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Hey Folks! So the beautiful weather continues… if you are not a farmer. Down here on the farm it is starting to get ugly. There is still no rain in sight, and it has me very worried. We are using all the tricks that I know and all the pumping capacity that we have, but it is hard to give all the crops the water that they need to grow. We have five acres of winter squash and pumpkins that we will never be able to irrigate. We are in between plantings on the string beans. We hope to have enough for all groups, but if we come up short, we will make it up next week. (more…)

Hi Everyone! The second half of last week brought a welcome respite from the scorching heat, with the Thursday storms dropping a half inch of rain on us. It was not as much as desired, nor as much as other areas received, but we were spared the damaging winds. There is not much in the way of precipitation forecast for the next ten days, so the well pumps will be running day and night, and we will be moving the sprinklers around the fields. (more…)

Hello All, It rained! A bit too much all at once, but we take what we can get. We are back in business again – the business of putting seeds in the ground. The sweet corn, carrots, and our fall brassica transplants received a good soaking, and we get a respite from constantly moving irrigation around the fields. There was some wind, which broke a few of our pepper plants, but nothing too terrible. I have one more round of beans and carrots to sow and it is time to start planting greens like arugula and spinach again for the fall crop. (more…)

Hi Folks!  So, how do you know when summer is in full swing? When your CSA share contains peppers, sweet corn, and TOMATOES! Yippee!  The peppers and tomatoes are just getting started, so there will not be a huge quantity, but they will be more abundant with each passing week.  The sweet corn ears are smallish – typical of the early varieties.  We are hoping for a second planting to begin to mature for the end of the week.  If the ears are not ready in time, we will substitute fingerling potatoes and make it up next week. (more…)

Hello Folks! It has been a little dry on the farm this past week. We have sandy soil, so it dries out quickly, and we are still sowing seeds and transplanting brassicas for the fall crop. We are in the part of the summer when rainfall typically depends on scattered thunderstorms, where scattered is the operative word. As I write this update, we are receiving a light rain and hoping for more overnight, otherwise we will be moving the sprinklers around tomorrow. Fortunately, the temperatures have been moderate and are forecast to remain so for the next ten days. (more…)

Hi Everyone! We had a few heavy rains over the past week, which set me back some with my planting schedule – other than that the weather has been acceptable. I was finally able to plant the last of the winter squash and pumpkins this morning. These crops need 3+ months to grow and mature, so I have been up against the end of the planting window. I am also running out of time to plant sweet corn, which has a similar “days to maturity” number. (more…)

Hello All! So we made in through the first heat wave of Summer 2025. We sustained some damage to the crops, but it was minimal. By far the greatest hit was to our pea crop. I love peas, especially sugar snaps. I plant a lot of different cultivars of sugar snap pea, many are dwarf types that flower and produce their crop quickly, but the best are the tall ones that grow six or more feet tall and require trellis. We begin planting as early as possible, with hopes of getting a crop in late June and early July. (more…)

Hi Everyone, Happy summer! It seems that Mother nature has decided to celebrate summer’s arrival with the first major heat wave of the season. It’s brutal out there! I like to joke about how much I complain about the weather, but it is not so much complaining as keeping you, the members informed on events and circumstances that affect our ability to grow high quality produce. (more…)

Hello Folks, This week’s share will be fairly similar to last week’s – we are still heavy on the greens and have an abundance of English(shell) peas. We will begin to have more sugar snap and snow peas by next week. (more…)

Hello Folks! Well, here we go – the moment you have all been waiting for! I apologize for the delayed start, but the dry spring and late arrival of my crew set us back a bit. We have been working hard for you, racing to get ground prepped, seeds sown and seedlings transplanted, in between the bouts of rain. April was dry, which gave us a chance to plow and prepare fields but quickly required moving irrigation around the fields to germinate the seeds and keep tender young plants alive. (more…)