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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Merry Christmas!





I haven't written in quite a while. Did you miss me? I have been busy farming away at Burge and Crystal Organic. The fall CSA ended and Peachtree Road Farmers Market is done for the year. The cold weather and short days have slowed the growth of all the plants but it is the south and we have hoop houses so we continue to produce amazing food, just a little bit slower. Slower is kind of nice after the blistering heat and speed of a Georgia summer. 

My Christmas gift to you is a few new recipes and a ton of pictures. I won't bore you with much more writing. On to the good stuff:

Nursery



Baby Chicks! They are growing up so fast. I cleaned out their chicken coop which was covered in pig weed and then moved them in. Now they have a little yard and get fresh greens every day. At night they go inside where they have heat lamps, hay and space to roost. 


Pig Weed Galore

Moving Day. 

They keep growing...


and growing...


and growing.

Endive Salad being triple washed. 

Winter Salad Miz
Spin Dry

Cleaning Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes)

Sunchokes drying

Surprise Sunflower Bouquets



Purple Carrots at Crystal

Over and Over

Endless weeding of the Asparagus beds at Burge

Tiny Beauty


Tomato Seconds that I turned into tomato paste

Playing with wet concrete 

Farm Hand Roll Call at Crystal



Fall Colors at Burge
Restaurant Orders

Poor Hand Turkey
Kale :)

Matthew's Hamper House of wonder




Parsley at Crystal- we sell lots to Whole Foods

To Do


Fennel

Egyptian Walking Onions

They multiply!



I found this. It was unsettling. 


Sweet Onions

Peppers



First frost casualties


Fall Market Spread

Fall Market Goods



Purple Sprouting Broccoli 


Farm Fresh Eggs from Crystal. They taste as good as they look.

Puddy Time! With Special Guests.


Puddy likes the cold weather just about as much as I do.

                                   
Art Shot

Thanksgiving wrestling with Murphey


Post wrestling nap

Eli, our foster puppy


Puddy being the perfect hostess
And Introducing Willy, the Crystal Organic Farm Dog