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The 2008 CSA is full.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
We’re no longer accepting new CSA orders for 2008. We have had an unprecedented number of people join the CSA this year and can no longer accept anyone else into the program. We’re excited by all the interest, and hope you’ll think of us next spring.
Spring Again!
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Well, the quiet sleepiness of winter has been blown away with an extremely lush spring. All the plants and trees have burst to life with green leaves and blooms quickly. It has been a wonderful spring for plants. Just the right amount of rain and sun. No hard freezes. It has been wonderful. So green and full of life.
Here at the farm we have had 3 little calves born. We had one in December - Moses. He is our first little guy. Then at the beginning of April we had 2 little girls born within a day of each other. They are so sweet. The girls are Clover and Alfalfa. The young spend all their time together. They play and nap all day.
The Asparagus is in full swing thanks to all the rain. The lettuce and other veggies are coming along nicely. It is so much fun to watch everything grow this time of year (except for the weeds!). Hard to believe it is almost time to plant Tomatoes and everything else! Time does pass quickly when there is plenty to do. We are planning out the CSA program for this year. We are also thinking about doing a few different things this year. I think we need to have a community feast at the farm. You never know where the season will take you!
2008 CSA is here!
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
It is that time of year again! Time to think seriously about all the yummy organic produce you will eat this year. We are offering our CSA program again for 2008. The price is the same. We are planning on many wonderful items for this year. You can sign up any time from now until late spring, but we encourage you to at least contact us soon to reserve your share. Our feedback from last year was wonderful and we thank everyone who was involved. We are still figuring out the drop off/ pick up sites, so if you want one near you, encourage your friends and neighbors to join too! We will still offer the pick up sites of the farm itself, and farmer’s market in Yellow Springs. Please email or call us with any questions. We hope to see you soon!
Not enough hours in the day…
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
It is clear to me now that the farm manager is probably the wrong person to try to write a blog. This time of year it is hard to find the time to breathe, let alone write. Things are all coming on at the same time it seems. We are all amazed at how beautiful the tomato plants and tomatoes are this year. The plants are the most beautiful ones yet. We are expecting a record breaking year with the tomato harvest. Squash and zucchini are plentiful to say the least. We are harvesting most of the day now. All of the beans are producing well and taste amazing. The peppers and eggplants are ripening quicker than I expected. We harvested several purple bell peppers earlier this week. We also have baby melons everywhere! That is truly exciting. There is such a sense of pride this time of year. Getting to literally see the fruits of your labor is so much fun. We are thankful that we finally got some rain recently. We are still pretty dry here, but every little bit of rain helps tremendously. I think next week we will have the explosion of red tomatoes that signifies the peak of our year. Then we will be even busier than we are now. Even though I have been through it several times now, I always forget how huge the harvest can be. We will all have green thumbs (and fingers, and arms) as anyone who has actually picked a tomato knows. I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Wonderfully busy
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
It is amazing how busy we get this time of year. Each week we have more to harvest for the restaurants. We have to keep up with weeding all the existing plants at the same time. We are still trying to get all the plants from the greenhouse into the fields - that is a huge job. We have two greenhouses that are truly full to maximum capacity with all the plants we started. I love growing all our plants from seed. There are few things in life that are as rewarding. To put a tiny seed in dirt and nurture it until it is big enough to go into the world is a beautiful thing. When they reach maturity and produce wonderful food to eat, the pride is overwhelming. People sometimes laugh when I refer to the plants as babies, but that is how it really feels. They thrive on love and attention to their needs. Plants in general are such amazing things. They do so much for us and our planet, we should all treat them with respect.
Thankfully we finally got some rain. We truly needed it. It had been so hot and dry lately it did not feel like May in Ohio! The rain has helped everything shoot up (including the weeds!) All the plants seem happier now.
The calf is growing so fast. She is still cute as can be. We are still trying to figure out the right name for her. Its not as easy to name a cow as it might seem.
Spring has sprung!
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
It has been an exciting week at the farm. We were blessed with a new calf. We did not realize Lena was pregnant until a few days before the birth. The calf is a happy and healthy baby girl. We are still trying to come up with the right name for her. She is so cute- running and trying to get the older cows to play. She has a lot of spunk already! Too bad they can’t stay so small and adorable.
We also had so many sprouts come up this week! Lettuces and greens are on the way now. It won’t be long until we are harvesting every day of the week. The peas, beets, radishes, onions, and carrots are all up too. We planted raspberries, asparagus, potatoes, broccoli, and some herbs and flowers this week. We add 100 asparagus to our asparagus patch every year. We also add 50 raspberries to our yummy raspberry fence every year. I love spring…. everything is green and smells of earth.
Things in the greenhouse are really getting big fast. The tomato plants are huge and ready to go in the ground. So are many other plants from eggplant to lavender. Both of our greenhouses are so full of plants right now it is hard to walk through them! I love watching all the tiny seeds we planted growing into big beautiful plants. There is so much anticipation this time of year, it is always exciting.
The Tale of 1 Escaping Cow and 9000 Tomatoes
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
We have 4 cows on the farm and one bull. The bull is Atlas, the older cows are Kelly and Lena. We have two young ones, Iris is one year old, and Hazel is our runt and is 9 months old. We have to keep the babies away from Atlas for their own safety (to say the least), so they have a seperate pasture. We decided to move them to a temporary pasture so they could eat more grass and be closer to us (Hazel is a real people cow). Well, the spot we put them in lines up with the other cows area, and Atlas was happy to see the girls. He loves to smell them. We were scared for a day that he would knock the fence down to get to them. But, he behaved and only drooled after them. Being that it was a temporary fence, we did not secure it ultra well. We know we will take it down in a week. Iris was smart enough to figure it out this morning and made her way under a corner. Thankfully she did not take off running. We have had that happen many times! It took about 15 minutes, but we got her back in peacefully. It is so funny how crazy an animal getting out can make things. We all get tense until things are back to normal.
This week was full of transplanting…tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. We did transplant some peppers, eggplant, and broccoli too, but when you have over 9 ,000 tomatoes in the greenhouse you end up feeling like tomatoes are all you do. I am happy to report that we seem to have saved all of our lettuce sprouts and asparagus from the cold blast of the last few weeks. Hopefully that is the last of it!
