This week the CSA is getting the last of the storage carrots.  The fall crop of carrots will be ready in a few weeks.  The small shares are getting komatsuna.  It has gotten a little bug nibbled in the intervening week, but it is still…

Have you been wondering where the newsletter is?  We were without electricity all day Tuesday so we weren’t able to do it then and we are just now getting to it. How sweet it is to have the sweet potatoes harvested We harvested the sweet…

Have you ever decided to do something just for fun, to treat yourself, and it ends up going a bit sideways?  This year I thought wouldn’t it be so fun to have pumpkin patch!  Our local friends and members could bring their kids or grands…

Welcome to the Fall CSA.  Right now the shares still look very summery, with lots of produce that will be familiar if you had a summer share.  But every day we are getting more fall crops planted.  So far we have planted Napa cabbage, green,…

It is August, and I am relieved.  I am relieved to have made it through the crushing heat and mad dash of July.  Not that August is any less hectic or less hot.  But at least now a big chunk of summer – the most…

Did you know that besides Hawaii, Mississippi is the state with the highest annual rainfall?  Good thing July is such a reliably dry month so that we can get the lion’s share of our summer tractor work done.  Ha!  Joke’s on us!  This year July…

Month to month the farm fields are always changing.  Randy just mowed down our summer cover crop of cowpeas and sunflowers.  The sunflowers were blooming and we learned our lesson from last year.  Unbeknownst to us, the sunflowers had gone to seed, leaving a significant…

July is the month of tomatoes.  A major crop for us, the month is filled with the endless picking and sorting of tomatoes.  It seems like as soon as the tomatoes are picked, I turn around and they need to be picked again.  Cherry tomatoes,…