Farm Bag Six

 We are getting out our sixth farm bag of the season and are very happy with how our season has gone!  We are hoping to continue for a while yet to come!  This is the information we sent out in this weeks Homestead Happenings Newsletter.

Farm Bag Five

This week has gone by in a blink!  I spent last weekend at a conference, and then came back to work, school preparation and garden duties.  It has been a really phenomenal summer and I am excited contemplating a continuation of farm bags for longer this year than in years previous.  Here is this weeks newsletter.

Farm Bag Four

As the heat of August does not disappoint farm bag number four was ready for delivery.  I like to try to add little personal tidbits that come from all of the squirreling away preserving of food that we try to accomplish.  It never ceases to amaze me how quick and easy some things are, but it seems that we do not do them, always making the excuse that the task too time consuming.  I am much this way myself, but this week I was once again reminded how the most difficult thing of processing some of the basil was hauling out the food processor!  That said, it takes all of 15 minutes to pound out three containers of pesto and that was with grating all of the cheese by hand.  I have come up with a favorite recipe and now that I have made it a few times this week pesto is front and center in many of our meals.  I also included a container of it in each of this weeks farm bags.  Take a peak at this weeks newsletter to catch up on our Homestead Happenings.

First Farm Bags of 2012

We are thrilled that our first farm bags of the season were ready to head out the door this morning!  It was really exciting to get them ready.  We found that we have better dialed in our process from last year and the gathering and separating went much more smoothly and quickly.  Each year's experience helps us to make adjustments and I suspect that no matter how good we get at it, we will always be tweaking it here or there.  I have also been working on the newsletter and this is what I have come up with so far.  We are emailing the newsletters the morning that the bags are ready.  It saves on paper, and also whets peoples appetites for what is coming.  I may expand it further as the season progresses, or do special editions to include seasonal kid crafts and canning advice.  Here's to a successful farm bag year!