Imagine trying to get 10,000 tiny seeds from seed packets into these growing trays. Now imagine 70,000 seeds. That’s what Leigh Hauter has been working on the past week–getting a jump start on the crops for his CSA at Bull Run Farm. So far, Leigh and his helper have 20,000 seeds planted and the broccoli […]
This is the first in what we hope will be a regular series of articles about Leigh Hauter and his CSA operation at Bull Run Farm in The Plains, Virginia. Leigh has been farming in the Washington area for 15 years, first at the Cheseapeake Bay Foundation’s Clagett Farm in Prince George’s County. He was […]
Tags:broccoli·Bull Run Farm·CSA·eggplant·local farming·peppers·seeds·spring·tomatoes
We had so much fun making pasta on the ghitarra at school that I decided to try it at home. Daughter was happy to help. We took turns rolling the dough through the pasta machine, then pressing it through the ghitarra. We keep a big Ziploc bag of pesto cubes in the freezer that we […]
Tags:CSA·dark days challenge·garden·local foods·pasta·spring
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