Bean beans, that magical fruit… … but enough fart jokes. There are many reasons that people grow certain crops in their personal gardens here in the United States. To be honest with ourselves, most backyard gardens are about the convenience of growing something you enjoy eating during the gardening season. With Covid hitting, hobby gardening…
Category: Gardening
Simple Summer Corn Salad (and some nerdery, too)
If you love corn, you’re gonna memorize this salad because you will want to make it… year round. Oh yes, yummy and healthy and dang it – incredibly easy. (And as always with our recipes, VERY adaptable/adjustable!) Super simple, 7 ingredients (including dressing)… and if you garden, most of the other veggies/herbs can be grown…
The Raw Reality of the Last 10 Days (and being okay with it)
The joy of a Farm is it is ever changing. The challenge of a Farm is it is ever changing. The frustrations of a Farm is… yup, you guessed it. These last few weeks have been particularly challenging for a few reasons but I will throw the gauntlet of largest responsibility at the feet of…
DBF’s Top 5 Grows: #3 TOMATOES
We LOVE tomatoes. And our garden wouldn’t be OUR GARDEN if it didn’t have 2-3 entire beds (and our deck and various other locations) filled with their deep green, thick foliage and incredibly delicious fruits in a rainbow of colors. Tomatoes HAVE to be one of the most used veggies out there. It’s found in…
DBF’s Top 5 Grows: #2 COLLARD GREENS
Man, do I love a hearty green. See, I grew up on foraged greens (and cultivated ones too, but it’s the rustic, ‘ground to table’ things that stick out the most to me from my youth.) Coming from a small town with very meager means, we were ALL about living off the land as much…
Dragon Brook Farm 