July Twenty-Second We are now entering the part of the season that is the most exciting, sweet, popular and delicious of all of the vegetables. These long, peak-summer days give us the warmth and sunlight that ripens many of our summer crops that we have all been waiting for. We are watching the sweet corn […]
July Fifteenth There is a buzz on the farm. A mid-July hum. The sounds of the farm include the crickets, the frogs, the lightening bugs, the farm truck, the mower, the workers chatter, the tractor , the irrigation pump, the ice machine, the cooler compressor and any day now the cicadas. The faces of the […]
July Eighth One of the most beautiful parts of our Small Family Farm, I believe, is the community we are cultivating. There is so much more in this experience than the food. Since forever ago, whenever there is food being cultivated, there is community interwoven within. There are families and stories and children and faces. […]
July First I find it fascinating to watch plants and their life cycles. With their sensitivity to daylength, light, temperatures, fertility and moisture, it is so interesting to watch plant behavior. Plants seem to have a knowing of when the days are getting shorter and when it’s time to get busy bulbing or flowering. They […]
June Twenty-Fourth As a child I remember feeling excited by a thunderstorm. I loved the rush and thrill that I felt from lightening and thunder and heavy rain. I loved lying safe and snug in my bed falling asleep to the sound of rain and wind. I know that some children are freightened by thunderstorms, […]
June Seventeenth, 2020 Farming in the time of Covid-19 The life of these organic vegetable farmers has changed very little in this time of COVID-19. We are home-bodies by nature and necessity this time of year. The only things that take us away from the farm are produce deliveries, trips to the hardware store or […]
June Tenth Ode to the Mess Making home-cooked meals is messy. Cooking is a labor of love born out of necessity to feed the humans we love in our lives nutritious, fresh, home-cooked meals. The meals must be put on the table in a timely fashion to avoid the hangry melt downs that happen in […]
June Third, 2020 The growing season of 2020 will be our 15th growing season running a CSA Farm. I still feel like a teenager myself to be honest. Am I really more than 15 years old? Some….how….the reality is that I have just had my 37th birthday and Adam and I have three small children […]
posted March 19th, 2020 This e-mail is to stay in communication with our CSA members during this strange and uncertain time. We have been asked by friends and CSA members if we will still be planning on providing CSA boxes for our members this summer. Right now the answer is a strong and resounding […]
Sign Up Season is Mud Season! posted March 12th, 2020 It’s time to Sign Up! Early Bird Discount Ends on April 1st! Mud Season is Sign Up Season! The farm feels a little like a waking dragon. It was curled up in its cave all winter slumbering and snoring, but it is now […]
Winter Warmth from the Farm Early Bird Sign Up for 2020 is Open! Winter on the farm is restful. Your farmers are enjoying some much needed time with family and enjoying a slower work pace with a reflective feel. While the days are short we have slower mornings with time for the extra cup of […]
October Sixteenth The final week of Summer Share deliveries comes with a bittersweet feeling. We are nearing the end of the bounty. Not so very long ago we had taken for granted green foods, which were plenty. We will soon enter the season of eating stored roots and tubers that will provide the carbs and […]
October Nineth The warm sun this week offered a reprieve from all of the rain and cold we have been having. Your farmers were beginning to worry. With the shorter days and cooler temperatures this time of year our chances for the soil actually drying out become thinner and thinner. Still so much root digging […]
October Second Soooo….What’s in the Box? Butternut Squash- 1 Large Butternut per member this week. Butternut squash is probably the most popular and most favorite winter squash variety amungst most winter squash lovers. It is very easy to peel with a potato peeler if you find a recipe that called for peeled and cubed squash […]
September Twenty-Fifth This Fall CSA boxes are incredible! We’re so excited to share these with you! They are filled with earthy and fresh roots, warming winter squashes and crispy greens like spinach and kohlrabi to keep us eating green and fresh. The Fall boxes are made colorful by items like stunning sweet peppers and red […]
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 […]