August Twenty-Third Have you ever wondered how we do it all? All of these vegetables! So much variety! So many different vegetables, all from one farm! All in one season! And it’s not over; just slightly more than half-way over in fact. We still have a lot more to offer you before the end is […]
August Sixteenth I must be honest, the second half of the CSA delivery season is my favorite. I love the Spring and early Summer months because of the cooler weather, succulent greens and the new-ness and uniqueness of the vegetable offerings, but my true loves are the in-season tomatoes, sweet corn and melons. The green […]
August Nineth Pre-maturely, we named this farm the ‘Small Family Farm’ way back in the Spring of 2007. We knew we wanted to be a family farm, we knew we would always remain small and we wanted to epitomize everything it meant to be a ‘Small Family Farm’. We wanted the kids and the fields […]
August Second Here is a guest Worker-Share Perspective Article from a first-year Worker Share member, Megan from Viola, WI! My name is Megan, I am a worker share at Small Family Farm CSA. I work Thursday mornings at the farm and I love that every Thursday morning is different! My family and I are new […]
July Twenty-Sixth Don’t worry about us, folks! The farm is surviving the storms! In case you haven’t heard or your micro-climate was not getting the weather the farm was getting, we received about 6 inches of rain between Wednesday and Friday. It was the beginning of a very mucky garlic harvest on Thursday while continuing […]
July Nineteenth Worker Share Perspective Article by Anna Jahns (She’s the one in the picture on the right) What is your involvement in the Small Family Farm? Employee, Worker Share, other? Worker Share (Friday mornings!) How did you first find out about/Start working at Small Family Farm? A poster at the Viroqua Food Co-op! How […]
July Twelveth The days are long. Long and hot and humid. The farmer’s bodies are tired and weary. Not weak or worn just yet but feeling well-used and even sore muscles some days. And the beginning of the heavy harvesting is only beginning. Cucumbers, summer squash, zucchini, broccoli and cauliflower all need picking every other […]
July Fifth If you were not part of a CSA farm this season, and unless you’re a hard-core foodie (and I do hope you’re on your way to becoming one), you probably would not have salad turnips, kohlrabi, garlic scapes, dill and fennel in your refrigerator this week. These are out-of-the-norm items that, unless your […]
June Twenty-Eighth It always feels strange to have the longest days of the year at the beginning of the season. It doesn’t feel like the days should start getting shorter again already! But it does feel like a blessing in some ways. The darkness is sometimes the only thing that brings a farmer indoors. When […]
June Twenty First Strawberries are here! Strawberries are something we were reluctant to take on in the early years of our farm. We just didn’t know the process – the spacing at which to plant them, what varieties, how far apart are the rows? How many plants to put in? But four years ago we […]
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 […]