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09/07/2025

As I sit here not weighing things and putting them into bags, getting ready to cheer the Bengals on to their 1st opener win since 2021, it gives me a quiet chance to reflect.

The season was great in many ways, challenging in many ways and we learned some things to implement next year.

One of the best parts for me - besides having a garden to work in anytime I want - is getting a chance to connect with all of you week in and week out. Thank you for all your support, encouragement, friendliness and patience when the driveway was blocked. We do this because we love it so when you love it too it’s a big bonus!

Here’s a recap of the season in case you want to remember.

Last bag of 2025! What a season! We’re wrapping up with 14 things at about 14 pounds. 1. Watermelon- there was more!2. B...
08/31/2025

Last bag of 2025! What a season!

We’re wrapping up with 14 things at about 14 pounds.

1. Watermelon- there was more!
2. Basil
3. Tomatoes
4. Onions
5. Tomatillos (see my post from yesterday for tomatillos links - or look online 😀)
6. Peppers
7. Hot peppers
8. Potatoes
9. Purple cabbage
10. Carrots
11. Green beans
12. Zucchini
13. Lettuce
14. Garlic bouquet

Plus we had such a good potato harvest we have more than we can give in the bag. So, we have extra potatoes. Subscribers, you’ll have 2 pounds in your bag and you can grab up to 5 pounds more for free. And then $2 a pound for more. Non- subscribers can grab some for $2 a pound too. Because these have been washed they need to be in the fridge but I’ve had them last well after Thanksgiving when they’re kept in the fridge. First come, first served - while they last!

Subscribers get 1st dibs on next year sign ups. If you’re pretty sure you want to do it again, write your name on the chalkboard that’ll be on the big table.

Thank you all for a really nice season. It’s been our pleasure.

Elise & Nox

We don’t always have season debuts in the last bag of the season - but this year there will be two tomorrow - tomatillos...
08/30/2025

We don’t always have season debuts in the last bag of the season - but this year there will be two tomorrow - tomatillos and purple cabbage

The Tomatillos- 1st time this year - are finally ready. A new variety this year with some monster fruits! I know a lot of you are very familiar and passionate about these but for those of you less familiar, here’s a link with some recipes and detail.

https://www.mexicanplease.com/can-make-tomatillos/

We’ll have plenty of peppers - sweet and hot - along with onions and garlic so you should be able to make all kinds of things - salsa verde, enchiladas, chili …

The purple cabbage is also late this year - and small. I just forgot to start it on time 🤷🏼‍♀️. So I harvested as much as I could since time was up. I love the silvery purple of the plant’s leaves. Not very many things that color in the garden.

Anyway … if you’re a subscriber, see you tomorrow for the last bag.

Don’t forget to cook your edamame- our appetizer tonight. So good! Washed in pod, Boiled in very salty water 4 1/2 minut...
08/26/2025

Don’t forget to cook your edamame- our appetizer tonight. So good!

Washed in pod, Boiled in very salty water 4 1/2 minutes; Cooled a little by running cold water over colander; drip dried then dried a little more on a dish towel; liberally sprinkled kosher salt.

It sure feels like fall with these cool nights and school buses on the roads - and the next to last Firefly Hill Farm ve...
08/24/2025

It sure feels like fall with these cool nights and school buses on the roads - and the next to last Firefly Hill Farm veggie bag.

Some penultimate bag excitement - the aforementioned edamame and our biggest corn harvest of the year! The 2nd to last bag has a few more surprises- with 12 things and 17 pounds there’s a lot to “unpack”

Here’s the rundown
1. Edamame - I posted about it yesterday if you missed it. A favorite of ours we thought might not make it this year
2. Corn! I was very premature in warning you guys we might not get corn this year. Our last planting was our most abundant
3. Purple beans - new debut - they turn a dark green when you cook them
4. Kale is back for a final appearance
5. Lettuce is hangin in there 😀
6. Cucumber - surprise! - thought they were done
7. Tomatoes- this may be then end of them
8. Cherry tomatoes - ditto . .. we’ll see
9. Peppers - excited to see enough red bells to have most of you get at least one.
10. Yellow potatoes (Yukon gold type- a variety we love called Satina)
11. Onions
12. Garlic

Filled the table! And the corn couldn’t fit in the regular bag so I’ll give it to you separately- don’t let me forget!

Yes, this does mean the last bag is next week! I can’t believe it’s already here.

But for now this should keep you busy!

In most great bingeable series the next to last episode - the penultimate episode - has a surprising twist. Our penultim...
08/23/2025

In most great bingeable series the next to last episode - the penultimate episode - has a surprising twist. Our penultimate bag’s big surprise is edamame! After some difficulty getting it going due to somebody eating the bean sprouts, we persevered and are rewarded with one of our favorite humble veggie.

As many of you probably know, edamame is just fresh soybeans - they are more and more available these days but fresh from the garden they’re even better!

Our favorite way to cook them is boil them (in the pod) in salty water for just a few minutes and then sprinkled with coarse salt. (Don’t skimp on the salt)

https://simplegreensmoothies.com/how-to-make-edamame/

But there are lots of other methods too … roasting, dips and there supposed to be good for your health too.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-cook-edamame-2217370

So maybe not as exciting as Game of Thrones red wedding but it’s exciting to us! Edamame will be one of the stars of the penultimate bag.

With schools starting up again or getting ready to start soon, back to school vibes are in the air! Our bag to celebrate...
08/17/2025

With schools starting up again or getting ready to start soon, back to school vibes are in the air! Our bag to celebrate back-to-school has our favorite “surprise“. For the last few years we’ve tried to grow watermelon away from the bugs…we never broadcast it in case it doesn’t work but lately it always has (so it’s becoming less surprising). This year it worked! We have a little over half of it to give this week!!! Enjoy your “surprise” watermelon for your back to school bag.

Here’s the full list of 10 things for this week.

1. Watermelon- as per above. so glad it worked!
2. A new bean - Dragon’s Tongue beans - cook them like green beans or wax beans (or eat them raw). Here’s a recipe to inspire https://soilborn.org/recipe/dragon-tongue-beans-with-onions-peppers/ but there’s lots more on the internet
3. Onions
4. Garlic
5. Tomatoes - dropping off fast
6. Cherry tomatoes
7. Peppers
8. Hot peppers
9. Napa cabbage is back
10. Purple potatoes are back!

Enjoy!

This is the “salad” bag 😀 Every season I try and make it that we have one bag with all the classic salad ingredients. Us...
08/10/2025

This is the “salad” bag 😀 Every season I try and make it that we have one bag with all the classic salad ingredients. Usually it’s early in tomato season before the lettuce gives out. But this year the carrots were off schedule so it didn’t come until August!

So here’s the run down with your salad ingredients first (plus a bit more of course!)

1. Lettuce - need it for a classic salad and grateful we still have it.
2. Tomatoes - the pinnacle of a garden salad
3. Cherry tomatoes- see above 😀
4. Carrots
5. Radishes
6. Peppers
7. Cucumber
8. Red onion (if you like that in your salad)

Voila! Everything in a classic American garden salad!

Plus
9. Corn! Yay! This is a white variety (plus a few of you got some laggard ears from last weeks bicolor)
10. Hot peppers - jalapeños big enough for poppers and bright red Fresnos
11. Summer squash - the last gasp from our first planting before we pull them out for the next ones.
12. Potatoes (I told you it was a bumper crop this year!)

So have fun with all these - whether you make a proper salad or not.

Just harvested lettuce mix. It germinated and grew during heat wave after heat wave. It’s confirming we are starting to...
08/09/2025

Just harvested lettuce mix. It germinated and grew during heat wave after heat wave. It’s confirming we are starting to figure out how to use our shaded beds. The yield is substantially less than full sun (100’ for a weekly harvest versus 50’ (or even 25’), growth is substantially slower, and lettuce still bolts in the heat - but at a much slower rate. It’ll just be a bit more than 7 ounces for our regular size bag - but happy to have it at all!

The beginning of August bag is another celebration of summer! 11 things at 14.5 pounds and not much room left on my pict...
08/03/2025

The beginning of August bag is another celebration of summer! 11 things at 14.5 pounds and not much room left on my picture table!

Here’s the rundown
1. Corn! After my warning last week, the next planting looked great and had minimal squirrel damage. Hurray!
2,3&4. Tomatoes three ways … tons of regular tomatoes, cherry / small tomatoes, and Roma type tomatoes… must be summer
5. Cucumbers - the bugs are especially intense this year and the cukes are succumbing. We’re hoping the new ones we planted grow fast!
6. Lettuce … 🤷🏼‍♀️
7. Onions
8. Garlic
9. Peppers
10. Pepperoncini hot peppers
11. Potatoes - yellow variety this week - we had an amazing potato year so eat your potatoes! More are comin’!

Plus - lots of free “uglier” tomatoes (they’re all a little ugly by now) for sauces, salsas, juices, sub-drying, freezing, etc.

Happy tomato & corn season!

Two updates. One. The broody hen wasn’t a very good brooder. No chicks just rotten eggs, so experiment done and she seem...
08/02/2025

Two updates.

One. The broody hen wasn’t a very good brooder. No chicks just rotten eggs, so experiment done and she seems relieved to be free.

Two. A new to us kind of hot pepper this week. Pepperoncini! The kind Peter picked a peck of to pickle. 🙂 and the kind you see all around pickled. As you probably know - they are milder as hot peppers go. And can be used for other things besides pickled peppers but they’re especially good pickled. You can “quick pickle” them or pickle and can. Or make a flavored oil or use them the way you would any hottish pepper. Here’s some recipes but you can also play around and anything you do will likely be good.

https://www.growforagecookferment.com/pickled-pepperoncini-peppers/

https://www.daringgourmet.com/pickled-pepperoncini-peppers/

https://www.slenderkitchen.com/article/pepperoncini

It’s the bag to inspire you to cook a batch of something - the salsa bag, the sauce bag, the pickles bag, the pesto bag....
07/27/2025

It’s the bag to inspire you to cook a batch of something - the salsa bag, the sauce bag, the pickles bag, the pesto bag. Pick your project - you have most of what you need!

There are 12 things this week, weighing in at over 14 pounds.
1. Tomatoes - for eating, making salsa, making tomato sauce …. In other words a lot (plus there’s optional extra when you pick up)
2&3. Onions & garlic - needed for all your projects!
4. Basil (for the pesto project or the sauce!)
5. Dill (for a pickle project!)
6. Peppers - need those for salsa!
7. Jalapeños - definitely need those for salsa!
8. Corn!!!
9. Potatoes - russets this week
10. Lettuce (hanging on!!)
11. Cherry tomatoes
12. Cucumbers - can’t have a pickle project without cukes!

Or you could use it all for good eating every day - no projects necessary 🙂

Plus - if you’re serious about your projects - there are Extra tomatoes for $2 a pound and extra “ugly” tomatoes for free (all are welcome for these not just subscribers)

Happy project-ing!

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