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Two City Kids Family Farm At Two City Kids Family Farm we have a mission. Our mission is to feed hungry people. Our business is garlic, eggs, and woodcraft.

Our sharing garden provides fresh produce to local pantries. Our Garlic and eggs provide the means!

The garlic is in!
22/07/2023

The garlic is in!

Braided Garlic $20 are ready for you!
22/07/2023

Braided Garlic $20 are ready for you!

Garlic havest has begun!
13/07/2023

Garlic havest has begun!

13/05/2023

What's happening on the farm!

13/05/2023

It's all about or mission!
Our farm's purpose and our mission is to feed folks who are food insecure. We grow vegetables and fruits for local pantries. You can join us with our garden surpluses. Local food pantries are happy to receive them.

Tomatoes and peppers are starting to sprout. It's going to be a good year for our sharing garden. LET'S Feed the Hungry ...
29/03/2023

Tomatoes and peppers are starting to sprout. It's going to be a good year for our sharing garden. LET'S Feed the Hungry by donating to your local pantry! You can make a difference 🤩

Garlic crop is looking greatđź‘Ť
29/03/2023

Garlic crop is looking greatđź‘Ť

36,000 Garlic cloves is in the ground!
24/10/2022

36,000 Garlic cloves is in the ground!

Two City Kids Family Farm is on Etsy. Check it out!
10/10/2022

Two City Kids Family Farm is on Etsy. Check it out!

Shop items by 2CityKidsFamilyFarms located in Ridgefield, Washington.

Our Etsy store is up and open. Check it out!
10/10/2022

Our Etsy store is up and open. Check it out!

Shop items by 2CityKidsFamilyFarms located in Ridgefield, Washington.

We have 5 varieties of Garlic ready to ship. PM for details!
04/10/2022

We have 5 varieties of Garlic ready to ship. PM for details!

The Sharing Garden is finally looking great. Let's feed hungry people!
29/07/2022

The Sharing Garden is finally looking great. Let's feed hungry people!

Wondering what to do with excess zucchini? Here's an idea! Here's a better one--local food pantries will be delighted to...
04/04/2022

Wondering what to do with excess zucchini? Here's an idea! Here's a better one--local food pantries will be delighted to receive your extra produce. It will find its way to the plates of those who really need it. Plant extra and pick often--no giants please!

Zucchini flour.

Might be old news to some, but you never know right. With rising concerns on wheat costs just thought I’d share it.

There’s probably fancier ways of doing this out there, but here’s how I learned. Easy peasy. Nothing to it.

We love and make tons of zucchini flour every year. You may have heard it called Amish flour or troops flour before. It’s a Staple in Amish and Mennonite household for generations here. It was also embraced in the 1940’s during rationing.

You let your zucchini grow, oversized is actually better. Large to extra large. Marrow sized. I peel mine with a carrot peeler, into thin even strips for less drying time. Or slide it through a mandolin for speed of prep.

Run it through the electronic dehydrator or just thread it. . No large seeds if possible for finer texture. Everything else is fine. It must be absolutely dry. It’s essential. If in doubt always dry it more, any moisture will ruin it during storage

Then run it through a food processor or hand grinder until you have a powdered consistency. It will be a marbled green looking power. Texture is similar to a good quality whole wheat flour. That is zucchini flour. Three large zucchini is about four or five cups for me finished.

It can be used to replace 1/3 of flour in most recipes without any change to the finished products, acts as a thickening agent for gravies, great for breading fish but we really tend use ours for tortillas and bannock since those are our quick go to breads. It also makes great dumplings and brownies.

Store in air tight jars , or we often vac pac ours

For us, we still purchase grains from a local family owned grist mill. So this is free, sustainable, easily produced on site and it has a mild taste. Most people wouldn’t pickup on it. It cuts our flour usage by a third . You can do the same with sweet and regular potato, other squash acorns, and pumpkin. I just find myself zucchini is the least flavoured. Plus we get overloaded by the darn things.
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Here's some great info as garden season gets underway!
04/04/2022

Here's some great info as garden season gets underway!

TOP 7 GARDEN PESTS--WHAT WORKED + DIDN'T

Here is some great information from a survey that Mother Earth News did to learn more about what works, and doesn't, when it comes to limiting insect damage in organic vegetable gardens. They had 1300 gardeners from across the United States respond, so is pretty good. I've included 7 of the top garden pests and info:

1) SLUGS-- took top honors as the most bothersome pest in home gardens, with 55 percent of respondents saying the slimy critters give them trouble year after year. Handpicking was highly rated as a control measure (87 percent success rate), followed by iron phosphate baits (86 percent) and diatomaceous earth (84 percent). Opinion was divided on eggshell barriers (crushed eggshells sprinkled around plants), with a 33 percent failure rate among gardeners who had tried that slug control method. An easy home remedy that received widespread support was beer traps (80 percent success rate).

2) SQUASH BUGS-- had sabotaged summer and winter squash for 51 percent of respondents, and even ducks couldn’t solve a serious squash bug problem. Most gardeners reported using handpicking as their primary defense, along with cleaning up infested plants at season’s end to interrupt the squash bug life cycle. The value of companion planting for squash bug management was a point of disagreement for respondents, with 21 percent saying it’s the best control method and 34 percent saying it doesn’t help.

Of the gardeners who had tried it, 79 percent said spraying neem on egg clusters and juvenile squash bugs is helpful. About 74 percent of row cover users found them useful in managing squash bugs.

3) APHIDS-- were on the watch list of 50 percent of respondents, but the success rates of various control techniques were quite high. Active interventions, including pruning off the affected plant parts and applying insecticidal soap, were reported effective, but so were more passive methods, such as attracting beneficial insects by planting flowers and herbs. Several readers noted the ability of sweet alyssum and other flowers to attract hoverflies, which eat aphids. “We attract a lot of beneficials by planting carefree flowers in the vegetable garden, including calendula, borage, zinnias, cosmos and nasturtiums” (Midwest, more than 20 years of experience).

4) SQUASH VINE BORERS-- had caused problems for 47 percent of the survey respondents. The best reported control methods were crop rotation and growing resistant varieties ofCucurbita moschata, which includes butternut squash and a few varieties of pumpkin. TheC. moschata varieties are borer-resistant because they have solid stems. Interestingly, if you’re attempting to fend off squash vine borers, lanky, long-vined, open-pollinated varieties of summer squash (zucchini and yellow crookneck, for example) may fare better than hybrids, because OP varieties are more likely to develop supplemental roots where the vines touch the ground.

Many gardeners dump soil over these places, so if squash vine borers attack a plant’s main stem, the plant can keep on growing from its backup root system.

5) JAPANESE BEETLES-- Forty-six percent of respondents reported working in the unwelcome company of Japanese beetles, with handpicking being the most popular control method. Some gardeners grow trap crops of raspberries or other fruits to keep Japanese beetles away from plants. Several commonly used interventions — garlic-pepper spray, milky spore disease, pheromone traps and row covers — had high failure rates.

6) TOMATO HORNWORMS-- were of concern to 42 percent of our survey respondents. Bt and handpicking were the preferred control methods, and several folks commented that tomato hornworms are among the easiest garden pests to handpick (probably because they’re large, easy to spot and produce a telltale, pebbly trail). Many gardeners reported seeing tomato hornworms often covered with rice-like cocoons of parasitic braconid wasps. “I had a lot of tomato hornworms this year, but the wasps took them out! Just like in the photos online and in bug books!” (Mid-Atlantic, more than 20 years of experience). Gardeners named zinnias and borage as good companion plants for reducing hornworm problems.

7) CUTWORMS-- were a concern for 41 percent of respondents, and effectiveness ratings for using rigid collars (made from plastic drinking cups or cardboard tissue rolls) to protect young seedlings from damage were amazingly high (93 percent effectiveness rating). A common practice to reduce cutworm damage is to cultivate the soil’s surface once or twice before planting and hope robins and other bug-eating birds will swoop in to gather the juicy cutworms. Big, sturdy seedlings are naturally resistant to cutworms, so many gardeners said they set out seedlings a bit late to avoid cutworm damage.

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04/04/2022

We are just getting started planning our spring gardens and we are excited! Last year we were able to donate over 2,000 lbs of food to local pantries. Let's see if we can top that this year!

Garlic harvest is in July. Stay tuned for ordering information coming soon!

04/04/2022

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