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Advice for the times

March 2, 2020
Volume 1,669
“How do we feed the nine billion?” Fiennes said – “Through functioning ecosystems.”
Dear Friends,
My passion for good food goes back to childhood – helping and watching my mother, my grandmother and my aunts procure, prepare and serve good wholesome food. A lot of it came from other people in the area – the milk, vegetables, fruits and eggs. And we knew these people. They were friends and neighbors. Good memories and a cornerstone of the chutzpah to have a farm. There’s nothing more that I’d like to see than more and more neighborhood farms, committed to financially and philosophically by the patronage for which they provide.
There is a lot of scary news right now about the corona virus and all of it’s implications. I just can’t stress enough the importance of local food and local security. Especially with this situation where vigilance, good fresh food and time outdoors can improve both your mental stamina and your health. Support your closest local farm. You want them to sustain themselves and flourish. Donate funds for always needed farm projects, volunteer, promote them. Farmers have a wealth of knowledge and experience behind them. All qualities and attributes necessary especially in a crisis situation.
How do you feed the peoples of the world and protect the environment too? One neighborhood food at a time.
There’s a saying about farmers.They’re only as good as the land they walk.
Enjoy your fresh flowers, fruits and veggies for the week.
If you would like to help support the farm and our work, please consider signing up for our Hungry Heroes program that donates to appreciative San Diego military families or through Produce for Patriots, the non-profit founded by one of our clients, Rob M. You’ll receive a personal Thank You note from the family that receives. It’s a good thing all ’round.
Here’s to good food, friends, families and helping others. Call or email me if you have any questions or need cooking tips. May our food this week nourish, comfort and sustain you.
Stephenie
The ingredients below will be included in our
March 4th and 5th deliveries and farm pick-ups.
Please keep in mind that last-minute substitutions are sometimes necessary.
Large
Russet potatoes
Bananas
Sprouts
Lettuce
Italian parsley or cilantro
Flowers
Fennel, kohlrabi or sweet turnips
Cooking onion
Collards or Red Mustard
Avocados
Strawberries
Blueberries
Green grapes
Salad Mix
Large, No Fruit
Russet potatoes
Avocados
Sprouts
Lettuce
Italian parsley or cilantro
Flowers
Fennel, kohlrabi or sweet turnips
Cooking onion
Collards or Red Mustard
Kale
Medium
3 ea. Russet potatoes
Sprouts
Lettuce
Italian parsley or cilantro
Flowers
Fennel, kohlrabi or sweet turnips
Cooking onion
Collards or Red Mustard
Strawberries
Blueberries
Bananas
Green grapes
Salad Mix
Medium, No Fruit
Russet potatoes
Sprouts
Lettuce
Italian parsley or cilantro
Flowers
Fennel, kohlrabi or sweet turnips
Salad Mix
Juicing
2 bsk Broccoli
Bananas
Sprouts
Italian parsley or cilantro
Fennel, kohlrabi or sweet turnips
Kale
Strawberries
Blueberries
Red grapes
Baby carrots
Salad Mix
Green grapes
Petite
Russet potatoes
Sprouts
Mini bouquet
Lettuce
Italian parsley or cilantro
Fennel, kohlrabi or sweet turnips
Cooking onion
Collards or Red Mustard
Salad Mix
Fruit Only
Mexican guavas
Avocados
Tangerines
Bananas
Strawberries
Blueberries
Green grapes
Red grapes

Spa Day at the Farm – Not What You Think

October 7, 2019
Volume 1,650
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we’re supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else’s idea of our happiness – what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, ‘Just be happy – go be a cobbler or go live with goats.’
~Sandra Bullock
Dear Friends,
For those of you that have been to the farm, you’ll know this is a photo of Beatrice, our happy, spoiled and well cared for Angora goat. This breed of goat, known for it’s soft warm wool is also known as mohair. The breed dates back to the Paleiolithic area. She is having her fall wool and hoof clipping and is quite happy to have it done. Visitors often ask, “do you spin her wool?” and I chuckle to myself thinking how lovely it would be to have the time and space for such a task. The other inevitable question is, “do you make cheese and soap from the milk?” which leads to the discussion of why you need a male goat (would never want one – smelly and hormone driven) and that one is tricky especially with the children that ask.
The reason I’m talking about this, is this last week have a new set of people that have predetermined that farms with animals treat them cruelly, slaughter them and mistreat them and they’ve contacted little ole us. I’m not sure who the organization is behind this but there was a notice from the SD Farm Bureau not too long ago warning county farmers that there might be trespassers and demonstrations. Again, I did my best to assure the callers that our small group of chickens and goats are extremely well cared for as is the case for the vast majority of farms. When asked if they have ever actually worked or spent time on a farm to see first hand, the answer is always ‘no’. He he..that’s when I invite them to come work for a few days to see for themselves and have yet to be taken up on it. Just another day on the farm in a world that thinks food just appears on the plate.
Speaking of woolly creatures, we located a group of women that make their own wonderful natural goats milk soap, hand wrap the bars in soft and chemical free sheep felt
that make wonderful gifts or spoil yourself with luxuriant lather. Let’s support other small farms to keep them going! Available on our GreenStore.
We know many of our subscribers are enthusiastic about getting freshly harvested food from Seabreeze Family Farm. It would be helpful if you could take a photo of a plate you prepared with your farm share and post it on our Facebook page and on Next Door so your friends and neighbors could also benefit from your neighborhood’s locally grown food.
We look forward to seeing how you transform your Seabreeze ingredients.
If you would like to help support the farm and our work,
please consider signing up for our Hungry Heroes program that donates to appreciative San Diego military families or through Produce for Patriots, the non-profit founded by one of our clients, Rob M.
You’ll receive a personal Thank You note from the family that receives.
It’s a good thing all ’round.
Here’s to good food, friends, families and helping others.
Call or email me if you have any questions or need cooking tips.
May our food this week nourish, comfort and sustain you.
Stephenie
Clicking the image above will take you to our Green Store where you can add items to your delivery.
The ingredients below will be included in our October 9th and 10th deliveries and farm pick-ups
Please keep in mind that last minute substitutions are sometimes necessary.
Large
Gala apples
Bananas
Sprouts
Small tomatoes
Savoy cabbage or zucchini
Ruffled kale
Lettuce
Flowers
Blueberries
Leeks
Green seedless grapes
Salad Mix
No Fruit
Sprouts
Small tomatoes
Ruffled kale
Lettuce
Flowers
Large Salad Mix
Medium
Sprouts
Small tomatoes
Savoy cabbage or zucchini
Ruffled kale
Lettuce
Flowers
Blueberries
Leeks
Green seedless grapes
Gala apples
Salad Mix
No Fruit
Sprouts
Savoy cabbage or zuchhini
Ruffled kale
Lettuce
Flowers
Leeks
Small Salad Mix
Juicing
Navel oranges
Gala apples
Bananas
Sprouts
Ruffled kale
Blueberries
Kale
Broccolini
Green seedless grapes
Salad Mix
Turkish apricots
Petite
Sprouts
Small tomatoes
Ruffled kale
Mini bouquet
Lettuce
Blueberries
Salad Mix
Fruit Only
Navel oranges
Gala apples
Bananas
Small tomatoes
Blueberries
Green seedless grapes
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May 13, 2019 Volume 1,631

“Though snails are exceedingly slow,
There is one thing I’d like to know.
If I out run ’em round the yard,
How come they beat me to the chard?”
– Allen Klein
Dear Friends,
It’s still pretty much happy days at the farm with moisture in the ground and cloud cover so working conditions are still pretty good. For the most part, I present a positive slant on things however, there’s a rant coming. And yes, it has to do with ‘unauthorized reproduction’. They say for every cloud there’s a silver lining and the opposite is true too – for every inch of rain there are repercussions. It comes in the form of blooms of life forms that just adore our chemical free land. Fellow gardeners will understand when I say that wresting food and flowers from the earth is a battlefield!
Here’s a partial list:-rabbits, squirrels, gophers, voles, raccoons, skunks, black and brown widow spiders, aphids, plant fungus, snails, slugs, raccoons, skunks, lots of snakes (good and ‘bad’) and weeds…back breaking soul tormenting weeds..invasive, sneaky, pervasive and overwhelming. So back on goes my hat and gloves..there are battles to be won!
Flowers are a wonderful gift for friends, family or associates. We’d be happy to include an extra bouquet or two to your deliveries. They’re available through the Green Store or drop me a line and we’ll include them for you.
Thank you for all for your support. As the last little farm in the whole area, sometimes we feel like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke holding back catastrophe. We remain stalwart.
Happy cooking and smelling the flowers!
If you would like to help support the farm and our work,
please consider signing up for our Hungry Heroes program that donates to appreciative San Diego military families or through Produce for Patriots, the non-profit founded by one of our clients, Rob M.
You’ll receive a personal Thank You note from the family that receives.
It’s a good thing all ’round.
Here’s to good food, friends, families and helping others.
Call or email me if you have any questions or need cooking tips.
May our food this week nourish, comfort and sustain you.
Stephenie
Ingredients for the week of May 13, 2019

April 29, 2019 Where Would We Be? Volume 1,629

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you’re going to the grocery store, you’re voting with your dollars. Support your farmers’ market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.
– Alice Waters
Dear Friends,
Where would we be without bees? These incredible little creatures flourish here at the farm. Besides our trees and shrubbery there are literally thousands of flowers blooming right now and the fields and gardens shimmer with the the movement of bees busily collecting the pollen for the hive. Try seeing this in a commercial mono-culture ‘crop’ of any kind. People often ask me ‘what do you do about the bugs?’ and my answer is simple..”which ones”? When you have an environment as complex and diverse as Seabreeze, there really isn’t an opportunity for any one species of destructive bugs to take hold. Oh, I take that back..except for the massive colonies of Argentine ants that have taken over the world! Dreadful tortuous things!
So for all the little creatures and flora that live here, we thank you our customers for supporting this little ecology center and all the life forms in it that we protect. There’s no other place like it that I’ve ever seen.
Happy cooking.
Flowers are a wonderful gift for friends, family or associates. We’d be happy to include an extra bouquet or two to your deliveries. They’re available through the Green Store or drop me a line and we’ll include them for you.
If you would like to help support the farm and our work,
please consider signing up for our Hungry Heroes program that donates to appreciative San Diego military families or through Produce for Patriots, the non-profit founded by one of our clients, Rob M.
You’ll receive a personal Thank You note from the family that receives.
It’s a good thing all ’round.
Here’s to good food, friends, families and helping others.
Call or email me if you have any questions or need cooking tips.
May our food this week nourish, comfort and sustain you.
Stephenie
Ingredients for the week of April 29, 2019

March 4, 2019 Volume 1,621

Dear Friends,
Let’s start with ‘good news’ like talking about snow peas! We have a small crop producing, unfortunately not enough for an item for everyone (the raccoons ravaged the roots of most of them) and they can be added to your deliveries for the next couple of weeks through the Green Store. They are so sweet and crisp and take just a minute or two to stir fry..that is if they’re not eaten raw just out of the bag. They take a lot of time to harvest but are so worth it! don’t miss out!
For more serious news, I’d say most people if polled would say they think local farms are important to a community. But seriously, how many neighborhoods or communities even have a local farm anymore? I think you know the answer. Seabreeze has managed 30 years now to continually and determinedly grow food, flowers and protect the ecological environment for our fellow San Diegans and have done so with the support and participation of our loyal subscribers. And things change..people move away or have circumstances change and can no longer continue their support. So we are asking you, our readers and current shareholders to help keep the farm’s base secure by signing up for our military family program, We’re on a campaign to provide for 10 more military family donations through our Hungry Heroes service this month. You can choose a weekly donation, every other week, or even once a month. It’s quite important work. If anyone has questions or suggestions, please feel free to give me a call and I’ll be happy to answer questions or help set you up. Will you be willing to join us in such important work? I look forward to hearing from you and will report next week on our progress.
If you would like to help support the farm and our work, please consider signing up for
our Hungry Heroes program that donates to appreciative San Diego military families
or through Produce for Patriots, the non-profit founded by one of our clients, Rob M.
You’ll receive a personal Thank You note from the family that receives.
It’s a good thing all ’round.
Here’s to good food, friends, families and helping others.
Call or email me if you have any questions or need cooking tips.
May our food this week nourish, comfort and sustain you.
Stephenie
Ingredients for the week of March 4, 2019