It’s official. Sense of Colorado has officially changed its name and branding to Farm Yard CSA. We believe the new name more accurately describes what we are doing – farming yards in the city. With this new name and logo come a few changes in the CSA but mostly it’s the same philosophy under a new brand that describes us better.

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Thanks for asking.  Here are a few of the things we were thinking when we turned our yard into a vegetable garden.   We were thinking that we have this yard that doesn’t provide us any joy as grass but as a vegetable garden it provides us with …

…a more interesting yard.
…fresh, healthy veggies for the picking.
…a conversation starter with neighbors, some of whom we’ve lived next to and never even met.

 Along with all that, we were thinking how wasteful it is to water grass in a climate like ours while the drip irrigation we use in our garden is much more efficient and our water usage (and therefore, cost) have actually gone down.  And we were thinking how we’d like to take care of our planet for our children.    We also love the amazingly different taste of a tomato ripened on the vine compared to the ones available in the grocery store. 

And we want to be more connected to  our food… who is growing it… what is (or is not) being sprayed on it … how the people working to grow it are being treated.  All of these values are important to us.  They are probably important to you, too.  But maybe you hadn’t thought of them in the context of growing grass in your yard instead of veggies.  I understand that it’s a little unconventional and some people are taken aback by it when they first see tomatoes growing in our yards.  But if you actually do think about it, it makes a lot of sense.  So thanks for asking what we were thinking.

Would you like to try a tomato?

Mmmm… I just finished my first all-CSA supplied dinner inspired by the tiny garlic bulbs and onions I had left from distributions. I’d like to say that I did so out of committment to eating locally grown food but tonight it was laziness…. that resulted in a totally local dinner (except the olive oil). I started by dicing a few of the small garlic cloves we distributed tonight and a couple of the small onions from last week. I sauteed that for a minute in olive oil and then added a diced potato that I mistakenly harvested yesterday. I let that all saute for a minute and after the potato was mostly soft I covered the top of it all with chopped Red Russian Kale. I added just a touch of water and let it all stew for a few minutes…. It was tasty. It feels like summer finally. I’m eating out of the garden. And I’m distributing big bags of fresh food.

Coming soon …. zucchini!

This happened to our greens today. These were taken after it melted some. Yikes!

Today’s work day was a big success and we accomplished all our goals in just 2 hours. Thanks to Sandy, Deb, John, Steve, Ella, Mindy, Boden, Axel, Xane, Jeanette and Wyoma for making quick work of the tasks at hand. While the adults pulled weeds, caged tomatoes and planted seeds, the kids planted potatoes.