Time to Sign Up for Fall CSA Shares! We are under a month out from the beginning of our Fall CSA share! I call the fall share the “Farmer’s Favorite Share.” It is loaded with all the storage veggies we grow on the farm–carrots, beets, onions, garlic, winter squash–as well as potatoes and sweet potatoesContinue reading “End of the summer”
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Weekly Newsletter 9/20
Time to Sign Up for Fall CSA Shares! We are under a month out from the beginning of our Fall CSA share! I call the fall share the “Farmer’s Favorite Share.” It is loaded with all the storage veggies we grow on the farm–carrots, beets, onions, garlic, winter squash–as well as potatoes and sweet potatoesContinue reading “Weekly Newsletter 9/20”
Cover Cropping!
Time to Sign Up for Fall CSA Shares! We are under a month out from the beginning of our Fall CSA share! I call the fall share the “Farmer’s Favorite Share.” It is loaded with all the storage veggies we grow on the farm–carrots, beets, onions, garlic, winter squash–as well as potatoes and sweet potatoesContinue reading “Cover Cropping!”
RAIN!
On the Farm Happy Labor Day! The plants stop for no one, so we were out harvesting today, but we hope everyone else was able to get in some end of summer celebrating before the rain set in. We’re going to get about the month of August’s worth of rain over today and tomorrow, andContinue reading “RAIN!”
More Drought…
On the Farm Everyone has to cross their fingers for rain, OK? We’re hurting for it now. The storms largely missed us last week. Maybe a half inch over all of Monday night and Tuesday? Whatever we got, it was gone by Thursday. Shares are still looking good for this week, but we’re in aContinue reading “More Drought…”
Sweet Rain
On the Farm I am listening to the rain as I write. It’s soft, but it is a start. Our area was designated as a severe drought over the last week. I don’t keep up with my rain gauge enough to know for certain, but looking back through my notes from the summer, I don’tContinue reading “Sweet Rain”
Tracie’s Farm Weekly Newsletter — Dog Days of Summer, kinda…
On the Farm The ambient temperature would make it seem like the heat has broken, but working out in the fields today it felt as hot as it was last week. The so called “Dog Days of Summer” are technically past us. It comes from Greek tradition and denotes about a six week period ofContinue reading “Tracie’s Farm Weekly Newsletter — Dog Days of Summer, kinda…”
Weekly Update 8/8
On the Farm Ah, August. What better way to put it than two late nights working on the newsletter in a row. This is the hard month of the season. The weeds wanna grow faster than the plants and the fields need to be rearranged for fall planting, our harvest list keeps growing and everythingContinue reading “Weekly Update 8/8”
Weekly Update 8/1
On the Farm Getting the newsletter out pretty late tonight, so I’m keeping it short. I took a rare summer vacation at the end of last week to visit my parents, sisters, and niece and nephews over the weekend. It was good to get away for a couple days, but boy does the farm changeContinue reading “Weekly Update 8/1”
Weekly Update 7/25
On the Farm We’re starting to get used to these Monday morning thunderstorms. I think we’ve had three so far this year. We start harvest for the week on Monday and all morning long we were surrounded by distant, rolling thunder. The storms missed us for the most part during the day and the bulkContinue reading “Weekly Update 7/25”
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