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'Tis the Season!

(July 27th, 2014)

Merry Christmas

 The last from our high tunnel!

And a Happy, Healthy New Year!

Sphinx Moth

Hey folks, the hornworms appeared in gardens in our area around the 4th of July last year....so, they are coming. 

Mountain Grainery Open Market - April 27th

10 - 2
See you there!

Goat Cheeses....Baked Goods....and more....

Happy Spring!

Headed for Mountain Grainery's Farmers' Market Saturday  ~
a Sunfield's first.

                         

April 2013

March 2013

Sweet!

We sit at the dinner table and wonder, why does spinach taste sweeter in the winter?

Our winter salads are more delicious than salads harvested during the spring, summer, or fall. Is it simply because fresh, green things are so precious this time of year? No, this firm, deep green spinach tastes distinctly sweet.

So, after many delicious salads and accompanying conjectures, I have googled our question and found several explanations:

1. During the process of photosynthesis the plant produces glucose, or sugar. In the cold weather: "The cool decreases the rate of respiration," says Brent McCown, a professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This means the plant slows down the burning off energy, therefore using up less sugar. As a consequence, there's a little more sweet left in the plant. (Touring the White House Garden, www.npr.org/storyId=121611755, 2009)

White House Chef Kas explains it as, "Sugar doesn't freeze, so spinach produces extra sugars in the winter to protect itself from frost." (whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/16/winter-garden)

2. The leaves get darker and the flavor more concentrated because the plants convert their starches into sugars to lower their freezing temperature in order to survive the cold. 

(www.organicgardening.com/cook/wonders-winter-spinach)

Spinach beds (deep green) in rear.  Dec. 26, 2012

Horn Worm Toes & Butterfly Tongues

Lycopene

August 25, 2012

Zeus

Zeus loves Sunfields' Carrots!

World's Largest Horse

                                                      

                                                         Weight:  3,000 pounds

                                                         Height:   21 hand (7 ft. at the shoulder)

                                                         Age:  9 years

                                                         Breed: Belgian Draft Horse

                                                         Food: 40 lbs. of grain, bale of hay, lots of grass, 

                                                                    and 50 gallons of water - DAILY!

                                                         Home: Castle-in-the-Clouds, Moultonborough, NH

Pile of Beautiful Vegetables

Solar-Powered  Local Agriculture
 Organically Grown

Loads of Hope

Mike has loads of hope for a red tomato.

Any day now......

Antici-pa-a-tion

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A Swarm in June.....

...Is worth a Silver Spoon!

Eleven Lettuce Blend

Eleven Lettuce is a blend of - you guessed it - eleven baby lettuces, and a showing of spinach.

The lettuces (not necessarily in order of appearance):

Waldmann's Dark Green* (green grand rapids)

Black Seeded Simpson (green grand rapids)

Red Sails* (red grand rapids)

Rouge D'Hiver* (red romaine)

Encore Lettuce Mix* of -

  Green Oakleaf

  Red Oakleaf

  Green Romaine

  Red Romaine

  Lollo Rossa

  Redleaf 

  Green Bibb 

*seeds certified organic by MOFGA

foreground - trellis ready for arrival of grapes

Taurus Blend - "The Flourish of Spring"

Our current salad features a mix of lettuce and spinach, 

accented with Bull's Blood beet greens.

Happy Earth Day

Good News for Carroll County Localvores!

Our greens are raised organically, with organically certified fertilizers, and they are free from chemical pesticides and herbicides. We are working on our compost piles to further enhance our soil. For composting, it has been a challenge to find manure from animals that are fed organic grains. We generate our own electricity with a grid-tied pv system. 


This morning, Mike is in the high tunnel planting tomatoes and preparing a bed for cucumbers. 


We're here all day today on this fine rainy day (thankfully!), so any time is good for greens pick-up.  Call your order in ahead  ~ leave a message on the answering machine with the time you're coming. We'll be in and out of the house all day. With the high tunnel, we can garden in the rain!


Thank you for supporting local agriculture,
Mike & Karen
Sunfields Organics
Solar-Powered

Elegance!

Standing Ovation!

The Ovation and Elegance Asian greens (seeded March 11th) are full and vibrant.
We are blending them with Allstar and Wildfire lettuce mixes (seeded Oct. 15th!))
for a healthful, colorful blend.

seeded 3/11

The next batch of spinach - on its way.

Lots o' lettuce for May and June!

Wildfire Lettuce Mix

Wildfire

WILDFIRE LETTUCE MIX:  

  

Tango Green Lettuce

Parris Island Green Lettuce

Royal Oak Green Lettuce

Salad Bowl Green Lettuce

Garrison Red Lettuce

Firecracker Red Lettuce

Outredgeous Red Lettuce




WILDFIRE MIX
The lettuces above with bonus greens mixed in
                                                         (spinach, beet greens, Asian greens)

Spring Tonic

A mix of Ovation Greens, Wildfire Lettuce, Mache, and Spinach, our Spring Tonic is becoming a local favorite. We are harvesting greens from seed which was planted in our high tunnel last fall! Crisp and robust, a light dressing is all you need to enjoy this complex assortment of tastes.

Spring Tonic

Spring Tonic:

Red Russian Kale

Early Mizuna Asian Greens

Tatsoi Asian Greens

Arugula Greens

Red Giant Mustard Greens

Tango Green Lettuce

Parris Island Green Lettuce

Royal Oak Green Lettuce

Salad Bowl Green Lettuce

Garrison Red Lettuce

Firecracker Red Lettuce

Outredgeous Red Lettuce

Spinach

Mache Greens (Corn Salad or 

                     Lambs Lettuce)

Mache