309. Black Sun Farm CT | Rockstar Millennial + Listener Amelia Kellner

Author of Ugly Farm Tell us a little about yourself. I am IDK if I am a rockstar but I am trying NE CT, the poor part of CT, we’re not in Hartford There’s a lot of farms in general in this part of CT it’s not where I started farming my husband and I bought a little piece of property it’s sort of an Urban farm we have neighbors we can see 1.2 acres Oh, it’s um. My husband and I were Goth kids in school I’m really into growing black vegetables love the black carrots always buy those seeds with the black tomatoes If you forget to trim your tomato bush for a couple of weeks the busy parts are hiding inside are going to have big green splotches on them either assume the tomatoes are only going to be black turn your tomatoes toward the sun by the time that happens bugs slice them they are black from the top taste great make salsa out of not as impressive if the whole Baker Creek Black Beauty Tomatoes almost every tomato I have ever had still tastes in one shape or form sweeter or nicer tomato tastes like at tomato black like your soul black jalapenos I thought they would be super spicy picking them and eating them off the bush the black nebula carrots black all The way blanch them for a two minutes purple dye You are just dropping golden seeds Tell me about your first gardening experience? my grandmother on my mother’s side kind of a homestead under an acre being a little kid blueberries fruit trees they were getting older 1910 1915-16 something like...