This week we made our first batch of our Roasted Tomato & Lime Salsa. This salsa is very special to us. It’s made mostly from ingredients that we grew on the farm this year. The paste tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, garlic and cilantro were all grown by us. The tomatoes in...

Have you ever wondered how a person becomes a small-scale farmer?There are no college courses you can take on how to start a farm business (Emily went to school for four years at a prestigious agriculture school and no such course was available). There are no trade schools. There is...

Do you ever feel like you lack community or a sense of belonging? You have your base community of friends, family (if you’re lucky enough to live close to them) and co-workers. Perhaps you’re even a part of a club or weekend sports team, but how many people do you...

This is an article I came across by Mother Jones about the lack of federal protect for farmworkers in US Agriculture. It starts with this story:“Last June, as a record-breaking heatwave baked Oregon’s Willamette Valley, Sebastian Francisco Perez was moving irrigation lines at a large plant nursery in 104-degree-heat. When...