-
Herb Butter in Cubes: Thyme, Chive, Parsley, and Cracked Pepper
Read more: Herb Butter in Cubes: Thyme, Chive, Parsley, and Cracked PepperChris Izworski turns a peak August cutting of thyme, chive and parsley into herb butter frozen in cubes at Freighter View Farms on Saginaw Bay. A cut-and-come-again harvest, saved for winter.
-
Sixty Onions from Four Square Feet
Read more: Sixty Onions from Four Square FeetChris Izworski pulls sixty onions from a two-foot-by-two-foot patch at Freighter View Farms on Saginaw Bay. Square foot spacing, red and white bulbs, and how to cure them for winter.
-
Zucchini Bread, Three Hours from the Vine
Read more: Zucchini Bread, Three Hours from the VineChris Izworski bakes zucchini bread the same day the squash is cut at Freighter View Farms on Saginaw Bay. Why fresh-grated zucchini should never be squeezed dry, and the full recipe.
-
Monte Gusto Pole Beans: The Best Taste and the Most Pounds per Square Foot
Read more: Monte Gusto Pole Beans: The Best Taste and the Most Pounds per Square FootChris Izworski on Monte Gusto yellow wax pole beans at Freighter View Farms near Saginaw Bay: the best-tasting bean in the garden and the most pounds per square foot on the trellis.
-
The Leafcutter Bees Have Arrived: A Gentle Summer Workforce for the Garden
Read more: The Leafcutter Bees Have Arrived: A Gentle Summer Workforce for the GardenChris Izworski sets out this year’s leafcutter bees at Freighter View Farms on Saginaw Bay. How these gentle, low-maintenance solitary pollinators arrive, settle in, and help a Zone 6a garden thrive.
-
First Snow Peas of the Season: A Cool Spring and the Sweetness It Left Behind
Read more: First Snow Peas of the Season: A Cool Spring and the Sweetness It Left BehindChris Izworski cuts the season’s first snow peas at Freighter View Farms on Saginaw Bay. How a slow, cool Zone 6a spring held their sweetness into a late June harvest.
-
First Broccolini of the Season: An Early April Transplant and June’s Quiet Reward
Read more: First Broccolini of the Season: An Early April Transplant and June’s Quiet RewardChris Izworski cuts the season’s first broccolini at Freighter View Farms on Saginaw Bay. How an early April transplant in Zone 6a became June’s quiet reward.
-
The Chive Blossoms, and the Jar of Pink They Became
Read more: The Chive Blossoms, and the Jar of Pink They BecameFor about two weeks every spring the chives stop being an herb and start being a fireworks display. The clumps that spent all winter as nothing, then all of April as a fistful of green spears, suddenly throw up these round lavender-pink globes on every stem, and the whole bed hums. The bees find them…
-
The Garden Is In, and the Season Turns
Read more: The Garden Is In, and the Season TurnsThe bay was a flat sheet of silver this morning, the kind of early June water that has finally let go of its winter temper and decided to behave. I carried my coffee out past the corner of the garage and stood at the edge of the beds the way I do most mornings, and…
-
The Spring Beds Begin to Take Shape
Read more: The Spring Beds Begin to Take ShapeThe bay was quiet this morning, gray and unhurried, the kind of water that does not push or pull but simply holds. I walked the path between the raised beds with coffee in one hand and the wet grass cold against my boots. Three weeks ago these beds were promises. Today they are crops, or…
Bay City · Zone 6a · Saginaw Bay
Chris Izworski · heirloom seeds, raised beds, and the slow weather of the Great Lakes
Hello,
I’m Chris
Freighter View Farms is my small raised-bed garden on Saginaw Bay: heirloom tomatoes, seed envelopes, spring trays under lights, and the slow work of learning one piece of ground.
Start here if you are new, or walk into the garden notes and see what the season is doing.
In the beds now
Come back with the season
I send garden notes when there is something worth carrying back from the beds.
Freighter View Farms | Chris Izworski 