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Farm News             What’s in the Storage Share U-Pick             Nuts and Bolts                      Recipes Remember to bring bags and/or boxes (unless you ordered pre-bagged) and guess the weight of the Blue Hubbard Squash! Pickup is This Thursday Nov. 20th from 10am — 6pm AND This Friday Nov. 21st from 9am — 12 Noon. Pre-Bag Storage Shares are for pickupContinue reading “Storage Share Newsletter 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Remember to sign up for the November Storage Share and for CSA 2026 Oct 21+23 —    Normal Pickup = Final Pickup of ’25; Cheese, Eggs &Mushrooms too Nov 20+21 — November Storage Share (separate signup and payment)  Info on November Storage Share Signup and 2026Continue reading “Farm Newsletter October 21, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Please note the 2025 September/October pickup schedule :  Sept 30 + Oct 2 –        Double share pickup — EVERYONE PLEASE READ DOUBLE SHARE DETAILS in email sent last Friday Sept 26, before coming this week :)). For every other week split shares, both households should come Oct 7+9Continue reading “Farm Newsletter September 30, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Please note the 2025 September/October pickup schedule :  Sept 16+18 and 23+25 – Normal pickups Sept 30 + Oct 2 –        Double share pickup – for every other week split shares, both households should come (more info on that in a separate email later this week)  Oct 7+9Continue reading “Farm Newsletter September 16, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Wow it’s September again! We hope your fall transitions are going well. The amount of monarchs is amazing this year! The native flower above is blazing star, and many times in recent weeks we’ve seen 2-5 adult monarchs feeding on one plant. We had aContinue reading “Farm Newsletter September 2, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! It’s been beautiful rainy days but we are glad to see sun for the rest of the week’s forecast! We’ve had it easy compared to other areas nearby — just 2.5″ total here this weekend compared to 3-6″ and even over 10″ southeast of here,Continue reading “Farm Newsletter August 19, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Wow, there’s not much interesting left to say after 3 newsletters full of old stories!!!!!! We’ve been touched to hear that many of you enjoyed reading those. It’s been fun to think of years and moments past, and to make sure we share with youContinue reading “Farm Newsletter August 5, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Part 3 of 3, of farm history: In 2014, Ben convinced Erin that we needed to expand our wholesale sales to make the farm more financially stable. We looked at the crops we were good at and what crops are less risky with climate changeContinue reading “Farm Newsletter July 22, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Part 2 of 3, of farm history: For the first 2 years on this land — 2006 and 2007 — we lived in town in a small apartment near the library. It was underneath Martha Scheutzle — before Martha’s was “Martha’s”, and it sure smelledContinue reading “Farm Newsletter July 8, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Well forget about everything else for a minute — you mighta heard it’s our 20th year! T shirts for sale in the barn, and part 1 of farm history here : When we think back on how far this farm has come, we are soContinue reading “Farm Newsletter June 24, 2025”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Welcome to the farm for 2025!!!! This is our 20th year! We’re having a great time, and made t shirts to commemorate the milestone- for sale in the barn next week! – and will be including some of the history of “the early years” inContinue reading “Farm Newsletter June 10, 2025”

Farm News             What’s in the Storage Share U-Pick             Nuts and Bolts                      Recipes Remember to bring bags and/or boxes (unless you ordered pre-bagged) and guess the weight of the Blue Hubbard Squash! Pickup is This Thursday Nov. 21st from 10am — 6pm AND This Friday Nov. 22nd from 9am — 12 Noon. Pre-Bag Storage Shares are for pickupContinue reading “Storage Share Newsletter 2024”