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Storage Share Pickup is Thursday, November 17 from 10am to 6pm AND Friday, November 18 from 9am to 12noon. Remember to bring bags and/or boxes (unless you ordered pre-bagged) — and guess the weight of the Blue Hubbard Squash! If you have changed your mind and would like to order pre-bag, please email us byContinue reading “November 17, 2022”

Final Share Pickups of 2022 The final Farm Share pickups are October 11 and 13. Join us again next year with a farm share! The link for signing up is in the email you received with this newsletter. Sign up for the Storage Share (pre-set or custom order or both). The dates are Thursday andContinue reading “October 4, 2022”

Greetings! It’s time to sign up for the Storage Share! And for Next Year’s Farm Share! That one really snuck up on us! The last share pickup of 2022 is coming — Oct 11 and 13. That last week is a “double share”, more details to come. Surely fall has caught your eye lately. HereContinue reading “September 20, 2022”

Greetings! September!!! We hope yours is going cool and clear, like all these blue skies! It feels like a long time ago now, but we did get nice, big rain two weekends ago. A third of an inch sprinkle that Friday night, and 2.5 inches Saturday night. Some of it was hard but not forContinue reading “September 6, 2022”

Farm Newsletter August 23, 2022 Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! We hope you’ve been enjoying the sunny, mild weather! The blue skies, lushness and the colorful overlap of summer and fall flowers is really hard to beat. Those passing storms last week did just that — they mostly passed usContinue reading “Farm Newsletter August 23, 2022”

Farm Newsletter August 9, 2022 Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Wow, fall is in the air!! What a sweet , mellow weather pattern this is! It should be warm enough to ripen and finish off the crops that are still growing. In wet years these cooler evenings can really increaseContinue reading “Farm Newsletter August 9, 2022”

Farm Newsletter July 25, 2022 Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! We dodged the heavy storms on Saturday, and just got 1/4 inch of gentle rain. It was such a lovely sound and sight. We lounged and breathed it in. Looking at the fields a couple hours later though you couldn’tContinue reading “Farm Newsletter July 25, 2022”

Farm Newsletter June 27, 2022 Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Gee, feels like not much has changed since last newsletter — we’re still mostly chasing weeds!! But a few good, gentle rains has reduced our irrigation workload, and made the plants smile. We got 1.5 inches total over a weekContinue reading “Farm Newsletter July 12, 2022”

Farm Newsletter June 27, 2022 Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Wow what a sunny month it’s been!!! Heat waves are challenging for a lot of things but are awesome for killing weeds! So in the last couple weeks we cultivated, hoed and hand-weeded nearly everything, some of it twice, andContinue reading “Farm Newsletter June 27, 2022”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Welcome to the farm for 2022!!!! We had a good laugh about the short version of this newsletter: Some things got planted late and nothing really grew for a while, but now things are finally growing fast. We’ve been weeding and cultivating but there’s alwaysContinue reading “Farm Newsletter June 14, 2022”

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 — AND Guess the weight of BLAFFY, our CAT! Pickup is This Thursday Nov. 18th from 10am — 6pm AND This Friday Nov. 19th from 9am —Continue reading “Storage Share Newsletter 2021”

Farm News        Crop Forecast U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Final share pickups of 2021 are this week —  October 12 and 14. Join us again next year with a farm share! And Sign Up for the Storage Share — Pre-set or Custom Order, or Both — The links for signing up are in the email you received withContinue reading “Farm Newsletter October 12, 2021”