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:
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| 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.
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| Pig Weed Galore |
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| Moving Day. |
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| They keep growing... |
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| and growing... |
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| and growing. |
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| Endive Salad being triple washed. |
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| Winter Salad Miz |
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| Spin Dry |
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| Cleaning Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) |
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| Sunchokes drying |
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| Surprise Sunflower Bouquets |
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| Purple Carrots at Crystal |
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| Over and Over |
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| Endless weeding of the Asparagus beds at Burge |
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| Tiny Beauty |
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| Tomato Seconds that I turned into tomato paste |
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| Playing with wet concrete |
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| Farm Hand Roll Call at Crystal |
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| Fall Colors at Burge |
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| Restaurant Orders |
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| Poor Hand Turkey |
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| Kale :) |
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| Matthew's Hamper House of wonder |
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| Parsley at Crystal- we sell lots to Whole Foods |
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| To Do |
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| Fennel |
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| Egyptian Walking Onions |
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| They multiply! |
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| I found this. It was unsettling. |
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| Sweet Onions |
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| Peppers |
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| First frost casualties |
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| Fall Market Spread |
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| Fall Market Goods |
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| Purple Sprouting Broccoli |
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| Farm Fresh Eggs from Crystal. They taste as good as they look. |
Puddy Time! With Special Guests.
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| Puddy likes the cold weather just about as much as I do. |
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| Art Shot |
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| Thanksgiving wrestling with Murphey |
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| Post wrestling nap |
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| Eli, our foster puppy |
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| Puddy being the perfect hostess |
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| And Introducing Willy, the Crystal Organic Farm Dog |
