Category Archives: CFK 2009

Week Fourteen: Watermelon and Cantaloupe!

Firstly, I was featured on Annarbor.com last week! Read Jen Haines’ excellent article here!It’s been another good week at the farm. These cool mornings have been deceptive–we workers start the day in multiple layers and wind up scattering sweatshirts, socks,

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Week Thirteen: Rainy harvest

Hello everyone!Yet another great week at the farm. This week’s harvest contains tons of delicious summer delights. We’re getting sweet corn for the first time this week. Farmer Paul says it’s not been a really good year for corn, but

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Week Twelve: Halfway time

Hard to believe we’re roughly half way through the 2009 season, isn’t it? In some ways it’s difficult to imagine that we have so much more to go, and in others it seems like time is just flying. As usual

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Week Eleven: Gazpacho Time!

Sorry for the late-in-the-day post! It’s been a busy week around the farm and the kitchen.Tuesday was a fun day out at the farm because my dad joined us for a day of work. My family is a member of

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Week Ten: Nitya’s Indian Feast!

It’s been another good week out at the farm. Irrigation made our weeding job on Tuesday a lot easier–they’d run the drip lines for a while which made the ground soft enough to pull out weeds. We were working on

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Week Nine: Deep summer rain

I guess I’ve been saying this for weeks now, but I think summer has truly arrived in all its bounty. Plus, we got an INCH of rain at the farm on Tuesday night, which made the earth soft for digging

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Week Eight: Buried Treasures

What a lovely and much-needed rain shower we got in Ann Arbor this morning! I don’t know how much rain they got at the farm, but let’s hope it was plenty!We did a lot of digging this week: potatoes, garlic,

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Two Recipes by request

Hi everyone! Regular weekly update will be coming later today, but by request I’m posting a couple of recipes. Firstly, here is the Fava Bean Guacamole recipe that has become so famous around the farm community. It comes from The

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Week Seven: Summer’s bounty

We’re looking at another great week here at the CFK with amazing vegetables simply pouring in from the farm. This is Blair’s last week cooking with us, and we’ll certainly be missing her and wishing her luck as she begins

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Week Six: Rockstar Veggies!

This week’s vegetables are SO beautiful and glamorous–they can only be rockstars. Check out the pictures and see if you don’t agree. It’s good to be back, though I enjoyed my week’s holiday very much. We had good sailing, though

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