Tonopah Rob's Vegetable Farm

Here’s a recipe using fresh fennel, green garlic, chard, and lemon for those of you looking for something to use the fennel I currently have available. This combination of ingredients makes for a fantastic healthy side dish. I found the recipe at FineCooking with credit going to Nancy Oakes. I have modified it slightly. 3 [...]

A few days ago, farm volunteer John offered to make the classic dish from the Provence in France, known as ratatouille. First he grabbed a large container and scoured the farm, picking fresh yellow and green zucchini, pattypan and zephyr squash, tomatoes, three types of eggplant, green peppers, purple and yellow peppers, red, white, and yellow onions, and finally some garlic. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]