Modern scientists have
unraveled the why of many medicinal plants and practices but only
recently are they finding remedies that were previously unknown and yet,
still a part of the natural life cycle. Soil microbes and human health
now have a positive link which has been studied and found to be
verifiable.<br /><br /> Read more at Gardening Know How: Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy <a href="http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm">http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm</a></div>
<div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">
Antidepressant Microbes
In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy
Printer Friendly Version
Soil.
Image by amoceptum
By Bonnie L. Grant
Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil
microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and are
without side effects and chemical dependency potential. Learn how to
harness the natural antidepressant in soil and make yourself happier and
healthier. Read on to see how dirt makes you happy.
Natural remedies have been around for untold centuries. These natural
remedies included cures for almost any physical ailment as well as
mental and emotional afflictions. Ancient healers may not have known why
something worked but simply that it did. Modern scientists have
unraveled the why of many medicinal plants and practices but only
recently are they finding remedies that were previously unknown and yet,
still a part of the natural life cycle. Soil microbes and human health
now have a positive link which has been studied and found to be
verifiable.
Soil Microbes and Human Health
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Did you know that there’s a natural antidepressant in soil? It’s true.
Mycobacterium vaccae is the substance under study and has indeed been
found to mirror the effect on neurons that drugs like Prozac provide.
The bacterium is found in soil and may stimulate serotonin production,
which makes you relaxed and happier. Studies were conducted on cancer
patients and they reported a better quality of life and less stress.
Lack of serotonin has been linked to depression, anxiety, obsessive
compulsive disorder and bipolar problems. The bacterium appears to be a
natural antidepressant in soil and has no adverse health effects. These
antidepressant microbes in soil may be as easy to use as just playing in
the dirt.
Most avid gardeners will tell you that their landscape is their “happy
place” and the actual physical act of gardening is a stress reducer and
mood lifter. The fact that there is some science behind it adds
additional credibility to these garden addicts’ claims. The presence of a
soil bacteria antidepressant is not a surprise to many of us who have
experienced the phenomenon ourselves. Backing it up with science is
fascinating, but not shocking, to the happy gardener.
Mycobacterium antidepressant microbes in soil are also being
investigated for improving cognitive function, Crohn’s disease and even
rheumatoid arthritis.
How Dirt Makes You Happy
Antidepressant microbes in soil cause cytokine levels to rise, which
results in the production of higher levels of serotonin. The bacterium
was tested both by injection and ingestion on rats and the results were
increased cognitive ability, lower stress and better concentration to
tasks than a control group.
Gardeners inhale the bacteria, have topical contact with it and get it
into their bloodstreams when there is a cut or other pathway for
infection. The natural effects of the soil bacteria antidepressant can
be felt for up to 3 weeks if the experiments with rats are any
indication. So get out and play in the dirt and improve your mood and
your life.
Watch this video about how gardening makes you happy:
Resources:
“Identification of an Immune-Responsive Mesolimbocortical Serotonergic
System: Potential Role in Regulation of Emotional Behavior,” by
Christopher Lowry et al., published online on March 28, 2007 in
Neuroscience.
http://www.sage.edu/newsevents/news/?story_id=240785
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/sites/default/files/images/gg607.pdf
(pg 12)
Mind & Brain/Depression and Happiness – Raw Data “Is Dirt the New
Prozac?” by Josie Glausiusz, Discover Magazine, July 2007 Issue.
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/raw-data-is-dirt-the-new-prozac
<br /><br /> Read more at Gardening Know How: Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Dirt Makes You Happy <a href="http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm">http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm</a></div>
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As our small
vegetable farm enters its 3<sup>rd</sup> season, we’ve honed in on growing the best
tasting vegetables we can for our customers.</div>
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When we
started our farm, it was a big question mark what type of farm we should be,
what to grow, where to sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An attempt
to grow vegetables for the wholesale market was a useful, but costly education.
We simply didn’t have the necessary scale of efficiency.</div>
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Providing a
weekly vegetable CSA (community supported agriculture) box directly to
subscribers was the path chosen. There are many CSAs in the USA now, were
customers pay at the beginning of the season and then receive a box of
vegetables each week. It’s a great way to get fresh produce from local farms.</div>
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Customers in
California have many CSA options. Many farms will grow some of their own food
and also buy food from other farms or the wholesale market to put in their
boxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some farms will deliver from
over a hundred miles away. Some do home deliveries, some use drop off points. </div>
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What niche
could we fill in that would be useful to customers compared to the wide variety
of options customers have?</div>
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Quickly we
decided to provide the best tasting vegetables within the constraints of
economic sustainability.</div>
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What does it take to grow great tasting vegetables?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are four basic ingredients and one extra secret ingredient. The
four basic ingredients are: </div>
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<li> Freshness</li>
<li> Plant Variety</li>
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Let’s look
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<u>Freshness</u></div>
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Any backyard
gardener will tell you how much better a just picked vegetable tastes than the
exact same variety bought in a store which was picked a week or two
earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of our produce is picked
and delivered to customers within 24 hours. This means we have to grow all our
vegetables. Buying from another farm and repackaging it adds at least days to
the turnaround. We harvest most of the produce in the cool evening and some
early the next day. It’s then packed and shipped by afternoon. This limits our
distribution range, we can’t deliver a hundred miles away. And growing all our
own, limits how much we can sell to just what we grow. Focusing on freshness
limits our potential expansion, but provides local customers with the freshest
possible produce.</div>
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<u>Variety</u></div>
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This is a
big one. Most Americans have grown up on rather taste-free vegetables. The
vegetables serve more as backdrops to seasoning and sauces rather than their
rightful place as the source of flavor.</div>
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How did this
happen? Why wouldn’t farms grow for taste? Certainly customers prefer it.
Unfortunately vegetables are purchased on sight and cost, not taste. Customers
can’t taste them first. Even if they could taste a small fresh sample, this
wouldn’t be enough. Most vegetables need to be cooked first for their full
flavor to emerge. Talented plant breeders of modern commercial varieties, focus
on good looks, fast growing, and disease resistance. Flavor doesn’t sell, so it’s
traded away.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As backyard gardeners running our farm, we
know many good tasting varieties. Also, we’ve been trying many different
varieties of all the vegetables to make sure we grow the most flavorful ones
regardless of their looks. After two years of this, an interesting, and in
hindsight expected, observation can be made:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">slower growing, less
attractive vegetables are tastier!</i></div>
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Why would
this be? Without having a PhD in the plant biology of taste, one can only
speculate. Many slower growing varieties have deeper root systems. These deeper
roots can mine more minerals and nutrients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then taking more time to grow, a more complex flavor emerges. In
comparison, a shallow rooted, fast growing plant, tastes watery and bland.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take cauliflower for example, we typically
grow a variety that takes 80 days to mature. It’s a big plant with a large root
system, and has a medium sized head. Last year, late season, we grew a fast
variety, only took 50 days to mature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
had a surprisingly small body and large head. To me it looked like an alien
mutant you’d see on an old science fiction movie. I could see why it was a
favorite with commercial farmers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
smaller body meant you could grow them closer together. Overall, you can get 3x
the harvest from this variety. No wonder most farms choose it. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, after we put it in the boxes, my
wife cooked it and I became ashamed we included it. By comparison it was bland;
not at all what we wanted to be doing. Fortunately, since it was fresh and
grown in good soil, it still tasted better than store bought ones and some
customers even complimented it. But I knew it was far from what we should have
been serving.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same goes for Broccoli, many customers
have mentioned they never liked Broccoli before they cooked ours. We’ve settled
on two varieties, one takes 90 days to mature, the other 66 days. This compares
to a common commercial variety that takes 49 days.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snap peas and snap beans are both
vegetables whose taste has almost been eviscerated commercially. I’ve grown
backyard vegetables for over two decades mainly to get good tasting peas and
beans. Commercial farms all plant bush peas and beans that all mature at the
same time and are machine harvested. Very efficient and keeps the price low. The
older pole varieties have deeper roots and mature over an extended time. They
have to be manually harvested often, so few, not even small market farmers,
will grow them. But they taste great! This year will be growing Sugar Snap peas
and Scarlet Emperor Runner beans, the tastiest varieties that will grow in our
climate. Hopefully we’ll have enough labor to harvest them, otherwise we’ll
invite volunteers to pick them for a portion of the crop.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are taking a chance on Kale this year.
Last year we grew Ripor a beautiful “frilly” type you see in stores often. Two
different seed catalogs have stated, though, that White Russian Kale is the
tastiest. It doesn’t look as good, but we have switched over to it. Hope the
catalogs are right.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For cucumbers we’ve settled on an older
variety, Marketmore 76. We’ll keep trying others, but we’ve already tried
Corinato, Diva, Marketmore 97, … These other varieties look great, have almost
perfect figures with uniform dark color, like they’ve just stepped out of a
tanning salon. They look good on store shelves and if you eat them, they taste
great. But if you eat them next to a Marketmore 76, the 76 will taste even
greater and your opinion of the others will drop.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zucchinis:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This year, half of our plantings are Costata Romanesco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s what Johnny’s Seed Catalog says:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Traditional Italian Heirloom with the best
flavor … with only half the yield of hybrids, but much better flavor, … nutty
and delicious.” The catalog lists 10 other zucchinis, not one of the other
descriptions even mentions taste, just how prolific and attractive they are.
Hopefully the Romanesco’s will grow well enough in our cooler climate.</div>
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Our variety
trails and explorations go on and will continue as we continue to hone in on
the best tasting varieties for each vegetable we grow. We do need to warn our
new CSA subscribers, that some members have told us they don’t enjoy going out
to restaurants as much anymore. Now they pay attention to how the vegetables
taste and are usually disappointed at restaurants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cook at home more often now.</div>
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The health
of the soil probably makes a big impact on flavor. Having biologically alive
soil with lots of organic matter should result in happier plants developing
more complex flavors. While I’ve never seen a definitive study, most long term
gardeners correlate great soil with great taste.</div>
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A lot of
media discusses sustainable farming. To truly discuss sustainable you need to
include “at what soil vitality level”. On one extreme you can say hydroponic
greenhouses are sustainable, yet they don’t even grow in soil or organic
matter. They use liquid, petroleum derived fertilizers and grow in inert
mediums that have no alive biology. Yet you could state they are sustainable.
We probably will never run out of enough petroleum products to produce
fertilizer. Also many Midwest farms, where the topsoil has been severely
eroded, can also be “sustainable”. Their soil is virtually lifeless from
tilling, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers, just like growing
hydroponically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be sustained as
long a petroleum and gas based chemicals are available, which currently seems
not to be a concern.</div>
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On the other
extreme, the most biologically alive soil is usually in backyard gardens that
use no-till, heavy mulch, organic techniques. The soil contains multitudes of
worms, insects, microbes, ….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It produces
great tasting, nutritious vegetables. However, these techniques haven’t proved
to be economically sustainable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes
too much labor to establish these growing beds and the plethora of insects
typically munch down any small transplants or direct seeded vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple market farms I visited or read
about, use no-till and add a layer of compost each year to the bed. They try to
completely eliminate weeds and don’t use cover crops. Their soil is quite
alive, but it’ hard to say whether it is “more alive” than a bed that has a
variety of weeds growing along with the main crop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One farm even grows in weeds, soils great,
harvests though aren’t an example of good economic sustainability.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our own approach to soil vitality is
evolving. Originally we tried no-till, but the weeds got to be too many and
just putting down finished compost lead to a reduction in worms. Worms need
uncomposted organic matter to feed on. Currently we are cover cropping over the
winter and then doing a light/shallow till in the spring. We add about an inch
of wood chips before tilling. After the shallow till, we mulch with an inch of
compost and wood chips mixed at a 2:1 ratio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The wood chips attract worms. A Cornell University 15-year study looked
at the differences between cover cropping, adding wood chips and doing nothing
to improve soil each year. Interestingly, adding wood chips did more to improve
the soil than traditional covering cropping. Yields were slightly higher,
organic matter more, and the worm count was several times more. Our goal is to
have biological alive soil with many worms in it all year round.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Virtually all farms, organic included,
don’t have worms in the soil during the main growing season. The big organic
farms, like Earthbound and Lakeside Organics, have really developed cost
efficient methods for growing organically, which is a great contribution. A
recent study showed that 4 out of 10 nursing mothers in America have Roundup, a
chemical herbicide/weed killer, in their breast milk. So having inexpensive
organic produce available is a great contribution to society.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The soil vitality at the large organic
farms though is actually quite low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
won’t find one worm in them during the growing season. A typical procedure is
to heavily till the soil and flame to eliminate all weeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then organic fertilizer is applied and a thin
1/8” layer of compost spread. The compost isn’t to increase the organic matter
in the soil, it primarily reintroduces biological life/microbes back into the
soil that can then break down the fertilizer for the plants. The procedure is
just repeated for each crop. The soil doesn’t improve, and actually loses
organic matter over time, but it is an organic method and is very efficient.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For our soil, we hope that every shovelful
of dirt will have worms in it all year round. We’re not there yet, but striving
towards it.</div>
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<u>Climate</u></div>
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For many
crops climate, notable heat or cold, makes the fruit sweeter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oranges need heat, whereas crops like
broccoli, chard, and kale get sweeter with cold weather. Given we can’t change
the weather, we work with what it gives us.</div>
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What about
the secret ingredient?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it’s the
most important one—too important to discuss only at the end of an article. It deserves
a full article to itself. Once written, we’ll post it on our farm blog at: <a href="http://www.anandavalleyfarm.com/">www.AnandaValleyFarm.com</a>.</div>
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Farming
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It's been a busy month at the farm preparing for our first harvest in May.<br />
Seeds typically need to be planted 3-4 months in advance of harvest.<br />
Right now, many thousands of plants are growing for our CSA subscribers.<br />
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This year at the farm, every Saturday is a Volunteer Day!<br />
So if you ever wanted to be a farmer for half a day, come on out.<br />
Full details at <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Saturday-Farm-Volunteer-Days/" target="_blank"> Saturday Farm Volunteer Days</a> <br />
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Here's one of our Saturday volunteer crews transplanting out Kale seedlings.<br />
It's fun to see Bay Area urbanites enjoying back-to-dirt work.<br />
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These volunteers planted pink lady flower bulbs above the pond. </div>
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This Indian couple had never been to a farm before, they enjoyed holding<br />
a chicken (and shovel) for the first time.<br />
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These ladies are planting Swiss Chard seedlings. Farm dress can include painted nails and high-fashion boots! <br />
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This group's transplanting the beautiful white calla lily flowers that grow wild at the farm.<br />
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Here's a helper and Cain planting Sunflowers and Cosmos around the vegetable field. They should look gorgeous in mid-summer and they'll attract bees and beneficial insects.<br />
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On this workday, we mulched the orchard trees with wood chips.<br />
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Here's a load Saha is driving up the hill to the orchard.</div>
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Putting them in wheelbarrows for the manual laborers to move to the trees.<br />
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After that heavy duty wood chip spreading day, one our wheelbarrows gave out. Luckily farm supporter, <a href="http://heatherlussier.com/" target="_blank">Heather Lussier</a> (a Certified Professional Photographer) donated a new one to the farm.<br />
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This bobcat has been sighted on a neighboring field, undoubtedly hunting gophers.<br />
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Here's one reason Ananda eggs taste so good. Ananda chickens get to free range by a pond, amongst the flowers, and in the vision of our outdoor altar.<br />
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Our old chicken coop was too small and needed to be moved out of the field to make room for more vegetable planting. It was a two-tractor job.<br />
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rotted pine wood stakes and pounded them into a hoop house growing beds.</div>
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They will rot in the ground, providing food for worms and microbes. </div>
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Ultimately turning into compost and fertilizer for the plants.</div>
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In our hoop house we've added a lot of wood chip mulch to help improve the soil. <br />
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Worms love wood chips. Can you spot the worm in this picture? It's at about 11 o'clock just above the tomato seedling.<br />
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Notice the worm holes in this picture. These worm holes provide an ideal growing chamber for plant roots. They allow oxygen into the ground and they stay moist and best of all the worm leaves it's fertilizer rich castings around the inside of the hole. It's the ideal condition for a plant root to grow into.</div>
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Here's an up-close photo of a root growing in a worm hole.<br />
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A big disadvantage of wood chips is that they provide an ideal habitat for pill bugs aka rollypollies.<br />
Here's a horde of them devouring our recent squash transplant<br />
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This guilty rollypollie just felled a tomato transplant by munching around its base.</div>
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For his crime, he was tossed out into the field.</div>
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To protect our seedlings for the munching pill bug hordes, we had to rake back the wood chip mulch.</div>
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Interesting fact: pill bugs have gills and need moist ground to breathe. So they can't stay on dry surface ground for too long. When the plants get bigger we'll try raking the wood chips back. </div>
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After all our efforts to get a good crop of tomatoes & squash growing in our hoop house, nature and in particular the last storm had other plans. Oh well, we did need bigger greenhouse growing area for our expanding CSA, guess it is time to build one (donations gladly accepted!).<br />
Many cool weather farmers cover the soil of their beds with black plastic. This helps heat and keep the soil warm, allowing them to plant hot weather loving plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, ...<br />
For the time being we'll be doing the same.<br />
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May we all rise on the winds of change!<br />
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We have started preparing the fields and planting for the 2016 CSA Season.<br />
First delivery is scheduled for the first week in May.<br />
This year we are planting enough to double our subscribers,<br />
but we still expect to sell out, so signup early!<br />
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Here the cover crops are being tilled into the soil.<br />
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We are trying different methods of cover cropping to help improve the soil. This shows where we planted fava & bell beans in the beds and oats in the pathways (also shows many volunteer weeds!). We'll probably use this method for the entire field next year.<br />
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On some beds, we just let the broccoli keep growing. We were able to harvest side shoots all winter from these beds. Now it's time to start fresh so they are being put into the soil.<br />
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We use a low-till approach and only till 3" deep. But that's enough to chop up the plants, so the worms in the ground can feast on them.<br />
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The seedling tables have been increased and the first seedling trays seeded. Here's the first trays on the old heating mats we used last year. They are way too small for the 150 subscribers we expect this year. <br />
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So we got some new professional ones, that can hold up to 12 trays. Our most common tray holds 338 seedlings. Here you see 4,732 seeds planted! They first sit on the heating mat for 5-7 days until they germinate.<br />
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After they germinate, they get moved to the unheated table inside, next they'll go to the outside seedling table.<br />
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How's this for an "infinity photo". Sahadev was teaching me to make photos more mysterious, show bends, don't show beginnings or endings,...<br />
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Oops! What happened here, only 1/2 the seeds germinated? These seeds were from last year. This shows why professional farms always use new seeds every year. We are learning.<br />
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Everyone asked for more carrots this year. Last year we planted each seed by hand, very impractical and unsustainable. We brought this precision seeder, with it we planted over 3,000 carrot seeds in less than an hour. By hand it would have taken over 10 hours.<br />
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We'll use this Jang Seeder for planting carrots, beets, and bok choy directly in the field. All the other plants will be transplanted from trays.<br />
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With our expansion, we need more growing fields. Cain here is working late at night to plow up another field for us to grow in.<br />
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In order to help improve the soil, when preparing this new field, we plowed in about 3" of wood chips. This adds a lot of organic matter that will break down over time and they greatly increase the worm population.<br />
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We bought several park benches to put around the farm so people can sit outside and enjoy the beautiful serenity of the farm. We carefully choose the benches so you could sit back and relax in them comfortably, while also you can sit up in them straight and meditate comfortably.<br />
Here you see Cain and Saha getting the fork lift stuck in the mud. It took a tractor to pull it out.<br />
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Heathers and Oxalis are in full bloom now.<br />
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Our last box of the season is this week and we've been discussing what to do with all the green tomatoes still on the vine. We might just put them in the boxes for fun.</div>
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So if you've never had green fried tomatoes, here's an easy breakfast dish with them. </div>
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Slice them all up.<br />
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Fry them covered on medium heat for about 6 minutes.<br />
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Crack a couple eggs over the top, cover and let the eggs cook.<br />
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This dish won't win any beauty contests, but it does leave you wanting more.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-84381966767022795362015-11-13T11:34:00.001-08:002015-11-17T10:33:23.942-08:00Food Waste<br />
After talking with many of our subscribers this year, we've heard some of you can't finish all the food and it feels wasteful.<br />
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We sent out a letter to our subscribers on this topic. It can be read here:<br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CY2RYn3LTkaXBHazF5T0p3ZVk/view?usp=sharing">Letter about food waste</a> <br />
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In summary though:<br />
In the normal food system 52% of all vegetable produce is wasted going from<br />
the fields, to a distributor, to a supermarket, to your refrigerator, to your fork.<br />
See: <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf">http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf</a><br />
or: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CY2RYn3LTkTmpJeVJUS3IxX2s/view?usp=sharing">here</a><br />
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At Ananda Valley Farm we waste virtually none of the produce we grow, it all either goes to our subscribers, used by volunteers, or is donated to charities.<br />
<br />So even if you are not able to use up to 1/2 of your box, it is still wasting less than purchasing food through a supermarket.<br />
<br />Joyful Cheers,<br />
AVF Team<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-822310003779761532015-11-13T11:03:00.000-08:002015-11-13T11:52:08.543-08:00Box Value<br />
The harvests this year in November and October have been abundant. Usually October is the month everything tapers off. Our warm fall has extended many of the crops.<br />
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We decided to see what the value of our boxes were compared to shopping at Whole Foods.<br />
Since we had posted pictures for two weeks of boxes in October, we used these ones to compare.<br />
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You can see & download the full spreadsheet analysis at:<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CY2RYn3LTkNi1pRHNCSDk4VTA/view?usp=sharing">AVF CSA Box Value compared to Whole Foods</a><br />
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In summary our boxes delivered between 46% to 70% more food compared to Whole Foods for the same cost!<br />
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We hope you enjoy the overabundance!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">AVF Classic Box Oct 11, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">10 Items<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ananda Valley Farm $ Cost<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$23</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">13 Items!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">12 Items</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">AVF Family Box Oct 18, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ananda Valley Farm $ Cost<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$28</span></div>
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Oct 11 2015 Classic Box</div>
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Oct 11 2015 Family Box</div>
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Oct 18 2015 Classic Box</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-18001367701395727882015-07-05T20:11:00.000-07:002016-05-22T20:26:49.052-07:00Farm News July 5, 2015<div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<i>Farm News, July 5, 2015</i></div>
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<b>Hey, what's likely to be in my CSA box this week?</b></div>
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Heirloom Tomatoes, the first of the season, from Ananda Community in Mt. View</div>
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Peaches, the first of the season, from Ananda Community in Mt.View</div>
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Lemon Cucumbers, from Ananda Community in Mt. View</div>
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Slicing Cucumber, the first of the season</div>
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Butter lettuce, the first of the season</div>
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Winter Density lettuce</div>
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Radishes</div>
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Zucchini</div>
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Beets</div>
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Yellow Squash</div>
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Flowering Bok Choi - a delicacy in Asian cuisine</div>
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Strawberries (in family boxes)</div>
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Japanese cucumber, the first of the season (in family boxes)</div>
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Eggplant, from Ananda Community in Mt. View (in family boxes)</div>
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Broccoli (in family boxes)</div>
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Cauliflower (in family boxes)</div>
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<b>Announcements</b></div>
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•
CSA box deliveries seem to be going well. If you ever need to change
where you wish to pick up your box, just give a text to Art at
650-740-8478. So you don’t have to remember it, that number will now be
available on the “Contact Us” tab of the <a href="http://anandavalleyfarm.org/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">AnandaValleyFarm.org</a> website. </div>
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If you are one of those who pick up your produce at the Farm itself,
the pickup times are changing to an earlier time on Saturday, 1 - 2:30
pm. Otherwise text to make special arrangements. </div>
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• In all locations, thanks for signing out your box on the clipboard. It helps our ability to follow up if any problems arise.</div>
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Don’t forget to return your empty boxes (especially those of you
picking up at the Temple Piazza!) and Ananda Valley Farm produce bags.
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As
can be seen in your CSA box, the Farm is finally having some true “hot
weather” crops ripen for harvest. First time entrants into your box this
week include heirloom tomatoes, peaches, and two kinds of cucumbers.
These days, a big help is coming from the Ananda Community in Mt. View,
where many from our Ananda congregation members live side by side. The
gardens there have been actively cultivated for over 20 years, and are
lovingly tended with sustainable permaculture methods. Amara (right) and
Ramani (left) have been the guiding lights for that site for some time
now. Here they are planting one of their favorite fruit trees, with the
Farm’s seedling manager, Eric, between them. </div>
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Our
next Farm Adventure Days for kids is coming up the week of July 20 -
25. Only a few more spots are available. To sign up, register at <a href="http://anandavalleyfarm.com/kids/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">anandavalleyfarm.com/kids/</a>.</div>
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In order to see the photos from the last Farm Adventure Days, copy and paste into your browser: “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1635380840007855.1073741833.1424913351054606&type=3.%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1635380840007855.1073741833.1424913351054606&amp;type=3.”</a> Then you can see for yourself just how much fun they had!</div>
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Blessings, and Joy!</div>
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Biraj and Lahari</div>
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for the Ananda Valley Farm team</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05400187558404257934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972035073095500496.post-59620682795721231142015-05-09T21:48:00.000-07:002015-05-09T21:48:33.591-07:00Tomato plants growingThe tomato plants are growing very well in the hoop house.<br />
The CSA boxes should have quite a few tomatoes in a few weeks.<br />
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The cucumber plants are just sprouting and getting started, a few more weeks before cukes will make it into the boxes.<br />
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