Right now the farm is giving us bountiful harvests of squash, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes.  So that is what is in the shares this week.  The field is looking beautiful, but we are still waiting on the okra and melons to start producing.  Everything is…

On Friday I found a hen behaving suspiciously.  She was sitting really low to the ground and didn’t run off when I pulled up.  Sure enough she was hiding a clutch of freshly hatched chicks.  While most of our chickens live in the chicken coop…

Uninvited guests I did not intend it to be dramatic foreshadowing when I ended the last newsletter by saying cover crops can sometimes cause problems.  But on Saturday, driving onto the farm after my day at market, I noticed something was wrong with the teff…

Every year we buy seeds and spend time prepping and planting things we never intend to harvest. What’s going on here? Cover cropping! A cover crop is anything you plant to achieve some other function, and that you do not harvest as a cash crop.…

Josephine’s favorite carrot recipe First, I just want to remind you that your carrots will stay much crisper if you remove the tops before storage.  Every year I make this spiced carrot and chickpea salad!  It’s one of my favorite things.  And it uses a…

It is time to trellis the butternut squash.   Most butternut varieties grow on a vine, like a pumpkin, not a bush, like yellow squash.  We’ve found the fruit quality is better if we keep them up off of the ground.  Trellising the vines also allows…

The skies are clear and the air is dry and Randy has been out on the tractor preparing the soil to shape the rest of the beds we will need for summer planting.  Soon we will have watermelon and cantaloupe to plant, and more squash…

A lot of firsts in the share this week!  First carrots, first squash and zucchini, and the first tomatoes for the full shares.  There’s a lot more of each of those on the way in the coming weeks.   We recommend taking the greens off of…