Healthful Southwest Iowa

03/05/2024

🌿 When we talk about “leave the leaves” what does that do? 🌱Each community paves the way for the next to thrive, creating a chain reaction of habitat adaptation. 🦠🍃 Leaf litter and humus layer boost sandy soil regeneration. Consider this when planning your landscaping.

02/27/2024

Congratulations to the Shenandoah community for establishing an indoor marketplace! This is a great opportunity for growing small business culture in the area. 🙌

02/24/2024

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01/20/2024

These samples are the same soil type and have been in a corn-bean rotation for the past 20+ years, however their treatment has been substantially different. The soil on the left has not been tilled or had anhydrous ammonia applied for over 20 years and has had a cereal rye cover crop grown after harvest for the last 5 years. The soil on the right has been tilled each year, as well has had anhydrous ammonia applied in the fall. This picture was taken about 2 minutes after the samples were submerged in water. The tilled soil essentially “exploded” as soon as it entered the water. Repeated tillage has destroyed the structure of the soil, eliminating pore space and destroying the biological “glue” that helps hold soil together, and as a result the soil has collapsed. In contrast, due to minimal soil disturbance the tillage-free soil has excellent pore space and extensive biological activity, and as a result has provided the soil with a healthy structure that can withstand the impacts of water.

Within 5 minutes the tilled soil was completely gone, whereas the tillage-free soil remained almost entirely intact. We decided to see how long it could last and kept adding water to it (to keep up with evaporation) over the course of several weeks. We gave up after 6 weeks, in which the tillage-free soil sample was still about 95% intact.

05/28/2022

This is one of many reasons why we minimize the amount of mowing we do.

This is why you don’t have to water native plants. And those roots act like sponges to control flooding.

10/23/2021

10/01/2021

The Plastic Bag Store!

11/20/2020

09/19/2020

A 🌊 of cinnamon rolls in downtown Red Oak. Join us for a great market + the Southwest Art Tour + fall open houses!

09/05/2020

Good morning from downtown Red Oak 😉.... let’s petition for a cinnamon roll emoji!

08/13/2020

Gotta stay in the loop of that new gardening lingo 😆

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08/13/2020

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08/12/2020

We'll be taking a break from the market the next 2 weeks to work on some projects around the house... see you soon.

08/08/2020

We're at the market with a new Peach Cinnamon Roll; Pecan Rolls, Regular Cinnamon Rolls, all 3 types of microgreens, and fresh produce; come see us. 🙂

08/06/2020

Tomorrow’s market you’ll find a new variety of multi-colored radish microgreens 🌱 (not as spicy as previous variety) & a new keto brownie recipe 🍫 (one with walnuts // the other with white chocolate chips).

08/01/2020

Our table is LOADED for Crazy Days!
Stop by and says hi 👋

07/27/2020

This week at the Thursday 🌽Farmers Market we will have a special 💥preview of:
The Wilson's, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" musical!!!
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Starting at 5 o'clock; come down to the Fountain Square Park to see what the community has to offer for LIVE entertainment and FRESH produce.👯‍♂️🥒🥕🍆🍪

07/24/2020

We’re having a sale on Kale at tomorrow’s farmers market, $1 a bag not only because we have LOADS of it but also because it’s our 1 year wedding anniversary! 👫❤️

Come see us, we’ll also have, cinnamon rolls, gluten-free muffins, peppers, beets, pea shoots, and more! Plus there will be live music downtown! What’s not to love about that.

07/19/2020

Two weeks away yet planting today. 🌱
We will have our variety of microgreens available during Crazy Days! 🤪
▪️Pea Shoots - Sweet
▪️Broccoli - Mild (healthiest)
▪️Radish - Spicy

Expect to find cinnamon rolls, gluten free muffins, and some keto treats under our canopy, too... that is if you get there early enough!

Come shop in downtown Red Oak during Crazy Days on Saturday, August 1st!🤪 Crazy prices and great deals from downtown businesses & home-based businesses. Downtown Red Oak is a family friendly environment. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The Red Oak Farmers Market is adding live music and sidewalk chalk to the morning mix of fun.

07/18/2020

07/18/2020

We will be at today’s Saturday market in Red Oak with cinnamon rolls, GF zucchini muffins, radish microgreens, eggs, and maybe a little more.
We have some fun ideas in the pipeline, so stay tuned... it might be a little while, but it’ll be worth it.

07/11/2020

💡 Thoughts from Anna 💡

With all the kitchen gadgets there are in the world, it's easy to overlook how useful and versatile our hands are. With kale we like to strip the greens from its stem and cook it various ways. We enjoy cooking kale in a pan with eggs and other vegetables and meat to make a hash/frittata 👌 our favorite.

07/11/2020

Why buy toys when you can grow them? 🌱👶😺 Both Adler and BB seems interested in this LARGE kohlrabi.

The Saturday market went great today! Sounds like We'll be getting another vendor. 😊We'll havr to bake even more cinnamon rolls next week!

07/11/2020

Since we don't use pesticides within our garden, it's not unusual for us to find various creatures like this Cabbage Looper forming a cocoon on a leaf of Kale. Pretty neat seeing it form like that!

We will be at today's Saturday market in with Kale, Collards, Zucchini, Gluten-free Zucchini Walnut Muffins, and a lot of Anna's Cinnamon Rolls!

07/09/2020

Sorry, but we'll not be at today's Thursday market. 🙁
BUT, we'll be prepared for the Saturday morning market... We hope you're ready for some cinnamon rolls! 😁

07/03/2020

Sorry we didn't make a post earlier this which, but we will not be at markets this week.

We hope everyone has an enjoyable 4th of July!

06/27/2020

Microgreen Mountain! 🌱 Looking for nutrients? We have plenty.

Cinnamon rolls are almost gone. We have curly kale, keto muffins, gluten-free bagels, and more!

06/25/2020

🌱 Radish Microgreens 🌱 are being introduced at this evening's farmers market in Red Oak! Very limited supply this week, so be quick! Great for adding that spicy flavor to dishes 😋😄