Ramping
A few announcements then a bunch of words about the farm. We have a couple of farming opportunities for members this week. On Wednesday, September 6th we will be processing the onions and shallots. This involves sitting on a chair — though I suppose you could stand as well — and rubbing the outside skin […]
Another Low Energy Farming Opportunity!
Calling all retirees, full time parents and anyone else who is looking for something to do on Wednesday morning (9/6) starting around 10:00. We have a lot of squash that needs room in the greenhouse and to make room we need to get the onions processed and out of there! And to do so takes […]
Pollination Investigation
A bunch of announcements then a bunch of other things. We are still in need of help, either as a volunteer or as an employee. Let me know which you prefer! We are still taking back the cherry tomato pint containers. Here are a couple of items I probably should have mentioned before about storing […]
Fruit Flies Like a Banana
A couple of announcements then on to the main story! There will be a LOT of tomatoes this week. Like, I mean, A LOT! Please plan accordingly. We are still taking back the cherry tomato pints. Bring them to the pick-up tent or place them in the delivery tote. We are still looking for help! […]
Inflection
Last week I was mentioning to a few people how we never seem to have the day long or multi-day long rains anymore. If we get rain it always comes as storms that blow in, dump a bunch of rain then vanish — all in an hour or so. Well, based on the weather from […]
Farm Tour: Episode 4
This is a good week for a corn feed! Please plan accordingly. The onions are at a stage where washing them prior to giving them out would be worse than giving them out kind of dirty. So we probably won’t wash them anymore. Speaking of onions, they are also at the stage where we can […]
Farm Tour: Episode 3
A couple of word on some of the things we are giving out this week followed by this week’s Farm News! Just a quick word on cauliflower. We’ve noticed over the many years that cauliflower seems particularly susceptible to problems that cause the head to degrade after harvest. We’ve taken various steps to try to […]
Farm Tour: Episode 2
First some announcements then on to our multi-week virtual farm tour. During the week of August 28 we will be short half our staff. If you have any free time that week and could lend a hand we would really appreciate it! Mark it on your calendar now so that something less important doesn’t take […]
Garlic Harvest
I realize we’ve been a little wishy-washy on our commitment to harvesting garlic but we finally got the weather control system working so that tomorrow (Friday) we dialed up the perfect garlic harvesting weather! If you are looking for something to do or a way to use up some of that sweet, sweet PTO, come […]