Freckled Fox Farm

🍏 Taking care of (apple) business!
Our farm has a small orchard with apples, pears, peaches and persimmons.
🍏 Over the next few years we are hoping to steward the orchard to help it flourish! Here, Betsy and I are removing apples from clusters so that there is only 1 apple at each cluster spot.
🍏We are looking forward to spraying a protective oil on the trees next spring and grafting our old, full size apple trees onto dwarf root stock. That way our heritage apples (varieties unknown) can live on in a more manageable form.

2 new recipes I’m loving for our garden produce. If you have Swiss chard or summer squash and need new recipes, give these a try!

https://www.theseoldcookbooks.com/sauteed-swiss-chard-and-white-beans/

https://www.familysavvy.com/stuffed-summer-squash/

Betsy and Carter did garden projects for 4-H and mini 4-H. You’re looking at reserve champion for division 1 Plate of 3! The rhubarb is like a family heirloom here on the farmstead. Andy’s dad planted it over 20 years ago. It’s a Victoria Rhubarb and a mostly green sub type.

This is our first year for growing kale (Dwarf Blue Curled Kale) and chard (Rainbow Swiss Chard). We couldn’t be happier with the Kale and Chard! We are in the process of planning to relocate our rhubarb as it wasn’t a very productive year for it and we want to have Grandpa Mark’s famous rhubarb strawberry🍓 crisp! It’s been fun getting to learn more about rhubarb, chard and kale! If you have any questions about them, I’d be happy to help answer them!

Rainbow 🌈 Swiss Chard 🥬 from the garden was growing so nicely! I washed it, removed the leaves from the stems and chopped up the stems. They went in the skillet with the onion and olive oil and garlic. Then a giant amount of chard leaves were added along with fresh lemon 🍋 juice. Leaves cooked down to almost nothing! Well, it was good but after pairing it with tuna on toast it was excellent!!