Category Archives: CFK 2009

Grand Finale Pt 2

Well! What a week of Kitchen work it’s been! Last week the kitchen crew worked extra long and hard to prepare that unbelievable bounty and I think some CFK members were a little overwhelmed with the over 10 items they

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Grand Finale!

There is so much to say about the Grand close of the season… how hard we worked last week on the farm on cold days and warm days and days that started frozen and turned warm… we brought in such

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Week Twenty Two: Last Regular Harvest

Here we are at the antipenultimate pick up for the CFK. This season has simply flown by! As the harvests decrease slightly in volume we are able to get ahead on other items we’d fallen behind with during the busier

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Week Twenty One: Cool mornings; Sunny days

Oh my, it’s hard to believe we only have one “regular” week left–though we’ve got lots of cooking still ahead of us. It was a lovely week at the farm. On Tuesday we planted four beds of garlic with a

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Week Twenty: Cool Fall Days

It’s been another good week here at the CFK. On Monday I went out to the farm to help out with a field trip of first and second graders from Ann Arbor Open School. The kids had so much energy

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Week Nineteen: The Frost King is Here!

Wow, what a change a week can make. The season shift into autumn has really happened now, and the effects of the Frost King’s visit to our farm are obvious. We’re already beginning to focus on the end of the

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Week Eighteen: Birthday Frost

Well, last night the temperatures were low enough to threaten the tender summer veggies we’ve been enjoying for so long. In anticipation, we had a very busy harvest morning on Wednesday, bringing in all the chard, basil, peppers, and eggplants.

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Week Seventeen: Transition to Fall

You can tell that the seasons are turning, despite the warm weather we’ve been having the past few days. Out at the farm we’re beginning to see the end of summer crops like tomatoes and summer squash and melons (positively

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Week Sixteen: Cool and Spicy

The weather this week has been so interesting! Tuesday was positively hot out at the farm. Like last week we picked tomatoes and more winter squash, bringing in a heroic harvest of acorn and butternut squash that give us all

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Week Fifteen: Back to School

Well, the school year’s come around again. Students are back and suddenly we’re reminded of just how quiet it’s been around this town over the summer! Out at the farm, however, it still seems pretty summer-y, since we’re still getting

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