Farm Happenings at Bluebird Farm
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Farm Happenings at Bluebird Farm

Crunch time!

Posted on November 9th, 2021
Less daylight everyday, but our veggies got to grow with the sun in September and October, so they're going to start "coasting" a bit.  Naomi, our Assistant Garden Manager, is pictured above harvesting sweet and crunchy red round radishes from one of our high tunnels.  We covered ove1 read more »

Customize your Pork Share

Posted on November 2nd, 2021
And add/ trade items for special beef cuts like a chuck roast, giant beef brisket, flap steak/bavette, and skirt steak. Country sausage is great with cabbage. The sage flavor is perfect! read more »

Frost is coming! Bok choy, cabbage, red radishes

Posted on November 2nd, 2021
Cabbage and bok choy cook up so nicely with all the peppers. We will still have bell peppers, sweet Carmen peppers, sweet aji peppers, and hot aji peppers for a few weeks. We just went and stripped the 375 outdoor plants of beautiful fruit before the frost so we can store them in the walk in fridge1 read more »

Pork Share

Posted on October 24th, 2021
Customize your pork items  >>>Note: yes, all the Morganton pickups this week will be as usual: Bluebird Farm, Morganton Natural Foods, and Sat Morganton Farmers Market. It will be the 3 pickups in November- 5th/6th, 12th/13th, 19th/20th that all 3 locations are merged into the Fr1 read more »

Roasted Butternut Ginger Soup Recipe Here

Posted on October 24th, 2021
A spoonful of North Carolina fall flavors.  >>>Note: yes, all the Morganton pickups this week will be as usual: Bluebird Farm, Morganton Natural Foods, and Sat Morganton Farmers Market. It will be the 3 pickups in November:5th/6th, 12th/13th, 19th/20th that all 3 locations are merged1 read more »

Customize your Pork Share

Posted on October 19th, 2021
We have pork shoulder this week plus some special beef cuts available. read more »

Carrot Fields + Flowers

Posted on October 19th, 2021
Arugula this week! Goes well with Orange Marmalade goat cheese, carrots, and toasted walnuts. >>> We escaped a frost at our annual 1st frost date (October 15th-20th) so that means we still have peppers and beautiful blooming flowers. Tiny white buckwheat flowers are blooming in stripes in1 read more »

Important..Read to avoid undervalue Beef Box

Posted on October 12th, 2021
Ground beef. A steer is not made of 100% steaks- there is about 250 pounds of ground beef! I've added a few different ground beef items so that you can swap out how many packs of our 1 pound packs of ground beef that are in your beef share.  We have an item that is FIVE 1 lb packs of ground be1 read more »

Customize your Pork Share

Posted on October 12th, 2021
It's fall greens season.  We enjoy country sausage and chorizo with the fall greens.  We also love the ground Italian sausage with eggplant, kale, and mushrooms. read more »