Since Farmer Cole is busy harvesting our CSA items for the final week, we offered to write his column. At this point in the year, we tend to have mixed feelings: satisfaction, gratefulness, relief, among others. Gratefulness to all of our members who have been with us this year. We have appreciated your comments, questions […]
Halloween brings to mind trick or treating, haunted houses, scary movies and of course, pumpkin carving! It was great to see many of you picking out pumpkins at the patch the past two weekends and now that you’ve got your pumpkins home we thought we’d share some tips and tricks for carving them. Many people […]
It’s hard to believe there are only 3 weeks left of our 2018 CSA season! The weather we’ve been seeing lately has been less than ideal and posed some problems on getting the remainder of our crops out of the field. Stuck wagons and muddy pumpkins are not conducive to even tempers! Lucky for us, […]
Constant rain, gray skies, muddy fields and stuck wagons – just some of the reasons we decided to give the farmers a break from giving us an update this week. Please know they are working hard on harvesting the remaining crops and ending the 2018 season strong. The picture above is not from this year, […]
Today we are picking peppers, and it will most likely be one of the last days of doing so because the impending cold weather is sure to put a stop to growth. Even though it doesn’t seem that we have been picking peppers for very long it has been quite the harvest this year. The […]
It seems the rain is giving us only a few brief breaks, and that is making it rather difficult to get the remainder of our crops out. I can’t stress enough the importance of having dry conditions when we harvest pumpkins. The pumpkins grow on a vine and in turn the fruit (the pumpkin itself) […]
We sure had some rain and wind yesterday and into this morning! Despite being thoroughly pummeled and soaked, we continued to push on and harvest what we needed to fill our orders. We finished up with sweet corn yesterday, and that opens up a gap in our daily routines that allows us to focus on […]
I want to take a moment and remember those we lost on 9-11, 17 years ago already. We cannot forget the sacrifices of all the brave men and women who that day and to this day continue to keep us safe and free. As we prepare for this week’s CSA shares, I look back over […]
With the end of the State Fair and the beginning of a new school year, I think we can truly say fall has arrived. Time to think about the soups, stews and casseroles we haven’t had for awhile. We’ll be including more of those types of recipes as we start seeing more root vegetables and […]
With things moving at such a brisk pace around the Farm, we won’t be hearing from Cole this week. We have shared this prayer for the last four years, but feel it is worth repeating, for new friends. Let Us Give Thanks for a Bounty of People by Reverend Max Coots For children who are […]
