7th Inning Stretch

This time of the CSA season sort of feels like that inning during a baseball game when everyone stands up, stretches out, looks around, does the wave, sort of takes it all in for a minute.  Most of the game has been played, but there are still a couple of promising...

Let’s Sweeten It Up A Bit

We have a pretty sweet share this week.  Our Watermelon are the best we have ever grown.  We have two varieties, Sunsweet and White Wonder.  The Sunsweet are the big, oval type and the White Wonder are round, more like a basketball.  They have white, incredibly juicy...

One More Round Please

The second round of sweet corn is finally ready!  Seems like a long wait, but I think it was only three weeks ago when we harvested the first planting.  Maybe this weather pattern makes it seem so long ago.  What happened to the “dog days” of summer?  We...

Shuck and Jive

We are harvesting a record amount of shell peas this year.  I hope all the CSA members are ready to shuck!  I just spent 4 hours picking peas and called it an evening….   still more to pick out there.   I am beginning to understand why the large 100+ member...
It Takes A Village

It Takes A Village

Keeping an acre of vegetables going is no easy thing to do!  Although I bet some of those farming on a few more then 1 acre might get a kick out of me saying that.  I guess it’s relative to the size of your crew and the equipment you have.  We posted two...

Be berry berry quiet

School’s out and the strawberries need pickin’!  When I was a young lad these two always seemed to go hand in hand.  Just when I thought I had nothing to do but laze around the TV or a neighbor’s pool, I was informed we needed to pick the...