Barberry Hill Farm Wedding: Molly + Lou

Plein Air Painters

The Madison Plein Air Painters came to visit Barberry Hill Farm - capturing the colors and beauty of a New England Autumn.

Early morning fog

Late Summer Farm

Life Imitating Art

A farm stand customer brought this painting by the other day for us to view...given it is circa 1940's, I would say we are life imitating art.

Kayla's Kale Chips Recipe

Kayla’s Kale Chips

Ingredients:

• A bunch of kale (enough to cover 2 sheet trays)
• A couple drizzles of olive oil (lemon or basil olive oil works well too)
• Paprika
• Garlic salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees fahrenheit
2. Wash kale, dry really well and tear into medium pieces (remove thick stems)
3. Drizzle olive oil on kale in a big bowl (enough so most leaves are lightly coated) and toss
4. Toss paprika and garlic salt with the kale
5. Spread kale out on 2 sheet trays and make sure they are not overlapping
6. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until crispy

You can experiment with different spices too! We also like to use cumin and curry sometimes.

Enjoy!

Kayla

Honey Jars

First extraction of honey this season has us busy filling jars - you can find the jars at our farm stand.

Bale Like You Sail

 

Advice from Kingsley on cutting hay?  Just bail like you sail.

Cucumber, radish, mint and feta cheese recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 1 lb cucumbers
• 2 or 3 red radishes, thinly sliced
• 10 young mint leaves, thinly sliced
• 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
• 1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (more to taste)
• 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (more to taste)
• 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese

submitted by:  E. Reid

Around the Farm

The Start of the CSA Season

Getting Ready for Market

For health, taste, and even skin tone, it is hard to beat fresh broccoli, spinach and lettuce, just hours out of the ground.

Around the Farm in June

Welcome to Summer (almost).  We have been busy, getting ready for our farm share community and farmstand.  We look forward to seeing our old CSA friends while making new ones, and for those who have not been by the farm, here a few recent photos.

Ursa guarding rows of carrots

Preparing fields for more planting

Heads of lettuce ready for picking

Cucumbers ready to go

Tomatoes ready in a couple of weeks

Julia, our farm intern from Germany

And the scent of climbing Hydrangea is everywhere

Dinners at the Farm, 2019

We are thrilled to welcome another year of hosting Dinners at the Farm with Jonathan Rapp and his incredible team at River Tavern, from July 24-27, 2019.  For more information and tickets, go to <http://www.dinnersatthefarm.com>.  Looking forward to seeing you here!

Spring to the Farm

CSA Members who visit the farm this time of year are amazed by the acceleration of activities.  Every day brings combinations of new growth, new projects, even new births.  These pictures from past years get us all excited to tackle the splendor and challenges of life on the farm.

And studies, such as the recent one that concluded "Bad diets are killing more people globally than tobacco" (quoted in The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/03/bad-diets-killing-more-people-globally-than-tobacco-study-finds>) make the work that much more meaningful.

March, in like a Lion

Looks like the March Lion is chasing these again this year...

The original farmers cottage

Cold Nights and Warm Days

Dinners at the Farm, August 5-8

We will again be hosting Dinners at the Farm this year - and reservations have already started booking up fast.  For ticket information, click on this link:

• https://www.dinnersatthefarm.com