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      • Color the Coop Fun Run
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      • Pickle Fest- It’s a Big Dill!
      • Summer of Sunflowers
      • Peach Fuzztival
      • The Big Dig – Potato Harvest + Touch a Truck
      • Back to School Bash
      • Doxie Derby – Rescue Race
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      • Sept Apples + Corn Maze
        • First Responders Days
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Learning to Love Our Bacteria

January 31, 2019 by Kate Zurschmeide

   We’re studying biology on the farm this winter, especially the relationship between microbiology and macro-biology, and we’re discovering that people and plants have more in common than one might […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: microbiome, plant health, soil bacteria, soil health

Strawberries — Watch out for Pesticides!

May 7, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

Ripe strawberries on plasticulture mulch ready for you-pick.

The best reason to eat our strawberries is taste — once you try the real thing, it’s hard to go back to grocery store berries. But you might also consider […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Clean food, local strawberries, organic strawberries, pesticide use, pesticide-free strawberries

The Ultimate Conversation About What to Eat

April 27, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

The food writer Mark Bittman has eaten just about everything you might put on a dinner plate, and he’s written about a lot of that food — how it tastes, […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Dr. David Katz, Local eating, Mark Bittman, Plant-based diets, What to eat

Why Ferment?

February 8, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

In a world where the goodness of anti-bacterialism is taken for granted, encouraging bacteria to infect your food seems almost as wrong as flag-burning. Don’t the hand-sanitizing stations screwed to […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: fermented vegetables, health benefits of fermented foods, home fermenting, lactobacillus, sauerkraut

First Curtido

January 23, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

My first ferment moved into the eating stage today, after just five days in the crock. That’s on the early end of the fermenting window, and I did wonder if […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: beneficial bacteria, curtido, fermented vegetables, healthy gut biome, probiotics, sauerkraut

Why Local Food?

January 16, 2018 by Kate Zurschmeide

If you’re new to farm food or still considering your first CSA membership, you may be wondering exactly what makes this food different from convention grocery store fare. Most of […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Local Food, nutritional density, reasons for CSA, taste, Why Local?

Ferment Your Own!

October 30, 2017 by Kate Zurschmeide

The next time you drive to the farm, glance to your right as you approach the Dirt Farm entrance: those shiny purple and green plants are cabbages. We have them […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: fermented vegetables, lacto-fermentation, lactobacillus, sauerkraut

Wellness Center Sponsors Group Sites

March 21, 2017 by Kate Zurschmeide

While it might be possible to identify the particular pathogen, enzyme, or attitude that’s making you sick, the elusive condition we call wellness can’t be pegged to any one source. […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: Susan McCormick, The Wellness Connection, wellness centers

About Our Beekeeper

March 17, 2017 by Kate Zurschmeide

The Wall Street Journal runs an article series called Second Acts, which profiles people who have taken up second careers later in life, and last fall they included Bill Bundy, […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: bee keeping, Bill Bundy, honey bees, local honey, pollinators, second cereers

Steve McFadden on the Future of CSA

February 15, 2017 by Kate Zurschmeide

Steve McFadden, an independent journalist who’s been writing about Community Supported Agriculture ever since that way farming first came to America, made this quick pitch presentation at the national Rural […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: CSA benefits, CSA future development, CSA history, Steve McFadden

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Visit the Farm for Indoor Play this Winter

Kids can dig in the Giant Sandbox, swing, sock skate and visit with the bouncy animals while the grownups enjoy a coffee and cider donuts.

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  • Cut your Own Tulips Coming April 2026!

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