Watermelons are finally here and our shareholders couldn’t be happier! Did you know that a watermelon contains about 6% sugar and 92% water by weight? Last week at our distribution, Alex and Nicolas weighed one of our Georgia Rattlers at around 20 pounds! The fruit is not only delicious, but is ultra-hydrating and contains large [...]
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This week at the farm…bees love watermelons!
Posted in CSA, Eating Well Column, Farm and Garden on August 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A Rose Isn’t A Rose: The Gift of Garlic, Scent From Above
Posted in Eating Well Column on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Daniel Doyle, Yokna(patawpha) Bottoms Farm Oxford Eagle, March 2011 It seems that every month when we sit down to discuss the next incredible vegetable we want to examine it manages to outdo its predecessor with an exceedingly impressive profile. So, true, is it once again with our friend garlic (though cilantro was quite the [...]
Dame Condimento: The Multiple Personalities of Cilantro
Posted in Eating Well Column on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Daniel Doyle, Yokna(patawpha) Bottoms Farm Oxford Eagle, February 2011 Love it or hate it, cilantro is one of the most cherished and simultaneously most maligned edibles in the plant kingdom. You may have come across its green lacey leaves tucked away inside a taco while dining at Mundo Latino, purchased a pesto you thought [...]
Flatulence and Fatuity – Bearing the Cross of Cabbage
Posted in Eating Well Column on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Daniel Doyle, Yokna(patawpha) Bottoms Farm Oxford Eagle, January 2011 While many gardeners and farmers hang up their hoes and turn towards the hearth to endure the cold season in North Mississippi, there are plenty of vegetables that thrive in our relatively mild winter months. Here at Yokna Bottoms, we’ve bedded most of our over-wintering [...]
Chard, Nothing Vulgar About This Vegetable
Posted in Eating Well Column on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Daniel Doyle Oxford Eagle, November 2010 Novelist Tom Robbins evoked a Ukrainian proverb as a warning, in his opening to Jitterbug Perfume; “A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil.” Chard, a leafy green that goes by many names (Swiss chard, leaf beet, sea kale beet, silverbeet, mangold, perpetual spinach [...]
