August Thirty First The rain this summer has been unbelievable! We can hardly believe that every time we check the forecast there is more rain coming. It feels a little like a rain forest around here this last month or so with warm, hot days and very high humidity. We feel thankful on the farm […]
August Twenty Fourth Community Supported Agriculture or CSA began in the United States with a farm in Massachusetts that was selling shares for apples, cider, and vinegar. The basic concept was born where what is produced locally is consumed locally. The CSA members were a core group of people who were actively interested in knowing […]
August Seventeenth Harvesting all of this bounty feels like a gift. It is not entirely a gift because we have to work very hard and put in countless hours on tractors and on our hands and knees doing field work to extract this volume of food from the dark, mysterious soil. But it is a […]
August Tenth Here in the depths of summer we lie. Our schedules are busy, the days still feel long and hot and our brains feel a little foggy from all of the heat and activity. On a farm, farm families are busy keeping up with the daily harvesting, weeding and planting. We’re focused on the […]
August Third This is it. These are the glory days! These are the CSA boxes we dream of all year long. Sweet corn, melons, celery, garlic and the beginning of peppers! Sweet peppers and tomatoes are just around the corner and the harvest is heavy. The days are long (although they are waning) and humidity […]
July Twenty-Seventh The Small Family Farm is truly a family farm. We’re a mom and pop sorta place with little kids running around in the yard while the crew is working in the fields. Sometimes you hear children laughing or crying while pulling weeds or garlic. We’re a husband and wife operation with a small […]
July Twentieth Summer feels like it’s finally here! The heat it on and the forecast is calling for temperatures in the middle 90’s this week! I even heard the first cicadas of the season a few nights ago. The harvesting is heavy and the work load is even heavier! We have been busy trying to […]
July Thirteenth What a wonderful season it has been! The temperatures this summer have been mild, the rains have been regular and plentiful and the quality of the produce has been superb. In all of our short 11 years of farming vegetables, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much regularity and consistency in the […]
July Sixth Okay, so every week you open up your CSA box, and the most prominent color in your box is, well, green! Yes folks, GREEN! Green is the color we see everywhere out there when we open up our door and step outside. Nature is smothered in the color and offers the most edible […]
June Twenty-Nineth Wow, what a weekend! We had a very eventful Saturday and Sunday on the Farm! Saturday was our Early Summer Strawberry Pick, Farm tour and Potluck on the farm. We had a modest turnout for the Strawberry Farm Tour and Potluck (I think next year we will have Vanilla Ice Cream on hand […]
June Twenty-Second The Summer Solstice brings long days, warm nights and moderate temperatures. Nothing welcomes the summer months like strawberry harvest! We have been picking our berry patches with fervor and loyalty making sure to keep up with the every-other-day picking with as much persistence as we can manage as to make sure none of […]
June Fifteenth The beginning of the season returns like an old friend. The warm air feels like an embrace and the rain feels like renewal. I love the rhythm and structure the harvest and delivery season provides. There are designated harvest days, designated delivery days, designated planting and weeding and catch-up days. We even have […]
June Eighth The Small Family Farm is a dream come true. We are everything we set out to be 10 years ago. A sustainable, diversified, small family farm. The dream to become farmers is deeply rooted in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. A farm enveloped by the community, transparent and engaged within the community […]
January First, 2016 A new year arrives like the birth of a new child. So much potential lies in these days ahead, so pure and innocent. The change is like the promise of everything that is tender and new, so much hope lies within the future. So much promise. In the world ahead of us […]
October Fourteenth We made it to the final week of the Summer Share deliveries. Transition is in the air. A very breezey, no-windy Monday harvest felt like change was happening. It felt strong and powerful and humbling. If you looked off into the horizon you would see leaves blowing everywhere. You see the tops of […]
October Seventh On the Nineteenth Summer Share delivery out of 20, we are both excited and sad to see the end of the Brussels Sprouts standing tall just after harvest beneath the Maple Treeseason so near. Excited because we have worked so hard for so long and our bodies are tired and our minds are weary. […]
September Thirtieth One of the most beautiful parts, arguably THE most beautiful part, of belonging to a CSA farm is the share in the bounty. There are many rewards to cultivating a relationship with a farm such as knowing who, where and how your food is grown. You’re able to eat seasonal produce within their […]
September Twenty-Third It’s a funny kind of fall here at the Farm. The forecast calls for temperatures in the upper seventies and even low eighties for the next ten days! I’m feeling a little confused, excited and skeptical. The weather is warm and the conditions for harvesting are perfect. The warm air makes our fall […]
September Sixteenth Fall. It’s my favorite time of year. The days are getting shorter, the nights are cooler and the harvest, oh the harvest is rich! The leaves on the trees are starting to turn colors, the crickets fill the night with sound and the yellow-jackets seem to be coming from everywhere. Where were the […]
September Nineth There is an aspect to farm life that I try very hard not to talk about. The beautiful parts of this life are featured in these newsletters and facebook postings. We do everything we can to “market” the joyful and glorious parts of the farm-for they are many. The depth and richness that […]