Hearty Butternut Soup

Thank you to Linda for this post!

With a few hundred pounds of squash in our basement, we have tried many variations of butternut soup, many of which got poured down the drain. The taste just wasn't there or the texture was icky, to use the girls' words. Today, I finally found a variation we all liked.

Hearty Butternut Soup

2-3 pounds butternut squash
2 small onions, chopped
2 carrots, peeled and sliced thin
1 tsp minced garlic
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon majoram
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup milk
1 cup chicken broth

1. Prepare butternut squash ahead of time by baking for 40 minutes at 400 degrees. Cool. Then, peel and dice into chunks.
2. In a large saucepan, saute onions, carrots, and garlic in butter until onions are translucent.
3. Add flour, majoram, salt and pepper. Stir on medium-high heat for one minute.
4. Add milk, stirring constantly.
5. Stir in cubed, peeled squash.
6. Stir in chicken broth. Reduce heat to simmer.
7. Allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes.

Hearty Butternut Soup

Transplanting Lettuce

We finished up transplanting some lettuce and Tatsoi today. I have learned that transplanting lettuce is an easy way to grow lettuce.



Enjoy!

Jay

Transplanting Lettuce

Last Farmers Market

I almost never get a chance to take pictures of our market stand in the summer. We are usually sooo busy, we are just lucky to get the produce on the table. Opposite direction Another Market

Here are the tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. Enjoy!

Last Farmers Market

Salad Bar

Anyone want a salad?

The whole big building


Lettuce Bed


Black Seeded Simpson


Red Sails



Green Oakleaf


Red Oakleaf


Winter Density Romaine


Rouge D'Hiver


Jericho Romaine


Winterbor Kale


Red Russian Kale


Bed of Napa Cabbage, Bok Choy, Kale, Romaine



Napa Cabbage


Red Cabbage


Spinach

Salad Bar

Fall/Winter Season is here

The fall and winter growing season is here. We have had our first freeze. Usually we slide into a freeze, this year we jumped in with two feet! We had a low of 22-23 degrees. All the warm season stuff is gone outside. The turnips, radishes, leeks and carrots are just fine.

We were able to save the late tomatoes by running a heater on them for two nights. We did have some damage, but they are still looking good.

Here are some pictures of our high tunnels this time of year.

Big Tunnel with carrots, spinach, Kale, green onions, lettuce, bok choy, napa cabbage, arugula and swiss chard.



Another tunnel with Cabbage, Napa Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Chard and Bok Choy


Here is our other building with Spinach, turnips, and radishes



Finally, here is a poor picture of our Late tomatoes.



I hope we can keep them going until Thanksgiving.

Fall/Winter Season is here