Beautiful Spring Herbal Salads...Online Store Offering for April 14th

As spring continues to abound all around, so does beautiful bowls of green and herb salads.  Here at the farm we are still feasting on the tasty greens that are putting forth this spring that were overwintered from last fall, but here in a couple of weeks they might have reached the end of their double season cycle so please enjoy them while you can.  This week we have some new herbs that have grown up enough to start offering. The herbs are delicious just chopped up and added to a salad, or used as a pesto-like topping on a pouched egg, or for making an herbal vinaigrette.  This herb mix is a mixture of Chervil, Lemon Balm, Bee Balm (Bergamot), and Violet leaves.  One can make a very tasty salad out of just these herbs, the French Sorrel, chopped Scallions and Bunching Leeks, nuts, Hard Boiled Egg, salt & pepper, and some oil and vinegar.  Please take a look at the Arugula's Star Farm On-line Store to see if you would like to purchase any of these items or others, to be picked up at our weekly drop-off/pick-up this Wednesday on April the14th.

All the first planted spring crops of greens and peas are coming along well as you can see the peas very well in the picture above. They are really coming on looking lush and leafy!  The spring crops that have been planted for this year should be ready for harvest somewhere in early to mid-may. It will be at this time when we will start having more diversity at the On-Line Store, as currently we are just working with the overwintered fall greens and fresh spring herbs.   We will be making a second planting of spring crops this week, which will include root crops of beets, carrots, onions, radishes and other vegetables of lettuce, cabbage, arugula, celery, radicchio, and kale to name a few.

On this coming Tuesday the 13^th, we will be having the Farm Tour/Picnic Event, so if you have forgotten to sign up then please remember to do so by the end of Monday the 12^th.   The weather is suppose to be very nice, so please come on out and join us for a walk through the fields. All proceeds from this event will be going to the Windfall Agrarian Initiative.  To read more about this even please take a look at our Event Calender. 

Also, on April 17^th there is an event called Trashercise that will be picking up trash along the newly established Old Tennessee Settlers to Soldiers Trail (A discover TN trail and byway), and since our farm is located on this Trail we will be hosting a refreshment stand for those participating in this event.

Thanks and maybe we will be hearing from you and seeing you sometime this week!