I learned recently that there is a small farm about 4 miles from my apartment. In some places this might be normal, but I live smack in the middle of Silicon Valley. We’ve got suburbs and box stores galore, but other than a one acre corn field about 10 miles from here I had no idea there was any sort of farm nearby.
Full Circle Farm is an 11-acre sustainable, educational farm nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley.
It’s a really cool idea: they’ve leased land from the school district to create a fully organic working farm. They have an educational garden where the sixth graders from the local middle school learn about organic gardening and some of the produce from the farm even ends up in the school cafeteria. I believe we need a lot more of these.
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The garden tomatoes are finally ripe. Well, one of them anyway. I cannot begin to explain how excited I am. The tomato plants are full of green tomatoes and I am waiting patiently for the rest to ripen.
If this first tomato is any indication, we will be having our fill of delicious tomatoes this summer. It was the star of our caprese salad tonight. As much as I love mozzarella (and even made sure to add a little extra to the plate because… well, you can’t have too much cheese), the tomato was the freshest and most flavorful I’ve had in a long, long time. I’m eagerly awaiting the garden onslaught. I’m armed with dreams of salsa, caprese salads, grilled and roasted tomatoes, tomato sandwiches, etc etc. That’s right, Mother Nature, I am ready. So… Bring it.
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We’re having a heat wave. A tropical heat wave. It isn’t surprising, the temperature’s rising. She certainly can can-can. — as sung by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye in White Christmas
It was entirely too hot to cook today. What was the weather like in your neck of the woods? It was mid-nineties here. Whew. So hot I could barely move… it took all the energy I could muster just to lift that margarita to my lips but I persevered. Haha.
We have some tomatoes that are almost ripe. But they have been almost ripe for a few days and now I am getting impatient. I love tomatoes fresh from the vine and these nearly ripe ones will be our first. I think it will be a few here and there at first but then we are going to get overwhelmed… there are a ton of green tomatoes on the vines. Yay! I’m going to make biscuits so that I can have a warm biscuit with butter and a fresh tomato slice. Mmm.
This is a really random post, is it not? I blame nablopomo and a tired brain. Coming soon: something light and fruity, cleaned up cast iron pan, apron making, and maybe some wine notes from the Santa Cruz Mountain Wine Passport this Saturday.
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