June Fourteenth One of the beautiful things about belonging to a CSA farm is the opportunity to know your farmer. A different experience than what we get at a store. We know our store-owners (sometimes). We know our neighborhoods that we shop in. We might even know the friendly cashiers or the produce buyers if […]
June Seventh A new season dawns, fresh and new like a sunrise. Bright. Promising. Energizing. I am just as excited for this season as I was for our very first CSA delivery season in 2006. Nope, that’s not true. I have more excitement, more confidence, more help and less stress! Our 12th season is off […]
The 2017 growing season will be the Small Family Farm’s 12th growing season! Yet somehow 12 years has slipped by like a long weekend and we approach the dawning of a new one with the same excitement, passion, commitment and hope as any other year. Our love for what we do does not fade or […]
October Nineteenth Storybook Farm Once upon a time, in a more dreamy, romantic and adolescent part of my life, I fantasized of having a Small Family Farm of my own. The kind with a big garden and chickens running around and animals grazing in the pasture on the hillside. Perhaps the seeds were planted in […]
October Twelfth October Twelfth marks the 19th Summer Share delivery out of a 20-Week Summer Share delivery season. We most certainly have not thrown in our towels yet. There are still loads of work left to be done on this farm even after the Summer Share deliveries have ended. While we do see the light […]
October Fifth Saving Seed Do you ever wonder where a farm like ours gets seeds? Where do they come from, what companies sell them? Are they organic? How do we choose which crops and varieties of each crop to grow? Selecting seeds is a process and it takes up a couple weeks our time in […]
September Twenty-Eighth This week the farm shifted. The winds started to roll in. The air became cool. The leaves started to fall, the hillside off in the distance started to take on shades of orange and tan and red and yellow. The Fall Colors has begun. We are even feeling bit of a rush now […]
September Twenty-First Rain, Rain, Go Away. Come Again Another Day! This late summer has been a challenge. While I do try very hard to refrain from complaining about the weather, the work load, the stress or the condition of the crops, farmer Adam assures me that when I portray the message to you via these […]
September Fourteenth Coming to the Table The shared family meal may be more than just a means to an end. Eating dinner with your kids or parents or neighbors creates a unifying effect on the people sitting at the table. If you want to get to know someone, re-connect with someone or simply nurture the […]
September Seventh Each season unravels itself like a ball of uncarded wool. As it lays there raw, and unraveled we are able to view the color differences, the different textures, and the rare soft spots. The hard spots. The stains. And the ubiquitous spots of ideal and pleasing colors and textures. So different are the […]
August Thirty First The rain this summer has been unbelievable! We can hardly believe that every time we check the forecast there is more rain coming. It feels a little like a rain forest around here this last month or so with warm, hot days and very high humidity. We feel thankful on the farm […]
August Twenty Fourth Community Supported Agriculture or CSA began in the United States with a farm in Massachusetts that was selling shares for apples, cider, and vinegar. The basic concept was born where what is produced locally is consumed locally. The CSA members were a core group of people who were actively interested in knowing […]
August Seventeenth Harvesting all of this bounty feels like a gift. It is not entirely a gift because we have to work very hard and put in countless hours on tractors and on our hands and knees doing field work to extract this volume of food from the dark, mysterious soil. But it is a […]
August Tenth Here in the depths of summer we lie. Our schedules are busy, the days still feel long and hot and our brains feel a little foggy from all of the heat and activity. On a farm, farm families are busy keeping up with the daily harvesting, weeding and planting. We’re focused on the […]
August Third This is it. These are the glory days! These are the CSA boxes we dream of all year long. Sweet corn, melons, celery, garlic and the beginning of peppers! Sweet peppers and tomatoes are just around the corner and the harvest is heavy. The days are long (although they are waning) and humidity […]
July Twenty-Seventh The Small Family Farm is truly a family farm. We’re a mom and pop sorta place with little kids running around in the yard while the crew is working in the fields. Sometimes you hear children laughing or crying while pulling weeds or garlic. We’re a husband and wife operation with a small […]
July Twentieth Summer feels like it’s finally here! The heat it on and the forecast is calling for temperatures in the middle 90’s this week! I even heard the first cicadas of the season a few nights ago. The harvesting is heavy and the work load is even heavier! We have been busy trying to […]
July Thirteenth What a wonderful season it has been! The temperatures this summer have been mild, the rains have been regular and plentiful and the quality of the produce has been superb. In all of our short 11 years of farming vegetables, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much regularity and consistency in the […]
July Sixth Okay, so every week you open up your CSA box, and the most prominent color in your box is, well, green! Yes folks, GREEN! Green is the color we see everywhere out there when we open up our door and step outside. Nature is smothered in the color and offers the most edible […]
June Twenty-Nineth Wow, what a weekend! We had a very eventful Saturday and Sunday on the Farm! Saturday was our Early Summer Strawberry Pick, Farm tour and Potluck on the farm. We had a modest turnout for the Strawberry Farm Tour and Potluck (I think next year we will have Vanilla Ice Cream on hand […]