This post is going to be short and sweet because, well……I’m heading out to a steak dinner with my husband! We’re celebrating and the occasion is quite grand!
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while than you already know how much I adore beets. They’re my spirit vegetable (yes that is a thing!) You’ve probably also noticed the lack of meat on this website. It’s not necessarily on purpose, (we’re omnivores) but the truth is, since we don’t raise livestock (with the exception of our hens) we tend to eat a mainly vegetarian diet with the exception of meat we trade veggies for at our local farmers market. With that being said, when we eat meat it’s a treat and we savor every bite!
Our date night out to a steak dinner is because we’re celebrating the best beet harvest we’ve ever had on Tumbleweed Farm. It’s quite ironic because we almost tilled under the section of beets we’re currently harvesting from. The day we seeded them our seeder attachment broke and we had to manually hand seed thousands of beets. It was a horrible day, with high winds and heavy rain (not ideal seeding weather.) We we’re both cranky and to be quite frank, we we’re being complete assholes to each other. After 3 1/2 hours of hand seeding (it should have taken 20 minutes with the seeder) we were ready to kill each other. It was one of those moments on the farm where we felt like we had just wasted time, money and precious seeds doing a task that would not produce. When we were finally able to stand upright after hours of being hunched over we decided that if the beets (which we were 99% positive would fail) produced a nice crop we would go on a date night out to a steak dinner. We’d even dress up for the occasion! We laughed so hard at the idea of celebrating this crop that we almost cried. We knew it was a lost cause but kept our fingers crossed for the heck of it anyway.
Well folks, we seeded those beets 3 months ago and this week we harvested hundreds of big, beautiful beets that are absolutely delicious. We’re so happy we didn’t till under this particular section of the field a few weeks after that first seeding. These beets are the best we’ve ever had and we’re off to celebrate!
In the meantime, I hope you’re hungry for beet recipes because they’re coming in HOT here at Tumbleweed Farm. Speaking of hot, how sweet is that photo of Henry and Taylor sleeping in the shade? The temps still continue to rise here but moments like that are pretty darn special!
Happy Friday everyone!
Congrats! It was great seeing your pictures today, because we also harvested garlic, zucchini, beets etc. in the past days. We don’t have a farm, just a garden. I can’t wait for the beet recipes, because we have far to many beets for just the two of us! It’s the first year we have this garden, so we’re still learning. How do you store your beets?
So happy for your garden! If you look through my recipe archives you’ll find lot’s of beet recipes so definitely start there and I’ll keep posting new recipes soon too! As for storing the beets, remove the greens and keep the roots in plastic bags in a cool place (like the fridge or a root cellar) I hope this was helpful! Happy gardening!
Enjoy your well-deserved steak dinner. I LOVE beets too and look forward to all the recipes.
By the way, I just bought a spiralizer and was hoping to use it on raw beets. Do you have a recipe for that?
Thanks!
What a lovely story! I love beets – roasted, boiled, pickled…anyway they come. Enjoy your steak!
A picture of Henry when he is actually awake! I remember all those posts about how anxious he was when you first adopted him. Great beet story. Enjoy your dinner. You have gotten me to beet liker (which was a serious accomplishment) so I need to take it to the next level this year.
That’s awesome. Congrats!
Enjoy your dinner 🙂
Hi Andrea – I very much adore the stories of your farm! The area you live in is quite wonderful for growing (I recently moved back to South Dakota from the western coast aka not the same growing season!)., Congratulations on your forsaken beet crop – nature is continuously surprising us. I, too, love beets with an unflinching heart and could eat them until I turned crimson and purple – – and the greens are the object of my affection these days. Also, your dog is very handsome. Our black Labrador is about to turn one on Monday and she is stoked for life. Have a lovely 4th of July and be well! xx
Exciting! I cannot wait for beet recipes. My husband loves them and I’m utterly clueless as to what to do with them. So, this is perfect! Hope you guys enjoyed a well-deserved night out and clinker glasses to celebrate.
Remember Apollos watered but God kept making grow, God blessed your hands and your hard WORK! I’m so happy your beet harvest was amazing. Beets are so often forwned upon but they are truly a super food. You and your husband are super farmers and I am so happy you do the work you do! Relish your steak dinner.
the gluten free chef
Oh, how I wish I lived near you so I could join your CSA (will you pretty please bring me some beets when you next visit Hutchins Farm? I live about 10 mi from there…) Have a great dinner–and how about a pic of you all dressed up? 🙂
What a reason to celebrate! Love hearing your candid stories. Hope the dinner date was a great one, and I’m looking forward to some more great beet recipes!
Love this blogpost…beets are my spirit vegetable too as you know I’ve been asking about them from the first week we met you at the HR farmer’s market….I missed seeing you last week being out of town but Eric picked me up some beets and I can’t wait to try them!
Yay! It’s beet season! Great story and I hope you enjoyed your well earned steak dinner date! So much Henry love in this post 🙂