Last weekend we saw one brief stint of Olympics and all three of us have caught the Olympic spirit.  Abe’s stuffed animals are working hard to master their balance beam routine on his crib rail and the vegetable fields provide no end of feats to master.

No one can argue that summer is truly upon us. The heat of the past two weeks have really kicked things into high gear. We have been irrigating around the clock to keep the plants happy in this summer heat. Most of the plants have responded greatly to the heat and the water. There are […]

My friend Amy said during bad weather, her grandmother would always use the phrase, “someone is getting it somewhere.”  June seems like the month when we are all getting it everywhere.  Meteorologist Paul Huttner at MPR referred to the past 10 days as a June-soon, not referring to it being an early June but rather […]

After getting a little behind on transplanting due to the rainy weather, we are finally caught up after a planting frenzy.  In the last two weeks, all of our tomatoes, peppers, winter squash, first cucumbers, melons, summer squash, and third round brassicas were planted.  We had some great help from a group of students doing […]

Last night we had the opportunity to watch the solar eclipse out in the vegetable fields. Since we did not have any special equipment to watch the eclipse, we used the next best thing . . . Nick’s grandpa’s welding helmet. Nothing too fancy but we were able to watch the eclipse without hurting the […]

As with most things in life, farming has its ups and downs.  One of the ups this weeks was planting all of our onions – about 1800 feet of them!  Abe started the morning of planting with us which was another one of the ups.  One of the many reasons we are choosing to farm […]

At 11:15pm on Sunday evening, our new farm friends arrived.  Fifteen colorful Black Stars, Gold Stars, and Silver-Laced Wyandottes were tucked in to the chicken coop for a rest after their journey from Fresh Air Farm, owned by Marty Primus.  Abe and mom let them out of their poultry crates early on Monday morning and […]

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 […]