We are entering the green season.  This time of year, we are especially aware of the amazing palette of green outside, from new buds on trees, to green seedlings poking out of trays in the greenhouse, to garlic shoots bursting through the straw mulch, to annoying weeds in the fields taking advantage of the early […]

Welcome to the official start of the 2012 growing season!  Our favorite meteorologist stated that yesterday’s temperature was the typical average for the second week in June, so it feels like our first share box should be going out the door next week already.  That would mean the fields would be full of bountiful produce, […]

One of the things we most look forward to this time of year is the arrival of all of our seeds that we order from the various seed companies.  After a very long, in-depth planning and ordering process, it is exciting to have the seeds arrive at the farm. Abe thinks so too!  Since Christmas […]

Mid-January has passed, Abe’s first birthday is just around the corner, and we are busy preparing for the 2012 season.  We just placed our seed orders (share members: thank you for your suggestions from the Share Member Surveys!), and our bulk potting soil recently arrived, waiting patiently for March when we will fire-up our new […]

With our first significant rain in several weeks behind us and the first possible snow of the season ahead of us (Paul Huttner from MPR says we might see flakes next Tuesday!) we know it must be October. We have just one week left to go in our CSA season and we are looking forward […]

With the first frost of the season bringing the official end to the summer crops, we now have a little more time for projects around the farm.  The biggest of these projects is putting up our new greenhouse.  During the last two weeks we have spent a lot of time working on preparing the site […]

As the season of flowering plants is waning, we would like to take a moment to thank all the pollinators who make the fruits of the garden possible.  We would be unable to harvest such bounty from the soil if we did not have the myriad pollinators around the farm, especially the bees.  We were […]

If not for the watermelon and the cantaloupe which made an appearance in last week’s CSA shares, you would not be able to convince us that it was already the middle of August.   As of this week, the CSA season has reached the halfway point.  This halfway point is always a time when we […]

After a soggy harvest day on Thursday, one in which we were having to dump water out of our rubber boots, we awoke this morning to another round of heavy rains. It was a morning in which it stayed dark late into the morning giving it a lazy, weekend-like feel. With the power out and […]

What can we say, we feel pretty lucky to have a little one who is so patient with us as we subject him to all sorts of farming nuances.  From trellising tomatoes to moving irrigation lines, weeding long rows to washing lettuce, Abe is along for the ride.  Some of these things he seems to […]