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Try this recipe with your collard greens

Kickin' Collard Greens

INGREDIENTS

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 3 slices bacon
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1 pinch red pepper flakes
• 1 pound fresh collard greens, cut into 2-inch pieces

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  DIRECTIONS
• Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add bacon, and cook until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, crumble and return to the pan. Add onion, and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, and cook until just fragrant. Add collard greens, and fry until they start to wilt.
• Pour in chicken broth, and season with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 45 minutes, or until greens are tender.

Here's some recent pictures of our free range, heritage breed turkeys

Here's a great soup for these chilly October evenings:

Kale Potato Soup


1 large onion
1 tbsp butter
1 clove garlic

2 big potatoes
1 large bunch kale
5 cups chicken broth(or water)

1/2 tsp salt(or to taste)
black pepper

Saute onion in butter, cooking and stirring until clear and slightly golden. About halfway, add the garlic; when the onion is done, crush the garlic with a fork.
Add the potatoes and 2 cups of broth. Simmer, covered, until potatoes start to soften around the edges. Meantime, wash the kale, remove the stems, chop and
steam.
When the potatoes are very well done, puree half of them with remaining water and the salt and pepper. Combine all and heat gently, correcting the consistency
if necessary by adding hot water or milk.
Makes about 6 cups.

fall spinch and radishes

here is a bed of fall spinach- it had exceptionally good germination and also radishes and arugula. Fall crops always seem to have less bug and weed pressure than Spring and Summer crops.

garlic field in buckwheat

This field was in clover since Spring of 2008. It was plowed under the last week of July and seeded to buckwheat. Its almost ready to disc before it goes to seed. We use cover crops to build and protect the soil.