October Sixteenth Well, what a week to end the season? If you came out to look at the gardens after the last week of hard-hitting frosts, or should I say freezes, you would agree with me that it’s time to call it a season. Last week, Sunday morning, I walked around the garden to see […]
October Nineth I’m curious to know how this went for you. What was it like to be a CSA member of our farm this year. Did you learn to look forward to the boxes each week or come to dread ‘more vegetables’? I know that CSA is not for everyone out there, but I certainly […]
October Second I wonder where the month of September went in the same way that I wonder where year s21-25 of my life went. This is how easily time slips away from me. I woke up one morning and I don’t know when it got cold outside or when the season changed, or when I […]
September Twenty-Fifth Fall colors are starting to set in now. I sense that the garden is getting dreary. I suppose that we all have our limits of production, fertility and strength. She is running low on steam and getting sleepy now. I even find it less inviting to get up and get into the garden […]
September Eighteenth Greetings all from Momma Jane this week! Jillian let me take the helm as readies for the Madison Farmers Market. Busy, busy as usual with oh so much to do yet this season, with so little time. We have to admit we’re kinda glad we’re winding down, folks. Yup, we’re now entering the […]
September Eleventh A pleasant, warm, dry and quick week on the farm. In fact the time seems to be growing more pleasant, strangely a bit warmer, increasingly dryer and oh so quick, I can hardly tell that a week has passed. Where is the time going? I think I’ve been sinking my time into digging, […]
September Fourth Sooo….WHAT’S in the BOX???
August Twenty-Eigth This week I’m pretty sure I felt a turn of the seasons. I happen to be rejoicing in this awareness as the heat does not suit me well. I find myself enjoying such tasks, once again, as driving the truck out to the field to begin a harvesting project and keeping at it […]
August Twenty-First I would like to dedicate this newsletter to my mother’s mother, my grandmother, Eileen Even-Phohl who passed away last Sunday evening at the ripe age of 97 years, the heirloom seed in our family, that will live on thru us and our grandchildren forever. Thank you, grandma, for choosing flavor and quality over […]
August Fourteenth With some much needed heat, the peppers and eggplant are really starting to kick it into gear. We did leave quite a few peppers out there until next week to give them a chance to turn red as we have so many other things to give this week. We’re hoping that the tomatoes […]
August Seventh You know, it’s very easy when you’re a busy farmer like I am that works from home and only leaves the farm one day out of the week to deliver and market your produce, to slip into a little world that is all of your own. My life and my mind are so […]
July Thirty-Frist The rain that we’ve been getting in the last week seems to have brought a sigh of relief to the farm. The plants seem to be breathing again and we seem to be breathing again after somewhat holding our breath between storms. Before the rain that we got last weekend, we had only […]
July Twenty-Fourth Running a family farm certainly is an interesting dynamic. Our family is bound together by this farm. The farm is the reason we are all here and without this farm, we would surely be living in cities somewhere, distant from one another, working for someone else and for some other cause. At […]
July Seventeenth I can hardly believe that a whole week has passed. It feels like I blinked and then it was over. I wanted to speak a bit about the quality of the produce that you receive. I know that when you pick up a cauliflower in your box and it looks nothing […]
July Tenth Another smooth week on the farm that seemed to just slip on by. The days are still long but somehow they seem shorter than they should be. Morning are sung away by the song birds all around and the afternoons just mosey on off without even saying good by. I even wear a […]
July Third The cool weather this week was a pleasant break from the heat that allowed us to play catch up in the garden without melting in the hot sun. The lettuce favors cooler weather, so we lucked out getting to hold onto the lettuce an extra week or so. The lettuce will bolt, or […]
June Twenty-Sixth I have not missed the heat in the way that I miss strawberries out of season or the way that I miss fresh greens in the winter, or the way that miss my cousin in Baghdad. I have only missed the heat because of what I know what it brings with it. […]
June Neneteenth I’ve never seen our third CSA deliveries looking so good! We actually had to do a little tossing up on what to put in the boxes this week. We took a look at what all it was that we had to give, and had to decided to not to give a few things […]
June Twelfth Another dazzling week of farm fresh food! With almost three inches of rain on the farm in the last week we’ve been catching up on our inside chores. Just before we had to start harvesting on Thursday we were able to catch up on the weeding in the onion patch. With the […]
Left to right, top to bottom: Adam, Momma Jane, Drew, Jillian and Julie. Plus our three dogs. June Fifth Oh, what a feeling it is, like being re-united with old friends. How I have missed you all, how I have missed the life of the garden and how I have missed the connection we […]