Sums it up...

This quote from a Mother Earth News interview with Joel Salatin called "Everything He Wants to Do is Illegal", sums up my feelings today. He says it better than I could anyways.

"The industrial food system views plants and animals as inanimate protoplasmic structure to be manipulated, however cleverly the human mind can conceive to manipulate it.
I would suggest that a society that views its life from that egocentric, disrespectful, manipulative standpoint will view its citizenry the same way . . . and other cultures." -Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms

Read the article here: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Joel-Salatin-Interview.aspx?page=4#ixzz1ljB1KgQA

We still have produce for sale!

Although our regular market season is over, we still have some produce for sale!  If you are in the Lancaster area we can arrange a pick up time so please contact us at glennfamilygardens@gmail.com or on facebook under Glenn Family Gardens!

We have:

Turnips- 3/$1

Kale- $2.50 for a gallon bag

Mixed radishes- $1 a bunch

Decorative Broom corn- $1 each

Rainbow swiss chard- $1 a bunch

Thanks again for a great Market season. 

Summer update...

Alrighty, I updated to the new Blogger so things seems to be back in order :)  Here are those pics I wanted to post from this summer.

Starting in no real order, here is our Amaranth that we grew this year.  That is a 6 foot fence, and the catalog said they would only grow to 6 ft. so that was a fun surprise!  We had a lot of strong winds this summer and the only reason these suckers didn't blow over was because of that fence.  We harvested quite a bit from about 5 of them.  We has good intentions of harvesting from the rest but we got lazy and they went bad :(  Next year we are going to do a better job!  They were so easy to harvest from.  They don't have a hull so they are a great beginner grain.  You just rub them off the seed head and winnow them with a fan on low.  The winnowing was a lot easier then I though it would be.

Here are some of our asparagus beans.  These are fun to grown and get a lot of people to stop and look.  They have an interesting mushroom flavor to me.  They are best stir fried.

Here is a basket of our cherry tomatoes that we grow.  Green, purple, yellow, red, and orange.  These make awesome brushetta :)

Here are our favorite hot peppers, fish peppers.  They have the best flavor and make great hot pepper jelly as well as dried pepper flakes.  We entered some of these in the county fair and we are hoping to get a ribbon!

Some freshly dug Jerusalem artichokes (dirt included!).  Jerusalem artichokes are an interesting plant.  They are a member of the sunflower family and the edible tubers have a water chestnut texture.  I think the flavor is smokey, almost like they have been hickory smoked.

We tried growing Mexican sour gherkins this year which were really fun and productive but a pain in the behind to pick.

And finally a picture of our market table a couple of weeks ago.  Hope you all had a good summer!



So Long Summer :(

I was planning on posting lots of pictures and catching up but Blogger has made some changes that I do not like at all so I will be checking out Wordpress in the next couple of days. I am hoping there format is more user friendly. I will keep you posted!

Weekely Produce Updates Now On Facebook!

As you can see we haven't been putting much on the blog. With John working, farmer's market, and me selling at craft shows, it has been pretty busy around here. For those of you looking for weekly updates on the produce we will have at market please check out our Facebook page by clicking on the first widget on the right side of our page. Even if you don't have a Facebook account you can still see the page.

Christmas time will probably busy for us as well but I am hoping to start posting more stuff. Hang in there with us :)

What we will have this week 8/20...

We will have...

Tomatoes

Okra

Kale

Chard

Green beans

Asparagus beans

Basil

Mini pumpkins

Purple beans

Mexican sour gherkins

And I am pretty sure that is it!

What we will have 8/13...

We will have...

Peppers (jalapenos, fish, pepperoncini, corno di toro, and bell peppers)

Squash (cocozella di napoli, patisson strie melange, yellow crookneck and mini pumpkins)

Genovese basil

Chard

Kale

Flowers

Cucumbers

Okra

Heirloom tomatoes (assorted cherries, and traveler's)

See you there!