August Twenty-Sixth It’s funny how as we get older time seems to speed up. I watch our children pass the days away on the farm laying in the grass, picking flowers, building forts, climbing trees and just dreaming up projects and play for themselves. They graze the vegetable field harvesting only what looks tasty to […]
August Ninettenth This week on the farm has been busy and heavy! Farmer Adam continues to find ways to get water to the crops that need is most. We are on a very long stretch with no rain. We did receive 1/10th of an inch last Friday night which was very quickly absorbed and seemingly […]
August Twelfth Vegetables farmers do love dry weather. But when it doesn’t rain for over three weeks in the middle of summer, a vegetable farmer in Wisconsin hoping to pull off Fall crops has to get busy! We love dry weather because vegetable plants do not love to have wet leaves for very long. Wet […]
August Fifth It is so interesting how a little weather shift with some cooler temperatures has us thinking and feeling Fall. There is never a dull moment on the farm. We are busy harvesting, weeding, and yes, even planting still! The running gear wagon is loaded up with transplants scheduled to go into the ground […]
July Twenty-Nineth Many important harvests began on the farm this week! We started harvesting our garlic and onions this week. Some of these larger harvests need to happen in one big swoop in order to get the crop out of the ground and curing before they sit in the field too long and potentially begin […]
July Twenty-Second We are now entering the part of the season that is the most exciting, sweet, popular and delicious of all of the vegetables. These long, peak-summer days give us the warmth and sunlight that ripens many of our summer crops that we have all been waiting for. We are watching the sweet corn […]
July Fifteenth There is a buzz on the farm. A mid-July hum. The sounds of the farm include the crickets, the frogs, the lightening bugs, the farm truck, the mower, the workers chatter, the tractor , the irrigation pump, the ice machine, the cooler compressor and any day now the cicadas. The faces of the […]
July Eighth One of the most beautiful parts of our Small Family Farm, I believe, is the community we are cultivating. There is so much more in this experience than the food. Since forever ago, whenever there is food being cultivated, there is community interwoven within. There are families and stories and children and faces. […]
July First I find it fascinating to watch plants and their life cycles. With their sensitivity to daylength, light, temperatures, fertility and moisture, it is so interesting to watch plant behavior. Plants seem to have a knowing of when the days are getting shorter and when it’s time to get busy bulbing or flowering. They […]
June Twenty-Fourth As a child I remember feeling excited by a thunderstorm. I loved the rush and thrill that I felt from lightening and thunder and heavy rain. I loved lying safe and snug in my bed falling asleep to the sound of rain and wind. I know that some children are freightened by thunderstorms, […]
June Seventeenth, 2020 Farming in the time of Covid-19 The life of these organic vegetable farmers has changed very little in this time of COVID-19. We are home-bodies by nature and necessity this time of year. The only things that take us away from the farm are produce deliveries, trips to the hardware store or […]
June Tenth Ode to the Mess Making home-cooked meals is messy. Cooking is a labor of love born out of necessity to feed the humans we love in our lives nutritious, fresh, home-cooked meals. The meals must be put on the table in a timely fashion to avoid the hangry melt downs that happen in […]
June Third, 2020 The growing season of 2020 will be our 15th growing season running a CSA Farm. I still feel like a teenager myself to be honest. Am I really more than 15 years old? Some….how….the reality is that I have just had my 37th birthday and Adam and I have three small children […]
posted March 19th, 2020 This e-mail is to stay in communication with our CSA members during this strange and uncertain time. We have been asked by friends and CSA members if we will still be planning on providing CSA boxes for our members this summer. Right now the answer is a strong and resounding […]
Sign Up Season is Mud Season! posted March 12th, 2020 It’s time to Sign Up! Early Bird Discount Ends on April 1st! Mud Season is Sign Up Season! The farm feels a little like a waking dragon. It was curled up in its cave all winter slumbering and snoring, but it is now […]
Winter Warmth from the Farm Early Bird Sign Up for 2020 is Open! Winter on the farm is restful. Your farmers are enjoying some much needed time with family and enjoying a slower work pace with a reflective feel. While the days are short we have slower mornings with time for the extra cup of […]
October Sixteenth The final week of Summer Share deliveries comes with a bittersweet feeling. We are nearing the end of the bounty. Not so very long ago we had taken for granted green foods, which were plenty. We will soon enter the season of eating stored roots and tubers that will provide the carbs and […]
October Nineth The warm sun this week offered a reprieve from all of the rain and cold we have been having. Your farmers were beginning to worry. With the shorter days and cooler temperatures this time of year our chances for the soil actually drying out become thinner and thinner. Still so much root digging […]
October Second Soooo….What’s in the Box? Butternut Squash- 1 Large Butternut per member this week. Butternut squash is probably the most popular and most favorite winter squash variety amungst most winter squash lovers. It is very easy to peel with a potato peeler if you find a recipe that called for peeled and cubed squash […]
September Twenty-Fifth This Fall CSA boxes are incredible! We’re so excited to share these with you! They are filled with earthy and fresh roots, warming winter squashes and crispy greens like spinach and kohlrabi to keep us eating green and fresh. The Fall boxes are made colorful by items like stunning sweet peppers and red […]