Author: Josephine Alexander

New High Tunnel

New High Tunnel

I don’t think I would have believed that four people could install a 2000 square foot high tunnel in six hours if I weren’t witnessing it today.  The crew from Scenic Acres is putting up a new high tunnel.   This is one instance where it…

CSA Kick off

CSA Kick off

Today we harvested and packed the very first vegetables that our field had to offer this year.  Hooray for a new season just beginning!  Right now there are a lot of leafy greens.  This week the boxes include baby komatsuna.  A Brassica rapa, komatsuna’s closest…

Hurry Up and Wait!

Hurry Up and Wait!

The potatoes are sprouting and the apple trees are blooming.  It must be April!   The apple trees are giving us a quite a show and I’m hoping we will get a substantial harvest this year.  That late cold snap looks like it nipped whatever pears…

Marching into Spring

Marching into Spring

It’s officially spring!  We are excited about 2023 and happy to have a tough winter behind us.  It started with near record lows in late December that had us scrambling to harvest as much as possible.  In early February an ice storm knocked down the…

Winter Farm Update

Winter Farm Update

2023 CSA open for new and returning members Registration is now open for our 2023 CSA share!  Members receive a weekly box of fresh, seasonal, Certified Naturally Grown produce from our farm in Ashland, MS.  Home delivery and pick-up locations are available, including two new…

New for 2023: Winter CSA

New for 2023: Winter CSA

We are trying something new!  We are piloting a Winter CSA share for the months of January and February.  There is a lot you can grow in the winter in Mississippi, especially with protected culture in the high tunnels.  The CSA will also feature winter…

Final week of our 2022 CSA

Final week of our 2022 CSA

Yahoo! We have reached the final week of our 2022 CSA.  What perfect timing, as it seems winter has arrived early.  We are so grateful that we get to do this amazing, hard, rewarding work.  And we get to do it because of you.  I…

Diving into November

Diving into November

We had such a wonderful time at the farm party and we were so wore out that we didn’t manage to get a newsletter out at all last week, our apologies!  But we really did have a fantastic time.  We were so caught up socializing…