Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 7-21-2011
We’ve had weather all week this week. It never stops. Day after day after day more weather weather weather. Not much you can do about it so we farmers just suffer through. Not much happening on the farm these days. Just a lot of harvesting, weeding and planting. What? You are still planting? Yup. If […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 7-19-2011
Welcome to Mediterranean week at Fresh Earth Farms!! Why is it Mediterranean week? Well, it seems a lot of this week’s produce has its roots in Mediterranean cooking. We have basil and eggplants and garlic scapes and cucumbers and fennel – all vegetables found in dishes from the Mediterranean. So get out the Mediterranean cookbooks […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 7-12-2011
Let’s start this week’s newsletter with a couple questions. What is your definition of a Community Supported Agriculture farm? Why did you join a CSA farm? What is/was your expectation in joining a CSA farm? I’m trying to gauge what people think CSA farming is all about. I appreciate all responses!! This past Sunday we […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 7-5-2011
When is it going to rain? I need the time to do office work – and write the newsletter. Since it isn’t raining I will have to just get to the important stuff. Garlic Scape Cream Cheese Our friends at Castle Rock Dairy are making a special run of cream cheese just for members of […]
Addendum to Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 6-28-2011
A couple updates to the newsletter: Cherries are delayed due to cold weather. They will be here the week of 6/20. We have the opportunity to purchase more blueberries. If you would like to order blueberries a la carte please let me know. They have been delicious this season The price is $63 for 12 […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 6-22-2011
This past Monday we did something here on the farm that was unprecedented. Something we have never done before. Something incredibly unique. Something we hope we don’t have to do very often. We harvested for Wednesday’s pick-up. Yes, we generally don’t want to harvest your produce until the day you get it (with exceptions for […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 6-16-2011
This is the 2011 season motto: I hope nothing goes worng. I think it pretty much says it all. It works on so many levels. Every member of the farm should have received an email or two regarding pick-ups, which are starting next Wednesday. If you did not receive an email and think you are […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 6-10-2011
It has been a while since the last newsletter. That tends to happen when we get a string of dry days. This spring has been incredibly compressed. And what happens when you compress a spring incredibly? Lots of tension!!! Ok, that might not be accurate for you physicists out there but for we farmers compressing […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 5-28-2011
We are still taking orders so keep spreading the word!!! A farmer friend was commenting the other day about how he had to constantly modify his planting schedule this season. With the late start to spring then the rain, then the cold, then the snow, then the rain again and then more rain followed by […]