18 weeks of continual harvest has flown by and last week marked the end of the Summer CSA season. The boxes were overflowing with fresh, healthy veggies! Check out our Harvest Totals page to see what went into each box. We want to especially thank all of our shareholders for making this year possible.

We are attempting this year the first ever Winter CSA! Last week our first boxes went out and we hope to see many, many more weeks of fresh cool weather crops rolling in. The temps are dropping, especially at night and the race to put the garden to bed for Winter is upon us.

Thanks again for all of your support this year. We will keep the farm stand open on Fridays and Saturdays as long as we still have an abundance of produce for sale, so check the signs out front if you are interested. Stay warm and enjoy the Fall!

It seems the whirlwind of Summer is dying down a little, and cooler temps mean shorter days. We accomplished a lot this Summer here on the farm. In addition to putting out our weekly CSA boxes, the hay barns are slammed full to the rafters for the horses and the hoop house for the Winter CSA is all constructed, wrapped in plastic and ready for the colder weather.  Hopefully the pics will say more. As always, thanks for supporting your local farm!

Things are boiling hot outside.  The squash and beans are coming in by the bucketfuls and the tomatoes are so close to turning bright red.  Melons are getting bigger by the day and the Winter Squash have started to take over surrounding rows.  It’s summertime in the garden!  The CSA boxes are overflowing and the farm stand is stocked with fresh produce for sale.  For now, we are open on Fridays and Saturdays, but that may change once the tomatoes start coming.  Thanks for stopping by the Blog and thanks for all your support!

All this rain we have been experience means the garden has exploded (especially the weeds!) This week we started picking the first beans and summer squash.  CSA members enjoyed beets, chard, and snow peas, and we continue to pick lettuce and turnips each week.  If you want to see what people are getting in their boxes, check out the Harvest Total page here.

The hoop house is almost done and will be ready to cover with plastic this fall.  The cherry tomatoes and cucumbers will need to be trained up strings attached to wires on the ceiling in the coming weeks.

In addition to the CSA and the hoop house construction, we are opening the farm stand whenever we have fresh goodies.  This week you should see some chard, beets, and fresh basil for sale.

Hopefully you are enjoying the Summer (in between the afternoon storms!) and have lots of fresh, healthy veggies to eat.  Check back for more news from the farm and have a great week!

Happy Summer everyone!  The days are officially getting shorter until next year, but they sure aren’t getting any cooler for awhile!  Things are busy as always here on the farm.  Thursday marked our 4th CSA harvest boxes going out, and we officially opened the farm stand today with fresh produce for sale!  We will try to keep veggies stocked out for sale regularly, so stop by often to see what we might have.  There are still some pepper plants left over for sale out there as well!

You can see in the pics some of the prep work for getting the harvest out, the tomatoes are staked, the cherry tree is under row cover to (pathetically) try to keep the birds away, potato buckets are stacking up higher as they grow, and some of the first squash fruits are setting!  Summer is here!

Thanks for checking out the blog and we hope you are staying cool, enjoying the sun, and are staying well stocked with healthy garden veggies!

Hello everyone!  We will post our harvest totals each week here so you can see what each share receives.  The CSA boxes the past two weeks have been full of greens, radishes, turnips and tasty herbs!  Our hot weather plants are adjusting nicely outside and the squash, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers will be here before we know it!  Also, the farmstand will start to offer some fresh produce in addition to the bedding plants.  Feel free to stop by and peruse what’s for sale anytime!

Thanks for visiting the blog and we hope you have a productive week!

Also, the farmstand is open for business (most days)  We are planning to be open Tuesdays-Saturdays 12-6pm.  Currently we have bedding plants for sale at $1 a piece of 6 for $5.  As more produce starts coming, we will offer veggies for sale as well.  Just check for the “Open” sign out front.

Next week we will have more news about the first CSA boxes!  Have a great week and enjoy the Spring!

As you can see, the first bright red, crispy radishes are just starting to be ready.  All this rain has been great for the garden, but not so much for opening the farm stand.  If you are looking for bedding plants to take home with you, just be patient and the next sunny day, we will put the “Open” sign back out front and there will be lots and lots of tomatoes, eggplants, basil, squash and pepper seedlings for sale.

Also, if you have been out by the garden recently, you will notice a significant addition.  No, we are not building a miniature St. Louis arch or advertising for any fast food chains, but thanks to Neil and Jeff, we are starting to construct the high tunnel!  This will be an unheated greenhouse for extending the growing season and harvesting veggies throughout the Winter.  We hope to have the skeleton for the hoop house up in the coming weeks and will then cover it with plastic when the temperature drops in the Fall.

Thanks as always to all of our working shares for your contributions and we hope you are enjoying the rain.  Stay tuned for news about the first CSA boxes and more updates from the farm.

Jill and Justin also went to pick up some more alpaca manure from a nearby farm.  Alpaca manure breaks down in the soil faster than horse or cow manure so it is easier for the plants’ roots to absorb the nutrients.  Llamas and alpacas contain multiple stomachs so it is also more digested and less likely to contain unwanted weed seeds or pathogens.  We also soak the manure  in water to make a tea and water the transplants to keep them growing and healthy.  In the pictures (above) you can see Jill sitting in the truck on the phone while Jane (the farmer who graciously gave us the manure) skillfully maneuvers her tractor to dump the manure in the truck bed.  You can also see our brilliant idea to quickly unload the manure from the truck bed using bailing twine.  Yes, the twine snapped and we ended up unloading the bed with a shovel anyways…

And lastly to report, we set out some of the tomatoes under walls of water earlier this week.  This cold wet weather may be too much for them, but hopefully they will survive OK.  The walls of water are basically sleeves of plastic filled with water that stand like a teepee around each plant, acting like a little greenhouse for each individual plant.  The idea is that the sun heats the water during the day, and it radiates that heat throughout the night to keep the tomatoes from freezing.  Some of these tomatoes already have blooms so if they make it through, they should have a head start on producing ripe fruits!

That’s all for this week.  We hope you are staying cool/warm depending on the day.  Make sure to stop by the farm stand for some bedding plants to take home with you!  They are selling for 1 dollar each, or 6 for $5.  We will post the “OPEN” sign out front when they are available to purchase.  Thanks for visiting the blog and see you next week!