Chicken & Veggies

3 chicken breasts
1 tbsp chili powder
2 tbsp paprika
2 tsp rosemary
6 small carrots, sliced
1 med-lg onion, halved and sliced
1/4-1/2 lb mushrooms, sliced or halved as appropriate
4 tbsp Oil
2 c cooked rice
Heat about 2 Tbsp of oil in a pan.  When the oil is hot, place chicken breasts in pan and sautee until outside is browned.  Place top on pot, lower temperature and allow to simmer for 15-20min.
While chicken is simmering, sautee onions, mushrooms and sliced carrots in a second pan with oil. stir and cover with a lid.
When all veggies are cooking, add spices to chicken, turn to coat, cover and continue to simmer.
When veggies are just getting soft, add more oil if necessary and then add the rice.  Heat through.
Cut chicken into pieces, mix chicken and juices, veggies and rice.  Serve hot.

An Intern's Introduction

Hello, everyone! My name is Austin and, as Jason and Margaret told you last week, I will be the intern at Omache Farm during the 2012 growing season. I'm excited to be a part of the Omache crew, and hope that my hard work will be noticeable in the CSA boxes and on the market table. I look forward to meeting you and your family at the market!

During this first week of being an intern, I have already learned a few very important lessons on running a farm. For example, duct tape is the most important tool on the farm, even if it has a leopard print pattern. Also, always make bunches of vegetables bigger than they need to be, because happy customers is the surest way to a stable revenue stream. In addition, the market itself is like a temporary town; if you treat your neighbors with respect, you'll have willing help when you need it. Finally, the most important lesson I have learned is that sweat and elbow grease are renewable resources; why burn gasoline when you can burn calories?

As I continue my practical education on the farm, I'll be sure to share the best tidbits here in the newsletter. I hope I can enlighten all of you as to how Omache farm is helping to make the foodshed of the Palouse more sustainable, equitable, and fun! Thank you for coming along for the ride.

Your friend in the field,

Austin

Welcome Austin!

We would like to take a moment to Welcome Austin to Omache Farm.  Austin is our Intern for the remainder of the farming season and will become a familiar face at the markets and other events we attend during the season.  Not only will Austin have the pleasure of learning about weeding, transplanting, harvesting, fencing, feeding and the other basic menial work of vegetable farming, but also, he will have the chance to learn about record-keeping and keeping books, going to market, and all the little whys and hows of our farm from dreaming up an enterprise to planning it to implementing it to taking it to market.

Austin is majoring in the Organic Agriculture degree at WSU.  He hails from the Seattle Area and currently, the plan is to go back and start a small urban farm.  Austin has started with us at a great time for him because our starting a CSA is very fresh in our mind and he is really getting to see a CSA from the very beginning.

We are very excited to have Austin joining us and look forward to giving him the experiences necessary to help him feel confident in starting out on his own in the future.

If you have a chance, please stop and say hello, chat, and get to know Austin at the Markets this season!  As much as he can learn from us, our customers have a lot to offer to the Internship experience.

We look forward to a great season Austin!