Morning Song Farm News

Last week's dragons were older and best eaten shucked. This week's dragons are younger and best steamed and eaten whole. Because of the heat, I think steaming them and then serving them chilled withi a little basil would be easy and satisfying. Squeeze a little lime, add a dash of salt; maybe a crush garlic glove and a splash of California olive oil.

Well, I think this is the best ever harvest ticket as far as readability goes. Each week I fiddle with different ways to get the ticket up on this blog. This week, it looks pretty readable. Yeah, me. In light of our ongoing agricultural theft issues, we have decided to cut down some of our lime trees to make another row crop area that is easier to defend. So by September, we should be abandoning Garden X and Baby X which is the furthest away from the center of our farm and concentrating on our soon to be named new row crop garden next to the chickens. It's always a tough thing for me to cut ANY tree down, and I pretty much had to leave the farm as the chain saws were going. But I know that there's no sense in working so hard at growing stuff that I can't get in my CSA boxes because of theft. We're figuring out costs this week to install security fencing and razor wire. We'll probably do a combination of chain link, electrical and razor with some motion detection th...

Ha! Where do I begin? For starters, we're really disappointed to see that we have been unable to protect our amazing strawberries from theft. With a couple thousand row feet of beautiful strawberries, we sure anticipated including the just-picked fruit in shares through much of the Spring and early Summer. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case. Not because we finally got with it and learned the tricks of growing this delicious crop; but because theft is a problem that we haven't solved. Next season we will not be growing high value crops in out fields that are indefensible. Here in Rainbow, if a high value crop (read: can be sold at a farmer's market) isn't being grown behind a six foot, chain link/razer wire/electrical combination security fence--preferably with motion detection; you should just forget it. Apricots were again stolen this week; the kids on the farm actually confronted the family of thieves (hey mom and dad! You actually brought your kids along fo...