Category Archives: Veggies

Garlic

 Aaaah, the garlic is curing. Its all bundled and hanging in the barn to air and dry. Here’s Donna helping to hang the garlic. I like that she wore overalls for the occasion. Here’s what its like to eat your … Continue reading

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Loopy Garlic Scapes

Beautiful wonderful delectible healing garlic. I could go on. I even like how it plants. You plant it in the fall (not in the busy spring planting season) and harvest “between solstice and fourth of July” (in the words of … Continue reading

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First CSA Harvest

An exciting week at the farm, with our first CSA veggie pickups. Here are some highlights. I think the bok choi won my prize for most beautiful offering in the share. Yes! Real dirt on vegetables!  Straight from the garden. … Continue reading

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Heirloom Seedling Sale is here!

House in the Woods Organic Heirloom Plant Sale   One of the most delicious tastes of summer is the heirloom tomato. These old-time varieties are bred for their taste and unique characteristics, unlike hybrids developed for a thick skin to … Continue reading

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What’s for dinner?

One of my greatest pleasures on the farm is witnessing my children’s experience of the garden. They inhabit the garden with confidence and comfort, as they snack on sorrel leaves, Long Tom tomatoes, and red peppers. Jonah eats cabbages and … Continue reading

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Donate to the Frederick Food Bank

We donate to the Frederick Food Bank. Never often enough (people eat every day!), but we are trying to go more often. I have made a point to grow extra chard this year for the Food Bank, because I know … Continue reading

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Heirloom Tomatoes “Not too late” Sale

Due to popular demand, we have more heirloom tomato plants ready for sale, in many interesting varieties. And plenty of peppers! Here is your chance to add a magic heirloom tomato to your garden collection, sneak in one more, or … Continue reading

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Heirloom Tomato Varieties

Thanks everyone, for a fabulous tomato sale! We cleared out the first planting of tomato plants, I still have a few Brandywine and that’s it. I have a second planting of lots of varieties for sale, ready around Memorial Day … Continue reading

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It’s Tomato Seedling Sale Week!

Six weeks in the greenhouse and these plants are beauties. Over 20 varieties of heirloom tomato plants, for our garden and those of our plant customers. You can come by the farm this week on Friday May 8 or Saturday … Continue reading

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Garlic Gifts

Garlic shoots please me in April. They are the first green crop in the garden. Since they are planted in autumn, they please like daffodil bulbs, like a spring surprise gift.

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