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Wild Hare Organic Farm

4520 River Road East
Tacoma, WA, 98443
(253) 778-6257

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Wild Hare Weekly, Spring #8/10: Tomato Planting, Turnip Greens, Asparagus & Green Garlic →

May 12, 2025 Katie Green

Things we’re fired up about this week:

  1. Roasting spears of Asparagus and long pieces of Green Garlic at 400 degrees for 10 minutes with a little bit of Olive Oil and eating them every day until the season runs out.

  2. Turnip Greens—the last lush and lovely crop to be harvested from a greenhouse that is destined for…

  3. Tomato Planting!

The number of times the words “Frost Free” have come out of Mark’s mouth as he paced around, slapping a clipboard filled with crinkled papers and notes of all kinds, is…alot. He’s…alot, because the farm is…ALOT right now. The crew has tackled the most random, grunty tasks scrawled out on Mark’s seemingly infinite to do list, checking irrigation equipment for holes, moving and checking out long swaths of landscape fabric for mulching, seeding, mowing, weeding, laying row cover over tender plants, and clearing beds in greenhouses—the majority of which is intended to set us, and the thousand or so Tomato Plants we’re putting into the ground, up for success.

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Wild Hare Weekly, Spring #7/10: Green Garlic & Organic Tomato Plants →

May 5, 2025 Katie Green

Now, I know a mother is not supposed to pick favorites, but Green Garlic is my favorite Spring vegetable…and it is ready for harvest this week! If left in the ground each stalk would eventually swell out into a fully mature bulb of garlic, but we pick it in its "green" state, because it is very mild, tender and brings out the best in so many other Springtime foods and meals. Green Garlic is very easy to love, because it takes very little effort to cook, which I find helpful during the busy planting season.  So many good, last-minute meals start with a bit of olive oil, chopped Green Garlic and whatever random vegetables or proteins I've been neglecting in the fridge. Greens?  Into the garlic.  Nuts, Prawns, Tofu?  Into the garlic.  Potatoes?  Asparagus? Pizza? Grains? Pasta? Salads?  You get it. Green Garlic is the perfect foundation for the very best stir fry you’ll have all year, and judging by the looks of the Mustard Greens and Baby Kale that are coming out of the greenhouse, I stand by my bold claim. It looks like this year’s crop is actually starting to thicken out at the base of the stalk already, and you can just cut across the bulb and continue up the stalk like you would with a Leek or Green Onion.

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Wild Hare Weekly, Spring #6/10: Spring Onions, Asparagus & All About Cover Crops →

April 28, 2025 Katie Green

April is on its way out, and in addition to letting you know that

  • Washington Asparagus Season is here

  • Olykraut is restocked at the farmstand, with a few exciting new additions!

  • the crew pulled some wonderful Spring Onions and Baby Bok Choy for this week

  • and we will begin selling Tomato Plants NEXT week on May 6th.  It is too cold to harden the plants off properly tonight, so we’re going to pitch things to the first full week of May. 

I thought you might enjoy a little snapshot of what Farmer Mark has been up over the past few days and tell you a bit about Cover Cropping at Wild Hare.  You may have heard the phrase tossed around here and there as it is a practice employed by many organic and regenerative growers, but have you ever seen Cover Cropping in action?  Do you know what it means in practice?  Perhaps not.  It is a slow process involving months of growth, dormancy and multiple passes on a tractor for a farm of our scale.  But, Mark has made a commitment to working out the kinks to work Cover Crops into our farm plan, because building soils is paramount to what we’re trying to accomplish.

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4520 River Road East, Tacoma, WA 98443
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