Beef and Flowers

Good Morning America,
I would like to start off my blog post today with a SHOUT OUT to Wade Caslin of Wades Custom Meats and Processing. Wade is a life-long butcher and a member of the whipstone family. If anyone out there has meat they need processed or animals to be slaughtered, Wade is your man.
For dinner last night we indulged in some big beefy beef short ribs. THey came from a grass-fed beef that we purchased with wade, which we then feed out with corn for the last couple months before the slaughter. This is our personal preference for taste, and when one finishes off a beef with corn, you get that yummy marbeling and fatty texture. they were some seriously good eating. i browned them in the cast iron, braised them in a  yummy braising liquid, and once the meat starts to fall off the bone, i finished them on the grill. it was so good.

And now for the flowers. There has been a lot of expanding and experimenting with fowers at the farm, especially within the last couple years. As a result, we have a variety of flowers blooming now, between the green house and the field, and man are they beautiful. It is tricky to create a market for flowers, or veggies for that matter, early in the spring before the farmers market or the CSA starts. Shanti has been posting up at our csa pickup location on tuesday afternoons with flowers, eggs, and dried chiles. and maybe, as we have more and more produce earlier in the year, we can start to develop a viable spring market. FLowers: Ranunkulous, daffodils, tulips. Chiles: dried and dried smoked chilepenos, jalapenos, habaneros, sugar chiles, chile de arbol, cayanne, (theres more and my spelling is terrible, but i have to go to work!)

Real Quick; transplanted brassicas yesterday, which is a plant family that includes broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and lots more. our cauliflower froze when the plant starts were put outside, so we were only able to scrounge two beds worth, but there are five beds of broccoli and five beds of cabbage. Drip tape, sand bags, row cover... and pretty soon those little, yellowish, not so healthy looking transplants will turn into big beautiful green plants. 

Ok America, it is 8 A.M and i am officially late for work, but i had to get the word out to my readers. This is the kohlrabi king, signing off. Good day and Good luck.