Squash, both a Vegetable and a Verb!
Due to overwhelming demand (one person asked me last week) we have started to harvest the winter squash and will be giving it out this week. The calendar says it is time to harvest but the weather begs to differ. I like to harvest winter squash (from now on referred to just “squash” so I […]
Topless Farming
Farming typically isn’t all that sexy of a profession. That’s not to say there isn’t a lot of sex going on here at the farm; in fact there is probably more sex here than at a typical household. But farm sex is not sexy sex. It is like practically everything else here at the farm […]
This Year’s Farm Dilemma
We are open the regular time on Labor Day. Deliveries will be made as usual except for the St. Paul Monastery. For on-farm pick-up you can switch to another pick-up day if Labor Day doesn’t work for you. We are open M, W and F from 3:30 to 6:30 and Th from 9:30 to 11:30 […]
Like A Rolling Stone
When I was researching our situation with late blight I came across some intriguing information that I was wholly unaware of. But first a couple announcements: We are still taking orders for albacore tuna! This is not the stuff that comes in a can. This is wild, line-caught, delicious sushi-quality tuna! All sustainably caught. We […]
Spore Wars
A bit ago on a farm just down the road apiece… It has not been a good week here at the farm. We have been farming here for thirteen seasons now and this is the first time we have been hit with late blight on our tomatoes and potatoes. I suppose we should be happy that […]
The Flavors of Summer!
The season continues strongly again this week. After a very brief break in sweet corn (Wednesday and Thursday did not get any last week but do not fear, the sweet corn week is not in sync with the other vegetables week so you will get the same amount of sweet corn) it returned with a […]
The Other Kind of Earworm
First I want to thank the one person who contacted our complaint line. The complaint department has been working overtime sitting by the phones, facebook page and email system waiting for someone to ring in. It is a thankless job requiring a tremendous amount of fortitude and patience. But this hard work paid off when we […]
The Complaint Line is Open
Heading into week number seven. One difficulty with being a farm is we deal with perishable products. Over the years we humans have discovered ways to slow the progression of the produce’s demise by using refrigeration and for non-organic produce, chemical treatments. Of course we don’t use chemical treatments for our produce but we do […]
This Week’s Newsletter version 2.0
Last Thursday I wrote a newsletter intending to publish it this week. It dealt with my sudden need to make something for dinner which caused me to come up with a great recipe using stuff I found growing here on the farm. I thought, “This would make a great newsletter showing how you don’t need […]