Amber & Mystery Solved

We were wondering about what was across the River from us.  In certain spots, you can sort of see clearing through the trees.

Answer: farm land.  Thank you, Google Maps.

Amber & Farm Share Week 3

This is how I know what to take.

Amber & V-Day

Happy, Valentine's Day.

I wish romance upon you and your piggies today.

Amber & Wrap Up

As regular Amber & readers already learned, my trip to Windflower Farm, birth place of my CSA vegetables and flowers, and visit with Farmers Ted and Jan, was awesome. It started with saying farewell to the kitties, including Ginger who has decided that peaches are his momma and likes to milk tread and suckle their fuzzy skin.

(You can't tell, but he's purring like a happy motor here just being next to his fruit momma.)

The weekend ended with some animal visits, including his Cotswold sheep buddy who liked to have his ear scratched.

(You can't tell but he's super scratchy and scruffy.)

I've upload some more photos, including ones I took of the farm trip and some from Kevin taken during our visit to Elihu Farm (where our egg share comes from) and then at the Washington County Fair.

There's even this one from Kevin of me live blogging the tractor pull.

I think it really captures my journalistic process.

Amber & Good Family Fun

Washington County Fair tractor pull. Would that I knew how to post a sound file remotely.

Amber & Post Pot Luck

Tara, J.C., Diana and Kevin are playing board games. I am waiting for the peach coconut sorbet in the foreground to get frozen. Next: bonfire and smores.

Amber & Tractor Ride

Whee!

Amber & Schedule

Where I will be this weekend. Note 5:30's activity.

Amber & The Calm Before The Storm

Ironically, before our trip to the farm, we are having rest stop lunch. It's the opposite of farm fresh, and the contrast will heighten our enjoyment of the food to come.

Amber & Road Trip

Lizzie, Diana, Kevin and I are on our way to Windflower Farm in Washington County for a sleep over with Farmer Ted. I am so excited! But I also am hungry, craving coffee, and needing to pee. All of those needs will met when we stop at New Baltimore's market. Upstate Club!

Amber & Farm Share Week 11

Assorted tomatoes and peppers and peaches. Also (not pictured on account of how I put it all away before I remembered to take a snapshot and am too lazy to pull it all out again): leaf lettuce, cabbage, fennel, cucumbers, red onions, garlic, beets, parsley, and summer squash. Flower share ended last week with lovely roses.

Amber & She Is Away Again So I Took This Picture Of Paul & The Vegetables

[Thanks again to CRD for this guest post. This week's share: three varieties of tomatoes, fingerling potatoes, green beans, cukes, cobbed corn, green peppers, a frying pepper, celery, and some other leafy thing tbd hiding behind Paul's head. Eggs. Flowers. Lavash
crackers, multigrain loaf, and, this weeks seasonal delicacy for the bread share queso flautas.]

Amber & She Is At The River House So I Took This Picture Of The Vegetables

[CRD actually remote blogged this. Haul this week included: cabbage, potatoes, garlic, slicing cucumbers, lettuce, tomato tease, summer squash, red Russian kale, bok choy, basil to pot, peaches, eggs, orange flowers. Thanks for remote blogging, CRD!]

Amber & Week 5 Farm Share

Green chard, scallions, slicing and diva cucumbers, juliet tomatoes, peaches (!), new potatoes, red and white turnips, romaine lettuce, bok choy, and a kholrabi stem. Plus, eggs and flowers (photo of flowers TK so Diana can identify their breed). Extras: sheeps milk yogurt, granola, kielbasa, italian sweet sausage, hot dogs, chicken breasts and thighs (meat for River House).

Amber & Farm Share Week 4

Eggs, broccoli, cucumbers, snow peas, blueberries, purple kale, green chard, a loaf of bread, poppy lavash crackers, blue corn tortillas, granola, scallions, turnips, a dill plant, and sunflowers (not pictured).

Amber & Farm Share Week 3

Red chard, Italian kale, snowbpeas, two varieties of cucumbers,
flowers, cherries, red and green kholrabi, purple bok choy, eggs, a
sage plant and scapes!

Amber & Celebrities I Know

Kevin and Diana are film stars! They both appear in "What's On Your Plate?" which is a documentary about two girls trying to figure out what foods are good for them while exploring their eating options in New York.

Diana does a classic silent film star appearance picking up her farm share at the Stanton Street CSA, but Kevin actually gets interviewed! Here is a clip from the film where Kevin is talking about what a CSA actually is. And then Farmer Ted's truck rolls in.




I haven't seen the film, but Kevin did and thought he did well enough to allow me to take the fact of his being in the movie "on the record."

Kevin and Diana know so much about food. This week, I am super proud of my friends.

Amber & Farm Share Week 2

Cucumbers, broccoli, baby Japanese turnips, strawberries, romaine
lettuce, basil plant, radishes, red chard, scallions and scapes. Plus,
flowers, eggs, tortillas, foccaccia, lavash crackers, and a loaf of
bread. Plus, extras: sheep milk yogurt, honey, maple syrup, and
granola. Oh my f'ing stomach!

Amber & Nature's Bounty

First farm share of the season! Strawberries, scapes, lettuce, potted
herbs, snap peas, bok choy, red and green kholrabi, scallions, red
kale, green chard, a weird half dozen of eight eggs, and a lovely
bouquet of calendula. I am so excited.