I love digging potatoes.  We watch throughout spring as the tops grow, flower, and eventually start to die back.  We hill them twice, mounding soil up around the base of the plant to keep the young potatoes covered and in the dark.  What will we…

Is Rain a Good Thing? We’ve dried out now, but we got a lot of rain last week.  Some things like the rain.  Native plants are adapted to our relatively wet climate, so rain is good for the whole ecosystem.  The pasture needs rain to…

Welcome to the Summer Share!  What can you expect over the coming weeks?  We still have some of our “cool season” crops out in the field including cabbage, carrots, beets, and a whole lot of potatoes.  Fingers crossed we get a good potato harvest this…

Welcome to the last week of the Spring CSA!  Spring is such a tumultuous season on the farm.  Full of promise, full of surprises, never short on frustrations.  Thank you for joining us on our journey this spring.  I hope you enjoyed eating what our…

Those big leaves that look like collards?  That’s senposai.  Senposai is a new green are trying out this year.  Originating in Japan, it is a cross between Komatsuna and regular cabbage.  I’d be interested to know what you think!  You can use it like you…

Eat your Greens The beet greens and the hakurei turnips both have lovely greens this week.  The kohlrabi, too, only we had to cut the greens off some of them to get the boxes to close!  The roots and greens will both store best if…

Summer planting has begun.  Our team planted about 550 tomato plants late last week.  It will take about 40 bales of straw to mulch the pathways to keep the weeds down in those tomatoes.  I pounded the 100 or so t-posts that will form the…

Strawberry harvest is just beginning.  We only had enough today to put berries in the full shares.  Rest assured, CSA members are first in line for berries!  Hopefully we will have enough to give all the small shares strawberries next week. Things don’t always go…