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…

This is the last week of the spring share!  Thank you for letting us be your farmers this spring, we hope you have enjoyed the vegetables.  It was a particularly challenging season, mostly because the weather has been so wet.  This May we got ten…

Sometimes we have crop failures, and sometimes we have bumper crops.  I think most seasoned CSA members would agree, dealing with abundance can be just as challenging as accepting a shortage.  With that in mind, you will find more kohlrabi in your box this week. …

Too much of a good thing Rain is a good thing.  Especially after the exceptionally dry fall and winter we just had.  But it does make it hard to do virtually everything we need to do.  Weed control, pest control, harvesting, and trellising to name…