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 […]
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 […]