3/16/26 Who’s Your Farmer: Sean
Our Farm Manager Sean is a farmer at heart and is the powerhouse behind the daily work at the farm. Check out this fun interview Amaia made of him.
This is Sean’s 4th season at Singing Frogs Farm. He had another three years working at two different small scale organic farms in Connecticut & Pennsylvania for three years before joining us. Being on the farm he quickly took on many higher level responsibilities from restaurant liaison, making a mean compost pile, harvest manager and finally full farm manager.
Sean makes the first call on what will go into your CSA box, He manages the harvest, he manages tasks for every day and checks in on progress of all field projects. One of his favorite aspects is the mind puzzle that is what crops go where on the farm. You should see the map with all 300 beds of the farm constantly coming in and out of everything from lettuces to interplanted brassicas, hoop house tomatoes, cucumbers and summer squash, cover crop, corn, and everything in and between.
Speaking of puzzles, Sean does love a good board game outside of the fields as well.
Many thanks to Amaia for putting together this fun video highlighting this amazing farmer… more to come of more of our amazing crew!!
Sean also enjoys educating and has been working alongside Elizabeth in many of our education ventures this year and led his own tours and groups. In fact when Elizabeth was sick this past week he came and taught part of our workshop this past Saturday. Even beyond teaching how to plant fennel, he loves sharing about the outdoors and nature. Prior to farming he was an outdoor educator for several year for teens and adults.
Outside of work, Sean stays active, whether that means playing pick up basketball with the farm crew, swimming in the ocean or playing disc golf. And what’s most important to know about Sean today is that the Texas Longhorns Women’s Basketball is #1 heading into NCAA tournament. You will see his orange long horn hat, albeit quite farm worn, atop his head most days.
Nameless Boxes
Last CSA was a big success with our shake up on Thank You.
Please remember to check off your name on the clipboard. I tried to text many of you who missed this step last week.
Order of operations:
📋 Check yourself off on clip board.
📦 Pick up veggies from a Classic/Family CSA box.
💚 Leave the box and tidy it away for the people after you as well as your amazing host who offers their space for us to use in the service of strengthening our local food system.
♻️ If you want to trade, please do your best to leave approximately the value that you took.
🥬 Pick up any food Add-Ons (clip board will have told you if and what). But these are labeled.
💐 Pick up any Flowers you’ve ordered. Clip board will have told you if and what
Eggs are back!
We’re excited to have eggs again this year from Farmer Chris at Deep Roots Farm in Penngrove. Some of you were able to start your shares this week, you can join at any point. They are from 9 varieties of chickens that are pasture raised (moved weekly with chicken tractors through fields that have cover crop or recently finished veggie crops). They grow supplemental soldier fly larva for them and they do receive some organic grain but are not certified organic.
This Week’s Box
Panisse Lettuce
Chard (Classic) OR Baby Kale (Family)
Kohlrabi (Classic) OR Red Onion (Family)
Bell Bean Shoots
Carrots
Potatoes (Suncatcher Farm)
Meyer Lemons (Pretty Mike)
Family: Little Gems x3
Produce Notes & Recipes
We’re excited to have eggs again this year from Farmer Chris at Deep Roots Farm in Penngrove. Some of you were able to start your shares this week, you can join at any point. They are from 9 varieties of chickens that are pasture raised (moved weekly with chicken tractors through fields that have cover crop or recently finished veggie crops). They grow supplemental soldier fly larva for them and they do receive some organic grain but are not certified organic.
Produce Notes & Recipes
We’re thrilled to be in Lettuce Season!! And that comes early to Singing Frogs Farm most years, and much more so this year. Everyone had a small head of Panisse in today’s box. We love this Oak Leaf Lettuce for it’s light texture and flavor so it prefers a lighter dressing to allow the flavor of the lettuce to shine. In our house we do a miso dressing or a light lemon and olive oil. Given today’s Meyer Lemons maybe a vinaigrette. I might also like to grate the Kohlrabi on top, keeping the mild flavor.
Simple Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette
½ c Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Tbs / about 1 Lemon freshly squeezed juice
1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
½ tsp Dijon Mustard
Pinch ground white pepper
Add all ingredients to jar and shake.
We have another round of Potatoes from Suncatcher Farm for today’s CSA with West County Boxes getting red Sangre Potatoes and Santa Rosa getting yellow Jelly Potatoes.
Crispy Meyer Lemon Oven-Roasted Potatoes (adapted from flavourandsavour.com)
2 lbs potatoes
2 Tbs olive oil, extra virgin
2 Tbs Meyer lemon juice, freshly squeezed
coarse sea salt and pepper to taste
1 Meyer lemon sliced
Heat oven to 400°F.
Oil a baking sheet and heat in oven for 4-5 minutes.
Scrub the potatoes, chop into bite-sized pieces and pat dry. Place in a large bowl.
Whisk the oil and lemon juice together, then drizzle over the potatoes and toss until very well-coated.
Spread out potatoes on baking sheet so they are not touching each other.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, turning once or twice until crispy on the outside and tender when pricked with a fork.
Meanwhile, lay lemon slices on a grill and cook until slightly caramelized and golden brown, about 5 minutes, flipping once. Use as a garnish for the potatoes.
Serve immediately.
Classic Boxes have Rainbow Chard today (Families had it last CSA). As much of the Kale on the farm has just bolted (they are a brassicas and with lengthening days they want to produce flowers), we’re leaning on some pretty great crops of Rainbow Chard right now (Chard is Amaranth family) as our primary bunching green.
I found a recipe for a Chard Pesto/Salsa that we’re really enjoying it was part of a larger recipe Sweet Potato & Black Bean Tacos with Chard Pestorecipe that I’ll just have the link for here.
Swiss Chard Pesto
1 bunch Swiss chard, stems removed and coarsely chopped
1/4 cup cilantro, coarsely chopped
1 jalapeno, coarsely chopped (I used pickled from last summer)
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup pepitas, toasted
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 lime, juice
salt and pepper to taste
Bell Bean Shoots are the tender young greens of fava beans, with a fresh, slightly sweet flavor and a hint of pea-like richness. Delicious raw in salads, lightly sautéed, or added at the end of cooking, they bring bright spring flavor and nutrient-dense greens to your plate.
People at the market loved putting them in smoothies. We love adding them to dishes at the end to wilt. It would be great to make a veggie sandwich with grated carrot and kohlrabi and bell bean shoots. Maggie likes topping them on her fried egg in the morning or making and egg sandwich.
We are excited to have a final round of Carrots for you. This was our best round of winter carrots!! We wish we had 2 more of these for you but alas this is what the season gave us. After harvesting this bed we’ll be planting our second bed of indoor tomatoes in this bed!!
Extra Shares
Flower Share: Focus on Queen of Night Tulips 🌷
Lettuce Share: Lettuce Leaf Mix 🥬
Bunched Greens Share: Rainbow Kale