Recipes and nutritional benefits for your organic produce and a healthier you!
Stuffed Summer Squash Recipe Ingredients: Sage Mountain Farm organic farm fresh vegetables & fruit from this weeks C.S.A. (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share box! Not a member yet? No worries, we’ll give you a link below so that you too can share in the harvest! Full of flavor, our food tastes like it came from…
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On a chilly day like today, a cup of warn Bone Broth goes down smooth! It’s great cold on warm, summer days too! Bone Broth is not only tasty, it’s excellent for your health! It eases joint pain & makes your skin glow! That’s because Bone Broth contains Collagen. That’s right, the stuff they put…
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The smell of fresh soil is in the air! We are tilling the soil today, where last seasons root vegetable crops were planted! With the importation of organic inputs such as manures, composts, and recycling of on-farm organic matter, we condition the soil with healthy, organic plant nutrients that feed the plants, which in turn…
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I’m going to tell it to you straight, I’ve been a vegetarian the past few years but when my blood results came back to tell me that I was alert level low iron deficient, that quickly changed. Thankfully I know where to get the highest quality meat and it’s right here at Sage Mountain Farm!…
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Farm News: Storm Update Over the past few weeks the farm has been hit by a series of devistating storms. The first week in Feb brought 4” of snow. Followed the next week by flash flooding that was so devistating it wiped out 2 mountain highways and in neighboring Sage, the surging floodwaters were so…
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Simple, easy, tasty, quick! Baked Butternut Squash on a cold day warms the bones, and the kitchen! On chilly winter days like we’ve had, butternut squash is a healthy remedy for the winter chills. Immune boosting Vitamin B6 & Vitamin C will help keep colds away and the potassium in Butternut Squash is good for…
Read MoreI love a good cup of eggnog around Christmas but who knows what they put in the stuff from the store? Our answer is to follow George Washington’s lead and make our own Aged Eggnog with our fresh eggs and fresh milk and cream… but like most really good things, you’ll need to start this…
Read MoreSome quick tips on how to break down your CSA box! Did you know that we recycle CSA boxes, and that residential recycling programs don’t accept them? We use wax boxes to keep your vegetables fresher as they travel from our small farm to your door! Since waxed cardboard is not recyclable, don’t worry, we’ve…
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EASIEST EVER Tomato Preservation: Ferment Your Tomatoes: Homesteading Family This time of year when tomatoes are plentiful, we have a great idea to share with you! One of our favorite Homesteading Families just created a brilliant post on how to preserve your farm fresh local organic vine ripened tomatoes, fast AND easy! Carolyn, from Homesteading…
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Using the seasonal local farm fresh organic veggies that came in my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share box this week, I decided to chop them up, throw them in the oven and make a veggie bake! …and even sneaked in a nutritious, weight loss secret while baking! Farm Fresh Veggie Bake Recipe Using locally grown…
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Nothing is better than juicy, sweet, refreshing organic watermelon! We at Sage Mountain Farm know that nothing is more disappointing than getting home to find that your watermelon lacks flavor. Here are some tips from a sustainable farm on how to select the sweetest watermelon! The first to look for is the “field spot”.…
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A hearty, immune boosting blend of nutrient rich super-foods is in order after a late summer cold. I don’t know why they say to “feed a cold”, but my appetite seems to agree. Following my hungry, vitamin seeking gut through Whole Foods, I picked up some organic Wild Rice & Red Quinoa to go with my…
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An Heirloom Tomato Farming Adventure…. If you’ve grown Heirloom tomatoes in your garden, you know their biggest challenge is disease. Heirloom tomatoes are an old-fashioned, non-genetically modified variety of vegetable that possess only a single disease-resistance gene. Unlike the modern, grocery store variety of hybrids, which have generally had disease resistance bred into them, many heirloom…
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USDA Proclaims National Farmers Market Week Posted On: August 6, 2018 It’s now officially National Farmers Market Week! The USDA released the proclamation today, signed by Secretary Sonny Perdue. We hope you all have a wonderful week celebrating farmers markets and the important role they play to support local food, farmers, and prosperity! USDA Proclaims…
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National Farmers Market Week is a time for celebration – and an opportunity to support farmers Posted On: August 8, 2018 by Ben Feldman, FMC Policy Director | ben@farmersmarketcoalition.org This week is National Farmers Market Week — seven days dedicated to celebrating all the amazing things about farmers markets. And that list is long. Whether…
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When greens are in abundance, preserve the harvest by making a super nutritious greens powder! There is a surplus of quality “Green Powders” on the market, but did you know you can make your own at home for a very small fraction of the cost? It’s easy and this is the perfect time of year…
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Today in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) This week’s farm share is a green bounty of freshly harvested goodies, some of which I’m not very familiar with. These deeply vibrant and strong bitter greens call out to me for adventure in culinary parts unknown. Motivated purely by their glowing pigment rich nutrients, I became determined to make…
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A local, farm fresh organic salad medley of mixed greens, baby pea shoots sprinkled with pecans & tossed with scallion onion, radish, carrot and avocado. Keep it simple and use what you have! Seasonal, local produce splashed with an extra virgin olive oil, or my favorite.. truffle oil! Tossed with an organic apple cider vinegar and…
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Sage Mountain Farm is in Coachella Magazine thanks to a feature story about our customer, Justin Eat & Drink! A cozy, farm-to table style restaurant that features seasonal, locally sourced ingredients that “defies definition”. We are proud to be a choice for feature worthy chefs like Justin! Check out the article and next time you’re in the desert, be sure to stop…
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Farm Fresh Spinach Did you know that spinach really is strong to the finish in the fight against disease? The mounting evidence in study after study, acknowledges that Popeye had it right all along. Spinach has the muscle to fight off disease because of it’s rich, green chlorophyll and wide variety of phytonutrients and carotenoids.…
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