Tonopah Rob's Vegetable Farm

Looks like the really cold weather is giving way to not-so-cold-but-not-warm-yet weather and the root crops are responding by springing back with beautiful new green tops. The golden beet greens look like they have been meticulously hand polished by invisible garden elves, (note from the editor; the elves are not invisible, they work while Rob [...]

Well, who knew? There is something you can do with carrot tops besides turning them into compost. Chewing on these fresh, raw, bitter greens you would never know that, when prepared in this soup recipe, they are quite nice. Finding this recipe was not easy as it turns out not many people have carrot top recipes that [...]

Concerns about food imports, declining farmer population, and reduced produce quality in the early 1970s led a group of Japanese women to foster a direct growing and purchasing relationship between their group and local farmers. From this relationship the CSA or Community Supported Agriculture was born, although the name didn’t come along until 1985 when Indian Lane Farm in [...]

Rob has been out early in the mornings getting ready for Saturday’s Farm Stand Vegethon. He reported that even in the cold first light of day the robins have been out, with Rob taking the time to watch one digging for worms. Later, a yellow rump warbler was busy catching small flying insects that are slowed down by the [...]

  Many of you have may be familiar with Michael Pollan’s recent best-selling book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and even if you haven’t, you may already know the distinction between local organic and industrial organic foods. Beyond organic farming there are two other methods: the first is biodynamic agriculture, a system developed by Rudolf Steiner based upon the use of [...]

The lowly rutabaga – what to do with it? Often at farmers markets we see new produce we are unfamiliar with or maybe we simply don’t know a recipe for an item and not knowing how to prepare it, we pass it over. Winter is the perfect rutabaga time as the cold season makes for the [...]

It was barely 8:00 a.m. and if you did not see the blue tents first, just look for all the cars parked in front of the gate. Competition was heavy this frosty morning for the loads of fresh all-natural veggies that were crowding the tables. I think it was the collard greens that sold out [...]

  This Saturday the Farm Stand will be overflowing with fresh all-natural fruits and vegetables. Come out and join Rob and Jerry starting at 8:00 a.m. and going to 2:00 p.m. There will be free HOT coffee as it has been getting chilly out here in the desert. Call Rob at 623-386-3033 for directions or click [...]

Welcome to Tonopah Rob’s blog. This site is just in the wee throes of getting set up. This will slowly be taking shape in the coming weeks, but for now it is up to my wife, Caroline Wise and myself, John Wise, to get Rob up to speed with having his first web site. So, [...]