Dig It

The contents of this week’s box: zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, three pints cherry tomatoes, one pint heirloom tomatoes, one pint tomatillos (the first of the season), two onions, one bunch garlic, mint and okra.
Declining squash harvests are still a disappointment, but I noticed new growth all week, including the ripening of a couple of cucumbers [...]

This farm project is based on the idea of sustainable agriculture, which involves enhancing the environment as well as reaping resources from it.  Evidence of the farm’s environmental health has been most obvious, to me, in the number of birds that have taken to hunting for insects among the vegetable beds. I see mockingbirds and [...]