It’s been an interesting winter thus far on the farm! While last year was fairly mild, this year brought more snow, days below freezing, and quite a bit of rain over the past couple of weeks. Due to all of the recent rain, we’ve decided to push the relaunch of our Farm Volunteer Program back to Saturday, March 1st. Beginning March 1st, volunteers are invited to come work with us on various farm tasks on Saturday mornings from 8:30-11am. Depending on our particular needs for the week, tasks can range from planting to harvesting to weed maintenance. If you’re interested and would like more details, please reach out to our Farm Team at JordanRanch@Agmenity.com. 

Have you had a chance to try any of our salad mix over the past few weeks? This colorful lettuce mix has quickly become a Farm Team favorite due to its crisp and crunchy texture, how well it holds up to dressing, and its longer shelf life in the fridge. It’s made up of a mixture of green and red butter lettuce and oak leaf lettuce. The mild taste makes it the perfect base for a salad, lending itself to an infinite number of combinations. We recommend pairing it with some of our carrots and fennel and a homemade ranch style dressing flavored with dill and some of our scallions. Make sure to pick up a bag or two of salad mix at the Grab-and-go coolers this weekend! 

In Season at the Farm Stand: Napa Cabbage, Kale, Collard Greens, Asian Spinach, Swiss Chard, Romaine Lettuce, Green Butter Lettuce, Salad Mix, Carrots, Beets, Fennel, Cauliflower, Scallions, and Cilantro

It’s already time to pot-up our tomatoes! “Potting-up” is a process that involves removing the seedlings from their trays and replanting them in larger four-inch pots. This allows more space for their roots to develop and prevents them from getting root-bound. Our goal is to plant our high tunnel tomatoes in mid-February and our field tomatoes in early March. If you want to add tomatoes to your garden this spring, we’ll have plenty of extra transplants for sale at the farm stand in March!

Salad mix is making its way back into season this week! This is one of the many quicker-growing crops we seeded in our high tunnel right after the freeze. It took just about a month to reach harvesting size! Our salad mix is nice and tender and perfect for whipping up a winter salad. Farmer Alex loves dressing it with a homemade maple dijon vinaigrette. You can pick up some salad mix at the farm stand this weekend.

Remember the onion starts that we planted at the end of November? It’s already time to thin them out! Thinning out our onions allows more space for the remaining bulbs to develop and grow. The great thing about this process is that we can eat the immature onions that we remove! As you can see in the photo below, these young onions look similar to a leek but have a mellow flavor like a scallion. Farmer Alex recommends thinly slicing and sprinkling them over a bowl of ramen or using them to make onion confit.

In Season at the Farm Stand: Sugar Snap Peas, Rainbow Carrots, Arugula, Scallions, Lettuce, Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Kale, and Cilantro.