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and we’re here too…
Thursdays
5 — 6:30 pm
St James
Catholic Church
Charles Town, WV
Sundays
11 am — 1 pm
Community Center at German
and King Streets
Re-opens Saturday April 2025
9 am – Noon
At Samuel Street and Washington Street
Adding a lot of green (and a little red) to winter’s gray
Growing greens and vegetables is a year-round proposition for Blue Mountain Farm. That includes working through the Thanksgiving to New Year holiday season, the cold winds of January, the snows of February and the lingering winter days of March.
Like more and more other small-scale farmers, we’re learning to produce crops through the entire 12-month cycle of seasons in order to maintain cash flow, stay connected with our customers, and keep our helpers on board through the lean winter months.
It makes for a busy schedule -- planting, growing, harvesting — then planting, growing and harvesting — again and again. And it’s always something of an experiment, to see what works in this season of short days, long nights and blasts of frigid wind and sinking temperatures.
Farmer Dave Elliott and staffers Susan Wolcott and Austin Nurenberg have been working with cold-tolerant North American greens, northern European cultivars and Asian vegetables to develop salad mixes and table dishes that are not only nutritious, but tasty and colorful too.
