September Eighteenth Thank you to everyone who came out to the farm this last Sunday for our annual Fall Farm Tour and Potluck. The Farm events require a good deal of effort and time on behalf of your farmers. An additional “Thank You” to Turtle Stack Brewery for coming out and spending the afternoon with […]
September Eleventh As I write this newsletter on Monday night to the sound of rain falling on the roof, I feel soothed. We had a very long stretch of warm and dry weather this summer that has had the fall plantings of spinach, carrots, beets, fennel, kohlrabi and more very thirsty. This time the rain […]
September Fourth There is a component to being a to being a lover of food that I feel is relevant to cover. Without this important aspect, one cannot truly enjoy the experience of being a CSA member, a locavore or an eater, I feel. Food is consumable and perishable and an expense in our lives. […]
August Twenty-Eighth The day length is becoming noticeably shorter now. Misty mornings with the sounds of crickets singing in the haze set a reflective and contemplative tone. A general feeling of awareness around us as we pick tomatoes and realize that summer is finite, school is starting and the seasons are shifting. The walnuts are […]
August Twenty-First The farm is dry. The dryness is something we openly asked for earlier in the season. This lovely, sunny, dry weather has been wonderful for drying down our garlic and onions in the greenhouse and dry storage room. We are now beginning to harvest and dry down the first of our winter squash […]
August Fourteenth, 2019 Growing sweet corn on the scale that our farm grows sweet corn is no simple task. We’re not big time sweet corn growers, but we are certainly growing it on a scale that is larger than most. That sweet smelling corn travlels through the night breeze and draws in the racoons like […]
August Seventh, 2019 Week 10 marks the half-way point of our Summer Share deliveries. It’s hard to believe that it is half way over already! But the fun is just beginning, if you ask me! I feel a little guilty confessing that farmer Adam brought the first ripe watermelon down from the fields this weekend […]
July Thirty-First, 2019 Do you ever wonder how we do it? How does a young family with three little kids and a handful of employees run a farm like this? We’re sort of like wizards, witches and alchemists out here turning soil and seeds into juicy and crunchy fruits and roots. The truth is, it […]
July Twenty Fourth, 2019 Many of our fondest memories in life are those centered around food. We gather for family picnics in the park in the summer. We think of potato salad, garden salsa, veggie platters, the smell of the grill and deserts featuring seasonal berries and fruits. Holidays, birthdays, and even the regular old […]
July Seventeenth, 2019 Much to the chagrin to visiting guests (and my own parents), we do not have air conditioning in our house. The door to the farm house opens and closes several times each hour. The kids are always running in and then back out again. Neighbors, workers, and visitors of all kinds are […]
July Tenth, 2019 All too often in life we long for all that which we do not have in front of us. We wish for our children to be older, for winter when it’s too hot, for summer when it’s too cold. We wish for tomatoes in the Spring and Strawberries in the Fall. We […]
July Third, 2019 The farm is a beehive. It is a hustle and bustle of people, warmth, harvest and activity. The season is young, the energy is high and everyone is excited to be working together! It has been a wet beehive, but a humming, strumming buzzing hive between storms none-the less. If the sun […]
June Twenty Sixth, 2019 The summer solstice seemed to get the message across to the fireflys that it was now okay to come out in full force. These gorgeous summer evenings twinkle with the magic that they embody due to their presence. The monarchs are finally ubiquitous while temperatures shyly creep into the 80’s. This […]
June Nineteenth I often wish I could get Farmer Adam to write a Newsletter for us. His perspective, especially as the lead farmer these days, would be fascinating to hear. He’s a man of few words that works mostly quietly and keeps to himself most of the time. Yet, he has a steadiness and […]
June Tenth, 2019 (Brassic Fields Forever) I like to use an early newsletter to introduce ourselves. It’s a bit of repeat for the returning CSA members, but fun for our new members who really don’t know the faces behind the food. I also find that I retell the story differently each year as the story […]
June Fifth, 2019 A new season feels like a kind of rebirth. Or like a granted wish. A little like a second chance, a pardon or forgiveness. We start a new season with all of the experience and memories of the cumulative seasons past. We remember the good the bad and the ugly. With last […]
March Twenty-Sixth, 2019 I’m always looking for fun ways to help our CSA members get creative and feel inspired in the kitchen. The last thing we want is for you to feel is overwhelmed by your huge box of vegetables and for you to want them to stop coming! We want you to want to […]
My top three favorite reasons to support a CSA farm are the lovely trio of FRESH, LOCAL and ORGANIC that dance together hand-in-hand so beautifully going round and round in a girl-like frolly. Hello Fresh and Blue Apron might be offering trendy recipes, customizable dinner boxes and at-your-door delivery, but they will never, ever be […]
October Seventeenth With the final summer share delivery comes a bittersweet feeling. I feel thankful for the slower days ahead and the relief of the rigid harvest-pack-deliver-repeat routine. While I take comfort, contentment and security in our predictable summer schedule, the opportunity for rest and restoration is welcome. But with the end of a harvest […]
October Tenth Rain makes mud. An impressive streak of rain has been falling on the farm these last few weeks. While we haven’t been getting too much rainfall at one time, we have been getting subsequient storms that make it so that after one storm passes, another is shortly behind. Very few days in the […]