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Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Remember to sign up for the November Storage Share and for 2025 Greetings! What a unique year!!! A warm dry winter, followed by a very wet May-June, a July that was moderate and dry but cloudy, and a very cool August (though finally sunny!) — topped off with aContinue reading “Farm Newsletter October 22, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Please note the 2024 October pickup schedule :  Sept 24+26 – Normal pickups Oct 1+3 –        Double share pickup – for split shares, both households should come (more info on that in a separate email later this week)  Oct 8+10 and 15+17 :  NO pickupsContinue reading “Farm Newsletter September 24, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! September weather can go a few directions, but this sunny warm pattern is by far our favorite. So many crops are still growing, or ripening, and modest warmth plus clear sunny skies is the best for keeping them healthy and making fall harvests easier. WeContinue reading “Farm Newsletter September 10, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! It was sorta warm summer, then very cool like fall, then super hot summer for a few days! Fortunately for us it’s been sunny for most of the last 6 weeks, so things could stay healthy and keep growing. It was slow growing for thoseContinue reading “Farm Newsletter August 27, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Funny how last newsletter started with “Summer!” — it felt like it had just arrived — and now it has felt like Fall for a week! It sure has been pleasant, and pretty. The sunshine is a huge relief for all farmers right now. AboutContinue reading “Farm Newsletter August 13, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Summer!! Wow. What a relief from a long spring, which felt like it started in February. And the rain stopped at just the right time -or at the last second – for our crops to stay healthy. The sun and warmth have been great forContinue reading “Farm Newsletter July 30, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Woooeeee! Thank goodness for a dry sunny week ahead!! Hopefully your basements are dry enough and nothing has gotten moldy or floated away. What a ride this has been. On this farm it’s been 6 weeks of rain every few days, 15″ from May 22-Continue reading “Farm Newsletter July9, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts ******WE WILL BE OPEN AS USUAL ON JULY 4th***** Greetings! A couple weeks ago it was a dry morning then it rained, again, with a 20% chance forecasted. We were trying to squeeze a pepper planting in before it arrived, but we only got 20 plantsContinue reading “Farm Newsletter June 25, 2024”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Welcome to the farm for 2024!!!! We’re looking forward to seeing faces old and new coming to enjoy the fresh harvest, for the 19th year on this farm! Many thanks to the mentors and teachers, family, friends and all of you — the community weContinue reading “Farm Newsletter June 11, 2024”

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. 16th from 10am — 6pm AND This Friday Nov. 17th from 9am — 12 Noon. Pre-Bag Storage Shares are for pickupContinue reading “Storage Share Newsletter 2023”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! We are loving the colors of Fall this year and hope you are too! The colors of the leaves and the colors of the vegetables. A feast for the eyes. Since the carrots got harvested — earlier than ever before, to beat the 5″ of rain a coupleContinue reading “Newsletter October 23, 2023”

Farm News        Crop Forecast  U-Pick       Recipes       Nuts and Bolts Greetings! Of all the beautiful , spectacular things we’ve seen and harvested in the last couple weeks, the Alex and pepper pic sums it all up the best. So much color and brightness! The rainy weekend was very, very welcome. We had 2.5″ here, much ofContinue reading “Farm Newsletter September 26, 2023”