How to Choose the Sweetest Watermelon

Nothing is better than juicy, sweet, refreshing 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”. The creamy…

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Molto Delizioso! An Heirloom Tomato Farming Adventure Story

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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Celery Leaves

Celery leaves have an intense celery flavor that is delicious and nutritious! Sage Mountain Farm is harvesting a crop of celery today that will be included in their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share boxes this week. However farmer Phil considers it a “crop fail”. Meaning that due to the cold weather, although they have an out-of-this-world…

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Jalapeño Jam and other Add-Ons!

Howdy, folks!  In your CSA box there is always a delicious variety of produce, but did you know about the delicious variety of add-ons that you can get as well?  There is green fed ground beef, sustainably raised, there are farm fresh eggs from free-ranged chickens fed veggies from right here at Sage Mountain Farm,…

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Strawberry Update 

 STRAWBERRY UPDATE!! A lot of people have been asking about our wonderful strawberries… Over the years, we’ve been known to grow some of the finest strawberries in the valley!!! Our crop is coming in later this year for two reasons. First, our new farm property is at 4,000ft elevation, our crops come in later than…

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Prepped Veggies for the Weekend

Hello everyone!  Thank you to those of you who submitted recipes, photos and ideas for using the delicious food that we grow here at Sage Mountain Farm.  I will be posting some of them here so you can see what others are doing.  Keep comin’ back and you will be inspired by your fellow CSA…

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Calling All Cooks!

[polldaddy poll=8891465]Calling all cooks, I want to know what you are doing with our delicious produce.  Asian Fusion?  Organic body care products?  Raw food?  Roasting, blanching, blending?  Give it up, peeps!  I am craving inspiration from you. Now is the time for you to become famous, well sorta.  I mean you never know who will…

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