{COMMUNITY SHARECROPPING} Home Grown Wheat

Our rabbi, Jonathan Rubenstein of Temple Sinai in Saratoga Springs, runs a non-profit bakery out of the temple.  Most Friday mornings he is there, baking challah and babka, plus his kick-ass granola.  When we sold our house and garden in Argyle, New York three years ago and were moaning about where we would go to garden, Jonathan’s…

{pizza week} CSA Pizza w/ Good Intentions

I love making pizza at home. It’s easy, I can put a lot of vegetables on it, and it always tastes good. A perfect one-dish meal. Today I made pizza using the ingredients from my CSA box and from my garden. Oh my! I have a lot of produce to use up at this time…

{COMMUNITY SHARECROPPING} May is the Time to Plant Your Garden

May is planting season in the community share cropping gardens.  We already planted cover crops (more on those in a future post), winter wheat and garlic last fall;  those are all coming in now.  We had a wet, late spring in upstate New York, so didn’t get much going in April. Usually we have peas…