tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46075055856435315642024-03-08T15:57:05.259-08:00Little Gnome FarmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607505585643531564.post-41562311272456891562016-02-01T17:42:00.000-08:002016-02-01T17:42:26.891-08:002015 True Farm- to - Table<div id="E23" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E23" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Arimo, 'Microsoft Sans serif', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0px 8pt;">
<span class="qowt-font2-Georgia" id="E24" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E24" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Book Antiqua', serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Little Gnome Farm makes its home on 10 acres of beautiful, leased farm land in Ridgefield Wa. 13 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon.. About half of these acres remain fallow fields and at any one time 3.5 acres in vegetable crop production. 2015 was the first year selling exclusively to restaurants, priors years I also managed a 30 member CSA and sold at several area farmer’s markets. </span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-Georgia" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E24" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Book Antiqua', serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Developing a personal relationship with a local chef has allowed me to concentrate my efforts on a single market although at the high points of the harvest several other restaurants added our produce to their menus. I want to bring familiar favorites to your plate, while expanding your palate. Over 70 varieties of vegetables came from these fields this year: from arugula to zucchini, herbs to salad mix. Our growing methods focus on flavor and sustainability, from using bio-intensive techniques on our raised beds while building the soil through cover cropping and crop rotation for the rest of our fields. In 2015 we also raised both ducks and chickens for their eggs. . And as stewards of our farmland, we are also stewards of health providing nutritious, wholesome food under the guidance of a thoughtful and deliberate food safety program.</span></div>
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<span class="qowt-font2-Georgia" id="E26" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E26" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Book Antiqua', serif !important; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">2015 was fantastic. Every tomato we pulled off the vine, cracked and blemished to beautiful perfection, ended up on someone’s plate or got jarred up for future use. Clyde Common canned 4,000# of tomatoes this season which really made all the effort into growing these love apples more than worth it. Over 800# of peppers have been smoked and fermented to turn into hot sauce or pickled and preserved. Tat Choi and PAc Choi was made into kimchi and the overabundance of zucchini and lemon cucumbers were made into fermented pickles. Padron peppers have been dried and are ready to be ground into chili flakes. Having an outlet for our produce and adding value has really helped our bottom line and gets my wheels turning on what we can grow for next year that can be turned into a delicious preserve. We also grew late season crops to extend our season. Mustard Greens, Fennel and Hakurei Turnips. Black Spanish radishes are spicy and delicious during the winter when you need an extra kick to your meal. Watermelon radishes are beautiful sliced thinly in a salad. Hakurei turnips keep very well in our cooler and can be roasted, whipped, or pureed. Carrots, cabbages, daikon radishes, and winter squash will keep our season going through the winter.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4607505585643531564.post-84711855266189881412014-04-08T10:05:00.001-07:002014-04-08T10:05:12.526-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">If you are able to pick up your CSA on Sundays at the Montavilla Farmers Market in SE Portland you can now use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) card and receive Market tokens to purchase your weekly CSA share. At only $25/ w</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">eek for a family share or $16 / week for a small share, our CSA is an affordable way to receive a diverse array of the most brightly colored and succulent leafing, budding, fruiting, rooting and sprouting vegetables. To help your SNAP funds go further, when you pay for your weekly share you will receive an extra $5 to spend on fresh food from our market stand. Contact us for more information about using SNAP to join our CSA.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #472902; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Our farm is a commitment between individuals
or families and us, where people buy into our farm as members at the start of
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enjoy fresh
locally grown vegetables. Our careful variety selection and biodynamic
growing practices bring out the very best in flavor!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Gnome Farm, you also benefit the local economy. Little Gnome Farm both
provides jobs and also recycles money by purchasing supplies from other
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<span style="color: #472902; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">At Little Gnome Farm we believe that there is a better way to
farm than the chemical status quo that has dominated the American landscape and
food system during the last half century. We believe that by working with the
natural rhythms of the soil, plants, people and microorganisms we can grow
excellent tasting food without the environmental and health risks that can
accompany chemical intensive farming practices. We practice Organic Farming and
strive to reach the goals associated with a farm managed as a holistic system. We
always seek to meet and exceed not only the letter of the organic farming
rules, but also the intent of a Biodynamic farm. As farmers we never use
chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides or genetically modified plants.
Instead we rely on things like compost, crop rotation and cover crops to keep
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