Friends, we invite you to Coastal Bend Health Foods today and tomorrow to shop at a local store that would love to have your business. To prepare for your Memorial Day weekend celebration, we offer a wide variety of freshly picked produce. We offer fresh chickens today and tomorrow. Stop by Kimmi’s store and discover the difference our heritage [...]
Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category
End of May Harvest
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Vegetables, tagged edible squash blossoms, food, harvest, heritage farming methods on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Spring Gardening Series: Ideas for a Chemical-Free Garden
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Vegetables on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friends, we are pleased to announce that Four String Farm will host a series of gardening discussions, “Ideas for a Chemical-Free Garden”, at Coastal Bend Health Foods this spring. Join us on the first and third Saturdays in March and April from 11:00am to noon, for a fun and interesting exploration of chemical-free gardening. The first session [...]
Red and Green Christmas Tomatoes
Posted in Vegetables on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friends: Stop by Coastal Bend Health Foods this Saturday, December 3rd, and try our freshly picked red and green tomatoes. Supplies are limited, get them while they last. This Saturday is the Rockport “Tropical Christmas Celebration”, including a tree lighting ceremony and other events in the downtown Heritage District. Coastal Bend Health Foods is a sponsor and offers some holiday [...]
Okra is Not a Four-Letter-Word
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Recipes, Vegetables on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I never liked okra, and that’s not my fault. I had only ever eaten it slimy, deep-fried, and wrapped in a wad of corn meal. However, my opinion of okra improved greatly when I learned to roast it in the open fire; to sauté it with onions at altitude; to spice the okra with some foreign four-letter-words. A Vegetarian [...]
The Tomato Curve
Posted in Vegetables on July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever wondered why Rockport gets so many tourists in August, but so few good tomatoes? The reason is: “night-time soil temperature”. Tourists love to dig their toes into the hot sand of a Rockport sunset. They want to sway in the warm night breeze as they bar-hop down Fulton Beach Road. However, tomatoes don’t like sand, [...]
A Tax on the Love Apple
Posted in Vegetables, tagged history of tomato, jefferson in paris, tax on tomato, thomas jefferson on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable. But we are taught from childhood to call it a vegetable. Why? Because it’s the law! Don’t believe it? Read on. A Tomato among Chests of Gold The tomato is native to the mountains of Peru. The Incas were the first society to cultivate tomatoes, more than a [...]
Tres Hermanas
Posted in Pioneer Farming, Tres Hermanas Guide, Vegetables, tagged corn beans and squash, farming, gardening, pioneer farming, three sisters, tres hermanas on July 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Tres Hermanas means “the three sisters”. The sisters are corn, beans, and squash. Tres Hermanas is a method of companion planting developed by Native American Indians more than 1,000 years ago. The method was once, and is now again, a secret. But the secret should be told, because these sisters are a beautiful gift. Tres [...]
Who Wants to be a Square Tomato?
Posted in Vegetables on June 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What do you want to be when you grow up? This is a great question, especially if you are a tomato. I ask my tomatoes this question from the time they are seeds. Even before, when I am preparing the soil for the tiny little seed, I think of this question: what do you want [...]
A Love Letter to the Onion Man
Posted in Vegetables on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The tops of our 1015 sweet onions are beginning to lean over. They are ready to harvest. These onions are very special. When I told a chef friend of mine that we have 1015 onions in the garden, she became very excited and demanded exclusive rights to all our 1015 forever. Then she told me about her love letter to the onion man. [...]
Delicious Jellyfish!
Posted in Vegetables on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to get kids interested in eating their vegetables, find veggies that look like jellyfish! We have begun to harvest our scallopini squash. These squash are a cross between zucchini and pattypan and are harvested when they are 3 to 6 inches across. They are very tender with a mild, nutty flavor. The whole vegetable is edible, skin and all, and you [...]
