Wow – last distribution of the fall share. Can you believe it? Thanks to everyone on Thursday who was flexible about picking up in the greenhouse. You helped us make it work and we really appreciate it! What cold weather! Believe it or not, we are still managing to pick from the fields. Your spinach, lettuce,Continue reading “Fall CSA – 5th (and final) Distribution”
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Fall CSA: 4th Distribution
Our awesome photographer took the time to take two shots of the share last week, one with 1/3 of the sweet potatoes, onions and potatoes, and one with ALL of them. If you remember, we had you collect the rest of the potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions for the Fall CSA share, because they canContinue reading “Fall CSA: 4th Distribution”
Fall CSA: 3rd Pick Up
We still have a lot of vegetables! Our 10×10 cooler is almost full of carrots (mostly carrots), beets, radish, kohlrabi, turnips, rutabaga, celeriac and cabbage. Our greenhouse has several tons of butternut squash and sweet potatoes, plus a few other varieties, and is growing lettuce and spinach. The field still has more than an acreContinue reading “Fall CSA: 3rd Pick Up”
Fall CSA: 2nd Pick Up
You know you’ve had enough rain when you pull a carrot and the hole left behind immediately fills with water. . . so we are going to talk about eating food, rather than growing food today. (Although we did have fun preparing and planting our last transplants in the big greenhouse last week!) Despite theContinue reading “Fall CSA: 2nd Pick Up”
Summer CSA – Week 16 (Last Week!)
It’s fall. I wonder if these soon-to-be butterflies will actually make it to Mexico? This week marks the last Summer Share. Thanks so much for being with us these 16 weeks of vegetable eating. We don’t have exact measurements, and because of choices everyone’s experience will be a little bit different, but if you gotContinue reading “Summer CSA – Week 16 (Last Week!)”
Summer CSA – Week 15
This is going to be a short email. We are working hard to get our storage crops out of the ground so we can get a healthy cover crop planted. We managed to get rye cover crop down on almost all of the fields that are on the hill. The rye will live through theContinue reading “Summer CSA – Week 15”
Summer CSA – Week 14
Hooray for rain. We needed it. Kevin spent all of labor day in the heat getting our irrigation set up to use the hydrant at the top of the hill and then Tuesday when they came to turn it on it turns out the hydrant it broken!!!!! (not broken enough so they couldn’t put outContinue reading “Summer CSA – Week 14”
Summer CSA – Week 13 (Labor Day Post)
Labor Day is upon us – I think it’s time for that labor blog I promised earlier in the season. It’s a lot easier to write about what is happening on the farm, or about how to grow and cook vegetables, but I started farming because I want to make significant societal chance, and after tenContinue reading “Summer CSA – Week 13 (Labor Day Post)”
Summer CSA – Week 12
We’ve been busy, as you can imagine, harvesting, mostly tomatoes, but plenty of other veggies. Last week we managed to sneak in a final hand-weed on the fall carrots and they are looking great. We also seeded 32 flats of spinach, 10 flats of lettuce, 4 flats of kale and few other trials. Those wereContinue reading “Summer CSA – Week 12”
Summer CSA: Week 11
I want to take a minute to tell you how great our crew is this year. It has been the grossest weather I have experienced as a farmer. It has not been fun to be outside most days. So muggy, so hot . . . yuck. But our crew kept their spirits high throughout, evenContinue reading “Summer CSA: Week 11”
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