We're super proud that our naked oats are buried under all that yummy fruit in Stella's oatmeal and granola bowls!

We would like to express our sincere appreciation for all the hard-working local farmers & suppliers; like Adagio Acres, who supply us with our wheat-free, organic oats. Their motto is 'food at a slower tempo' and in our fast-paced world, we believe we can all benefit from taking time to experience life (and breakfast) at a slower pace.

September 24

Making snacks together is a great way to spend time with the kiddos on the long weekend. This picture recipe allows for even the youngest of chefs to 'read' the directions, and is infinitely adaptable to allow for simple kitchen experiments!

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September 03

Farming helps me to appreciate that a human lifetime is a mere blip in history. And we have just a few short years in which we can either build up or destroy the ecosystems around us. This piece of land was our first oat field, and was then planted with alfalfa (waaaaay back in the spring of 2013 when the big kids were just littles). For the 5 years in between, the alfalfa has continued to grow deep roots, pulling nitrogen from the air and putting nutrients back into the soil without any chemical fertilizers, and the land itself has been able to rest and rejuvenate. Now we are breaking up the alfalfa, getting ready to plant next year's oat crop. We have so many unanswered questions about creating a sustainable farming rotation - is 5 years enough time for the soil to be built up rather than depleted by the grain crops? What about weed cycles - will we have 'volunteers' that out-compete our oats? If the whole cycle is not working well for the land, how many more rotations will it take to determine a good sequence? Will we, or the next generation, or the next, be the ones to find equilibrium with the food we eat and the land we occupy?

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August 29

Harvesting our oats!!! (but ask the kiddos, and it's snacks in a shady corner of the field that's the exciting part...)

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August 17

Field Inspection time!

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July 31