July Twenty-Fifth When I was a girl, my mother used to tell me I was her favorite child after I had just done something that pleased her. She would do this with a wink, and even in front of my other siblings at times. I remember feeling I had just eaten the mushroom in Mario […]
July Eighteenth It finally feels like summer on the farm. Summer never really feels like summer to me until it’s so hot that our clothes are sticking to our skins and the cicadas are singing in the middle of the day. It feels like summer when you body aches from the heavy haul of cucumbers […]
July Eleventh Vegetable farming is an incredibly labor-intensive form of farming. So intensive that even a small ‘10-acres of vegetables’ farm like ours requires 5-12 people working in and on it full time. Our crews are even tightly managed so that they are moving and at peak productivity all the time. The crews work hard […]
July Fifth With the frequent rains and very warm temperatures, many of our summer crops are loving the heat and moisture and are growing quite well. We are predicting an earlier year for some heat-loving summer crops like sweet corn, melons, tomatoes and cucumbers. Already we have strung three lines of trellising on our tomatoes […]
June Twentieth The farm feels like a fully risen loaf of bread, like a full moon, like a swollen river. It feels full and alive and vibrant. It feels like a hive of bees busily flying in and out to collect nectar and pollen and water, returning home again and again with a humble harvest […]
June Twentieth We are creatures of habit seeking comfort and familiarity. We wade in the predictable and the known. Here in the ‘bread basket’ the primal fear of wondering if and when we will get to eat again is an un warranted stress in our climate of plenty and surplus. We live in the era […]
June Thirteenth The farm is off to a wonderful beginning of a new season. ‘From the road’ everything looks amazing. If you drive by the fields the rows of onions, potatoes, sweet corn, cucurbits and brassicas all look so young and clean and full of potential. With a late start to this growing season, we […]
June Sixth Each season I feel the need to re-introduce ourselves, even though many of you are returning CSA members (about 60% of you!) and many of you already have a season or a few under your belt and know a bit of our story, but I find that the way I tell it changes […]
March Twenty-Nineth The farm comes alive again slowly, quietly, almost secretly. The hive hums when the sun shines. The greenhouse doors fling open to release the excess heat. The chickens lay eggs again and the children think that since it is officially Spring, they can dare to walk outside without coats or hats. The seeds […]
How do you imagine your farmers in the wintertime? Do you imagine us with our heads stuck inside seed catalogs mulling over varieties? Do you imagine us walking our frozen fields with a cup of coffee? Do you imagine us curled up in bed, sleeping in and feeling a little guilty about it? Do you […]
November Twenty-First Soooo…..What’s in the Box??? 1 Butternut Squash- All Squash varieties will keep best at room temperature. They prefer a warmer or dry area. If they start to develop spots of any kind, you’ll know it’s time to eat them up. They don’t like to be kept in refrigerators and they look very festive […]
November 15th Winter on the farm is only just a few days away. It’s hard to believe! We’ve been working as busy as bees taking advantage of every hour of daylight these days trying to get the last of our storage crops out of the field. We have just 1 bed of carrots, 1 bed […]
October Eighteenth The Final Week of Summer Share CSA deliveries brings a kind of bittersweet feeling. We are welcoming the slower pace of the waning day length, yet recognizing the end of the work we love and the food that has been so bountiful and plentiful all summer long. Mostly though, I feel a strong […]
October Eleventh The nineteenth summer share delivery may mark the near-end of the produce deliveries for some folks, but it is by no means the end of the work that is done on the farm this season. There is still a good month’s worth of work for us out there harvesting the root vegetables, tearing […]
October Fourth Have you heard of Biodynamic farming? I have seen the term “biodynamic” defined many different ways, but put simply it is the holistic, ecological and ethical approach to farming, gardening, food and nutrition. It takes into consideration the more subtle influences of the wider cosmos on soil, plant and animal health. It is […]
September Twenty-Seventh I love the way Fall on a farm feels so cozy. Well, I imagine that it will begin to feel a little more cozy now that the very strange 90 degree weather we were having is over. More seasonal weather in the 70’s and 60’s is predicted for later this week and we […]
September Twentieth We are now in the 16th delivery week out of a 20-Week Summer Share delivery cycle. My personal favorite time of year. And what a gorgeous Fall it is turning out to be! The Fall Colors are beginning here. A few sandhill cranes flew overhead while harvesting swiss chard this morning. The air […]
September Thirteenth The family meal continues to increase in value for me as our small family grows. In the hustle and quickening pace of our modern-day lives, we still manage to find a pause for all three meals sitting together as a family at my grandmother’s old scratched-up kitchen table. My mom says that grandma […]
September Sixth A Worker Share Perspective Article by Helen Jones. My name is Helen and I am an official Tuesday morning, worker share/ unofficial, part-time worker. Basically, other than Tuesdays, I come in whenever someone can’t make it, or when just extra help is needed. Which has been really fun! I’ve been able to see […]
August Thirtieth Each season I feel the need to pay a tribute to the Worker Share. Our farm is powered by Adam and I, a team of four skilled employees, and a crew of about 30 Worker and Sitter Shares who show up each week in tandem for their designated Worker Share shift. The Worker […]