Roving Donkey Farm

21/11/2024

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The appetizer special this week is very popular. After poaching the octopus until tender, it is lightly grilled and served with our smoked onion aioli. Very flavorful Capperino peppers from Roving Donkey Farm were pickled, sliced and tossed with olives, clementines and arugula for a complimentary accompaniment to the wonderful octopus.

05/10/2024

We love being one of the farms supplying BPS with healthy, local food. Kudos to them for persevering through this process and continuing to grow it every year!

28/08/2024

Are you a vegetable producer in North Dakota and interested in learning more about on farm produce safety? Get yourself registered for the workshop I am hosting with the North Dakota Department of Agriculture and NDSU Extension on September 4th!

30/07/2024

Too early to tell the damage as it’s still storming, but it looked like snow for a while here. :(

13/07/2024

Got scapes?

03/07/2024

How a farm cat avoids the rain?! How is this even comfortable?

30/06/2024

Sometimes the milkweed comes up in the garlic and you leave it there rather than pull it. Every little bit helps save monarch habitat!

28/06/2024

Sentinel sunflower in the high tunnel.

27/06/2024

Tomatoes are taking off! I put them on trellis string that will keep them off the ground and easier to prune and harvest from. Even found some pretty babies. I can taste the Sungolds already!

What’s your favorite tomato?

12/05/2024

This is a day that brings a variety of emotions for me. As a daughter, it is sad. As a mother it is joyful (and exhausted!). As a human it is conflicted. Whatever this day means to you, may it be the day you want it to be.

01/05/2024

Farm work is dirty work and the results of some of that work doesn’t show until plants are growing and producing. It is the most important work though, setting the foundation for the seedlings in the greenhouse.

The last week has been spent prepping the high tunnel for the coming season. This special structure requires special care and this year the beds needed to be reshaped.

After a fair amount of raking, spreading of amendments, shaping, harrowing and covering the soil back up, we have watered in the additions and now we let nature take its course.

The tomatoes will be here before we know it!

24/04/2024

Doesn’t look like much now, but very soon I’ll be picking rhubarb and walking onions. Asparagus won’t be far behind! Yay, spring!

15/02/2024

My son told me he had to show me something in the living room before we left for school. Good eye, buddy, good eye!

13/01/2024

Stay warm out there folks! I hope the high tunnel plastic holds! 🥶