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Farm Happenings at Root 5 Farm
Customize Your Fruit Share Too!
Did you know you can add extras and swap out items just like you do with your veggie share? We're at peak blueberry season in the Upper Valley, so we're featuring pints of delicious blueberries from Newbury Blueberry. It's a great time to order a few extra pints and make this King Arthur Flour reci1 read more »
Green Bean Machine!
Green beans are a favorite field snack and a satisfying by-the-handful-harvest. Although we tend to eat them raw most often, they're super tasty tossed in a skillet with sesame oil and our chili garlic sauce and served over rice with a sprinkle of toasted garlic and our chili pepper salt over the t1 read more »
Customize Your Fruit Share Too!
Did you know you can add extras and swap out items just like you do with your veggie share? We're at peak blueberry season in the Upper Valley, so we're featuring pints of delicious blueberries from Newbury Blueberry. It's a great time to order a few extra pints and make this King Arthur Flour reci1 read more »
Customize Your Fruit Share Too!
Did you know you can add extras and swap out items just like you do with your veggie share? We're at peak blueberry season in the Upper Valley, so we're featuring pints of delicious blueberries from Newbury Blueberry. It's a great time to order a few extra pints and make this King Arthur Flour reci1 read more »
We're All About Alliums
If there's one food that goes with nearly all other foods, Alliums must be it. Onions and garlic are at the base of just about every delicious meal. In our kitchen, when I'm at a loss for what to cook, I instinctively reach for an onion and a few garlic cloves to get started and then figure the res1 read more »
Keeping it Simple
The shishito peppers are abundant right now — here's a simple recipe for blistered shishitos.
We're on the tomato toast train, a simple meal of buttered toast topped with sliced tomatoes.
And another simple dish? Salad with chopped scallions, cherry tomatoes, fresh chevre and salad dressing.1 read more »
First Week of Fruit Shares!!
We're trying a new feature this year with customizable fruit shares. This week we're featuring blueberries from Newbury Blueberry and apricots from Slice of Earth Farm. You can customize your selection, just like your vegetable share, so mix and match or add extras if you wish. We'll expand our var1 read more »
Tomatoes and Basil, Together Again!
Tomato abundance time is here! San marzanos (romas), rebelskis (slicers), and sakuras (cherries) are all ripening steadily now. Heirlooms are still to come. We also have gorgeous overflowing beds of basil. It's the perfect time to make pesto pasta or tomato and mozzarella caprese salad for those no1 read more »
Always Changing
This week we've been enjoying the diversity of our fields, a beautiful patchwork of crops always changing, new crops going in others coming out. We let some crops like arugula, dill, cilantro, and mustard greens go to flower after we've harvested them once, and it's wonderful to see pollinators and1 read more »