Veggie Guides
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Perfect Parsnips
Parsnips are a cream-skinned root vegetable with a delightfully sweet flavor. They are closely related to carrots, which is why ...
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Really Rad Rutabaga
Rutabaga is a purple-topped, creamy-fleshed root vegetable that is great for long-term storage. The flavor is sort of like a ...
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Crazy Celeriac
Of all the vegetables we grow, celeriac definitely gets the weirdest looks and most “what is this?” questions from market ...
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Gorgeous Ginger
Even though ginger is a tropical crop, we are able to grow what is known as baby ginger on our ...
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Wonderful Winter Squash
Winter squash is a broad category of vegetables that contains many distinct varieties, flavors and textures. As a general rule, ...
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Tremendous Tomatillos
Tomatillos are tomatoes’ more wild green cousin. Their plant resembles a tomato plant with sprawling vines that need to be ...
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Crunchy Cabbage
Cabbage is one of the first real staple veggies to make it into the CSA and market. Crunchy, super healthy, ...
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Bountiful Beans
When green bean season comes around in summer, it comes with a bang! We pick SO MANY beans! That’s a ...
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Snacky Snap Peas
Everyone loves snap peas. They are delicious and simple for fresh snacking, great in cooked dishes and dishes, and universally ...
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Cooking with Culinary Herbs
We know herbs are a big category so we’re not going to try to list them all here (or even ...
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Turnip Time
Salad turnips are one of those special CSA veggies that people rarely see in a grocery store (and can feel ...
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Radical Radishes
Radishes are an incredibly versatile vegetable that grows and stores throughout the year, especially in the seasons when offerings are ...
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Mighty Microgreens
Microgreens and pea shoots are delicious baby greens we grow in trays in the greenhouse on a rich compost. They ...
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Lovely Lettuce
Lettuce of all types is one of the signature crops for our farm, frequently included in our CSA boxes, brought ...
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Broccoli Bonanza
Broccoli is a staple crop at our farm and a nutritional powerhouse, packed with vitamin A, C, calcium, potassium, and ...
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Hard to Handle
We grow three crops on our farm that we consider “fringe vegetables”: the kind of veggies our chefs love (and ...
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Zesty Zucchini Ideas
Zucchini is a staple crop for us in summer. It is available at the end of June through September with ...
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All The Alliums
Alliums are the plant family that includes all the onion-like crops we grow (and actually hundreds of species of cultivated, ...
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Amazing Asian Greens
We grow a wide variety of greens at our farm. Some of them are familiar and relatively easy to use, ...
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Lots o’ Leafy Greens
We grow a lot of different greens at our farm, and many of them can be used interchangeably. This resource ...
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Kohlrabi Krazy
Here in Marathon County, we live in what I like to call Kohlrabi Country. In most of the United States ...
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Veggie Guide: Cucumbers
Cucumbers are a well loved summer vegetable at our farm available late June- September. The length of the season is ...
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Colorful Carrots
Cattails Carrots are famous… or at least we like to think so. Maybe it's because they’re sweet and crunchy (and ...
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Bountiful Beets
Lasting from late May through early March, beet season is one of the longest seasons at our farm. Beets are ...
Tips and Tricks
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Grilling Through The Seasons
Peak summer is a most magical grilling season here in Wisconsin, conjuring up images of sweet corn, zucchini, peppers, and ...
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Snacking Through The Seasons
There is nothing more straight forward than combining fresh, crunchy veggies with a tasty dip, but sometimes we need a ...
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Building Better Salads
A skill any CSA member, local food enthusiast, or farmers' market customer needs to master is the art of the ...
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The Art of the Sheet Pan Meal
If you haven't heard of sheet pan dinners before, prepare for your life to get a whole lot easier (and ...
Recipes
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Summer Stir Fry with Honey Tamari Sesame Sauce
We love stir fries at our farm. It's a great way to maximize the number of veggies we're eating and ...
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Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette
This is a great, all-purpose slightly sweet salad dressing. It is wonderful on leaf and butterhead lettuce, spinach and massaged ...
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Sunshine Salad Dressing
Very barely adapted from Cookie & Kate I love the food blog Cookie and Kate. It offers accessible, easy, and ...
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Massaged Kale Salad
Adapted from Epicurious This salad, like most of the recipes shared on our site, is incredibly versatile. Once you learn ...