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…

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…

It is the final week of our 2020 CSA season.  Many, many thanks to our CSA members for supporting us this year.  As we have said a million times or more, we love being CSA farmers.  Even though the CSA is over for the year,…

This week we are debuting our new farm store!  You can go to tubbycreekfarm.com and order produce, goat meat and honey for delivery to your home, pick up here at the farm, or pick up at the Cooper Young Community farmers market.  The store is…

What a week it has been.  I am sure many of you have also been watching and waiting and hoping and fearing as election results continue to come in.  At times like this I am grateful to have meaningful work.  Nothing clears the mind like…

The Early Bird Gets the Seeds? I have finished putting together our seed order for 2021.  This is the earliest I have ever completed a seed order.  It is typically a task for the dark days of December.  Why so proactive this year?  Because I…

Coasting into fall It is time to start coasting into fall.  While we are still busy and there will always be plenty to do, the sense of urgency is waning.  That runaway freight train feeling that defines spring and summer is gone.  It is time…

We did it!  We shaped 40 beds, each 180 feet long, for Spring 2021.  In order for us to plant anything before mid-April, we have to make the beds in the fall.  In spring, the soil is too wet.  It is a huge weight off…