Short and Sweet
This Saturday, October 3rd, from 1:00 until done we will have our annual Gigantic Annual Garlic Gala, the socialest event of the whole social season! This is an opportunity for our members to get to know some of our other members while socializing at social distance while planting garlic of course. We can use as […]
The Main Event
Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t country music sound better when driving a tractor? I suppose for the non-tractor owners it is like listening to country music while driving a pick-up truck on a gravel road with your arm hanging out the window and the wind ruffling your hair under your cowboy hat as you […]
Frost Free Farm
Just a quick mention of this year’s GAGG. It is happening on October 3rd. Mark your calendars. See this newsletter for more details. This Week’s Challenge I’m not sure which is worse, a forecast of frost without any frost or frost. This past week we had the former. The forecast for the Twin Cities area […]
Too Much and Never Enough
Just a quick note to mark your calendars for this years GAGG. See the last couple of newsletters for more info. Sorry for the late newsletter this week but I’m kind of glad I wasn’t able to write it until after we packed boxes and manned the pick-up tent this evening. It gave me time […]
Transition
What the heck is going on this week? Find out below the three important messages. A quick plug to mark your calendar for this year’s GAGG! What is GAGG? It is our annual Gigantic Annual Garlic Gala. We have it every year! This year it is on October 3rd from 1:00 until done. Or the […]
Canning Tomatoes
Just a quick note to let you know we can get canning tomatoes from our Amish partners. The price is $25 for 20 pounds of #2 red slicers or heirloom tomatoes. A 20# box should make between 6 and 7 quarts of canned tomatoes. Let me know by noon Monday, August 31st for delivery to […]
Let’s Get Physical
Sorry for not having a newsletter last week. Things have been a little Helter Skelter. So this week I’ll give you a double album worth of farms news. But first a few announcements. It is never too early to send out the announcement for our Gigantic Annual Garlic Gala! GAGG is our fall get together […]
Random Maturity
A few quick announcements then on to the important stuff! We have a great volunteer opportunity that I am sure many of you would like to take advantage of. We are in need of as many people as we can get to help process the garlic. How does one process garlic? It is quite simple. […]
Heirlooms
We’ll get to this week’s main topic heirloom tomatoes after these brief announcements. For drop-site members: please be aware of what you ordered and only take your items. If you send someone in your place please be sure they know what to take. Also for drop-site members: Please let me know if you have any […]