Healthy Juices for 2016 Part 2

We hope you enjoyed our first round of Healthy Juices for 2016 Part 1 and are ready for round two! We've done our best to include juices for everyone, from the newbies to the die-hard green juice lovers. Check out the recipes below and let us know if you try any of them!

Refreshing Kiwi, Apple and Fennel Juice

This light and refreshing juice with kiwi, apple and fennel is a perfect way to ease into juicing if you've never tried a juice before. The kiwi and apple are slightly sweet and the fennel only gives a slight kiss of flavor. Get the Refreshing Kiwi, Apple and Fennel Juice Recipe here.

Sunrise Juice

Packed with vitamin C, this sunrise juice is the perfect juice for when you're feeling under the weather, need a little pick-me-up, or want a simple, fresh juice to make. Add in the ginger if you want a little bit of kick to your juice or are fighting a cold. Get the recipe for the Sunrise Juice here.

Clean Green Juice

Simple and with only a few ingredients, this juice is easy to make and a great way to get some fruits and veggies for the day. This has a mild "green juice" flavor. Get the Clean Green Juice recipe here.

Purple Power Juice

This juice with beets, carrots, apple and pear is a great way to play around with varying flavors and see what kind of juice profile you like. Add more pears, apple or ginger if you don't want to taste the beets at all, or stick to just one apple and pear each with no ginger to taste the earthiness of the beets and carrots. We promise you'll like this juice even if you aren't sure about the beets -- adding apples and pears masks the flavor and you can't even taste it! Try the Purple Power Juice by clicking here.

Lean Green Gravenstein

Bok choy seems like it might be an odd choice in a juice, but it actually complements the pear and apple fantastically. In the recipe, we used Gravenstein apples, but any apple will do. This is a great green juice to try if you're new and leery about dipping your toe in the green juice pool. Get the Lean Green Gravenstein Juice here.

How To Add Juicing Fruits and Vegetables To Your Delivery: CSA members - head on over to our online Farm Stand Market to customize your upcoming delivery. On the second page of customizations, you’ll find “Produce by the Case” and can stock up if you want a larger batch of produce for juices. The Market is open from noon on Thursday until 10 am, 2 days before your scheduled delivery day. After you confirm your produce items, click the orange button "Confirm and Continue To Other Farm Products" to add the products to your delivery. 

Not part of our farm family? Find out if we deliver to your neighborhood.

Happy New Year

From the Fields - Thaddeus

Another year – three hundred and sixty degrees around the sun, back to the beginning of the cycle of seasons. The winter is a dangerous time of year for fresh fruit and vegetable farmers. With no crops to tend to, no fires to put out, no broken equipment that needs to be fixed RIGHT NOW, no crops screaming for irrigation water – we get bored. A friend of mine calls this time of year SAD – Seed Acquisition Disorder – because this is the time of year when wild ideas of what to grow are easily agreed to. I have to keep reminding myself, “What we did last year was a big deal. We were really busy and had a ton of problems – keep it simple.” But that just isn’t any fun.


Everyone’s favorite planting-schedule topic are the new varieties – new tomatoes, new greens, we need a blue tomato, new melons, this really cool variety of broccoli. Did you see that winter squash write-up in the newspaper? Do you know how many different Asian greens there are? Check out this amazing eggplant! Ever heard of a Cipollini onion? Chinese long beans are amazing! Why did we stop growing seeded watermelons? I am not going to lie: I love it, but every winter, it gets me in trouble next year.


This is the season that I think of my mom the most. She loved this part. As a child, I have fond memories of the winter. Our living room was warmed by a roaring fire that was the only source of heat for the house. The concrete, slab floor covered in burgundy rectangle tiles held the heat well. While my brothers and I would be playing a game of “let’s see who can keep our butt on the fire the longest,” our mom was sitting at the dining room table clearly working on a project. The table was covered in seed catalogues and each one had strips of paper sticking out of it marking the selection. On a piece of paper (mind you this was before computers), mom had a list going in her impeccable hand writing. Each catalogue had a center piece that tore out and served as an order form and envelope. Mom would fill this out for each catalogue, cross out the selection on her master list, calculate the price and insert a hand-written personal check. At the end of the process, a stack of envelopes filled with orders would go to the post office. Mom loved it. She loved trying new things, and there were lots of gems she found along the way.


As the years add up, I can’t help but notice that I once was my mother’s son on this topic, and now I have been weathered into a more conservative point of view. Having done this for 15 years now, I have noticed that I have my list, my proven performers, narrowed down by year after year of mini disasters rooting from the wrong variety. I now look at others with caution. “Why fix something if it isn’t broken” I ask myself. I step back, take note, and remind myself our farm was built on new varieties, and we must never stop trying, but the plots don’t need to be as big when we experiment. A blue heirloom tomato, pink and black cherry tomatoes; Gai Lan; Komatsuna (a Japanese mustard spinach) and pea shoots are on the list for next year. If you have any ideas that you think I might like, share them on our Facebook page. Happy New Year and know we are making a plan for your seasonal selection of vegetables right now.

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Healthy Juices for 2016 Part 1

Ugh, the holidays are almost (finally) over and we're ready to get back on track health-wise. Are we the only ones who overindulged in 10,000 different Christmas cookies chased with glasses of egg nog? Anyway, we're ready to start our mornings with some fresh juices or at the very least eat something green for the day. There are juices here for everyone, from the newbies to the die-hard green juice lovers. Check out our recipes below and be sure to check out our Healthy Juices for 2016 Part 2 for another round up of delicious, healthy juices.

Kiwi and Pear Green Juice

While kiwi, pear and celery might sound like a strange combination for juice, we promise you'll love this juice even if you aren't a fan of "green" juices. This juice is slightly sweet and totally refreshing! Get the recipe for Kiwi and Pear juice here.

Refreshing Turmeric Tonic

Still trying to kick that winter cold? We love drinking this turmeric tonic from Bon Appetit to prevent or get over colds during the holiday season when everyone is in close quarters. The turmeric and ginger give this tonic a slight kick that we love. Try the Refreshing Turmeric Tonic now.

Get Your Greens On Juice

This healthy green juice with kale, apples, parsley and lime is good, but not for the faint of heart. (We like it, but it's definitely a potent green juice). Get the recipe for this Get Your Greens On Juice here.

Get Well Juice

We adapted this healthy, cleansing juice from Bon Appetit. Drinking this ginger and turmeric juice when we have a cold instantly makes us feel better! Try the recipe for our Get Well Juice here.

Do you have any favorite ingredients you like to juice? Also, don't forget to check out our Healthy Juices for 2016 Part 2!

How To Add Juicing Fruits and Vegetables To Your Delivery: CSA members - head on over to our online Farm Stand Market to customize your upcoming delivery. On the second page of customizations, you’ll find “Produce by the Case” and can stock up if you want a larger batch of produce for juices. The Market is open from noon on Thursday until 10 am, 2 days before your scheduled delivery day. After you confirm your produce items, click the orange button "Confirm and Continue To Other Farm Products" to add the products to your delivery. 

Not part of our farm family? Find out if we deliver to your neighborhood.