All About Lettuce!

Whenever I think about Blue Moon’s baby lettuce heads I think about Alex Levine, Whole Earth Center’s beloved deli manager. Last year when I delivered the seasons’ first baby lettuce harvest, Alex pulled a glistening head from the box, tore off a leaf, and began feasting—right there in the walk-in cooler. It was the first,…

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Spring Mix, from Seed to Plate

Let me first state that Spring Mix is just that- a mix of different lettuces and greens, not a certain type of seed or name of a plant. Some of us (*ahem. Myself*) not familiar with farming and growing things may not have known this. Now that we’ve got that cleared up… I hope you’ve…

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A Salad by Any Other Name…

Why is a salad called a salad? These are the questions we (ok, I) ask ourselves as we chomp into the first bites of locally-grown lettuces this season…  “Salad” comes from “sal”, ie, salt. In ancient times (and modern, as well), salt was an ingredient in the salad dressing. As they say, clothes make the…

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How Climate Change is Changing Farming

Farming was never an easy gig, but lately it’s been downright frustrating. Record heat waves, floods, cold-spells, and droughts are cutting into yields and in some instances ruining entire crops. Analysts warn that such climate change-driven extremes could reduce grain production in G20 countries by up to 8.7 percent by 2020 if no significant action…

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8 Things We Love about Spring

1. Cooking with fava beans and asparagus Ashley Lyons, Sales Manager 2. Sleeping with the windows open Emily Boell, Market Manger, Sales 3. Strawberries from Manoff Market Gardens Jeremy Tucker, Sales, Delivery Driver 4. Exchanging jackets for t-shirts 5. Seeing the first flowers blooming Josh Goldsmith, Assistant Market Manager 6. Kayaking in Bucks County Natalie…

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What does it mean to transplant plants?

Here at Blue Moon Acres, we get a jump on spring by starting items that will be growing outside in the greenhouses first, using a method known as transplanting. Transplanting literally means to uproot and replant. We begin the plants in the heated, warm greenhouses in trays, and then gradually transfer them to the ground.…

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Soil. The Other Black Gold.

When we think about natural resource depletion, most of us think fossil fuels, fresh water, or helium. Few would imagine our planet ever running out of topsoil. Yet according to a recent Cornell University study, that’s precisely what’s happening—at a rate of 10 to 40 percent a year, one of our most precious resources is…

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