Our Happy Acres

This week marked the first of the asparagus harvest. It was only two spears, but we were pretty excited nonetheless. We are always eager for the start of asparagus season, since it is the first of our seasonal fruits and vegetables to appear.

More are popping up already. This is our third year after planting, and [...]

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This weeks harvest was pretty much All About Spinach. I harvested over 2 pounds of it, and it went into a variety of dishes.
We made some fresh whole wheat spinach pasta, which turned out a lovely shade of bright green. We made another batch of plain whole wheat pasta, and we cut both of these [...]

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March is really turning into the month of greens. I pulled all the early planted pac choi in the greenhouse beds as they were showing the start of flower buds.  There were still plenty of edible greens though, and it didn’t affect the quality one bit. I made a batch of Green Choi Soup for [...]

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We had another nice haul of greens this week. The second “thinning” of spinach yielded a little over a pound. I made four plantings this year, about double what I grew last year, because we like spinach so much. It’s also the best time to grow it here, or at least I think so. Fall [...]

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Asian greens have recently become a favorite cool weather crop here at Happy Acres. I had grown pac choi and Chinese cabbage off and on for years, with varied success. But little did I know that beyond those two somewhat familiar plants were an unbelievable variety of vegetables I had never even heard of.
I got [...]

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This week’s harvest added some baby spinach to the mix. I made a wilted spinach salad with some hot balsamic vinaigrette, orange sections and walnuts.
The spinach was harvested when I did the final thinning from one of the greenhouse beds. I have more thinning to do, so we’ll have that to eat next week perhaps. [...]

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