Week 9: August 13th - August 16th We have an amazing team of farmers at 10th Street Farm, working hard every day to seed, plant, water, weed, harvest, wash, and pack every single vegetable we put in our CSA, sell in our market, or deliver to our grocery partners. But there’s one thing we can’t do: pollinate. Well, theoretically we could pollinate - seed breeders do it with Q-tips, going plant to plant and ensuring proper pollination. But there’s an easier way. For us, that e

Week 8: August 6th - August 9th I think I spend too much time thinking about tomatoes. Especially in the winter, when the stores stock round red things that only sort of resemble the tomatoes we know and love. That’s when my mind starts to wander to pink and dark red and orange and yellow and striped heirloom tomatoes, sliced thick on a sandwich or diced into a fresh pico de gallo. I think the seed companies must know this, because that’s when the catalogs arrive. For most c

Week 7: July 30th - August 2nd In the last two weeks, we’ve made a pretty significant addition to the farm - one that you won’t have noticed as you drive down the driveway or peruse the market. Humming away in the back corner of our market barn is a brand spanking new 8x10 walk-in cooler! Well, brand spanking new to us, at least. In reality the panels are around 20 years old, having done a solid tour of duty in the back of a St. Paul pizza parlor. Buying another cooler wasn’t