Author: joshvolk

This is the mid way point of the summer season and we’re continuing with hot weather! Once again I’m not quite sure what the shares will look like but here’s my best guess at the moment: cucumber, summer squash, tomatoes, chard, lettuce, and onion. The lettuce has been suffering, a little from the heat and… Continue reading Predictions for 7th Share

Lettuce, early tomatoes, basil, cucumber, red onion, carrots, summer squash and celery. Most folks will get a green crisp lettuce, one that stands up to this heat well. We’re starting to get more varieties of the tomatoes to ripen but mostly they’re still the early ones: Matina is the red saladette, Afghan is the ribbed… Continue reading Sixth Summer Share

A bit late in posting this week, and no field photo. Monday afternoon I left the farm to Tiiu, Allison and Lore and rushed out to Forest Grove to see X and The Psychedelic Furs. After many years of farming I’ve definitely come to reject the old saw that farmers can’t set up the farm… Continue reading Predictions for 6th Share

As predicted: collards, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, summer squash and lettuce. All the items are there, but I do want to let folks know that the quantities on the potatoes are about a quarter of what we’d planned for, and the cucumbers and summer squash are a bit smaller as well. Some years are just tougher… Continue reading Fifth Summer Share

This time of year it’s pretty safe to assume there’ll be a little bit of summer squash and cucumber in every share. We should continue to have lettuce, although there may be a gap in a few weeks due to problems with some of the younger lettuces in the heat – specifically with germination of… Continue reading Predictions for 5th Share

Lettuce, cucumbers, baby carrots, basil, summer squash, Romano beans, and chard. The lettuce today is red butter and it was on the edge of bolting so I’m not sure if that’ll be the lettuce we have on Monday. The romaine lettuce that was planned for the share all bolted which may have been the worst… Continue reading Fourth Summer Share

Lettuce, summer squash, cucumbers, baby carrots, fresh onions, chard and basil. The tomatoes look they have good initial fruit set and with a little luck the fruit will make it through this heatwave and ripen soon – two weeks is my best guess on those. We’ll probably have Romano beans on the farm stand again,… Continue reading Predictions for 4th Summer Share

Beets, cucumbers, lettuce, summer squash, celery trimmings, collards. The beans didn’t come on as strongly as I had hoped so not enough for the shares, but we do have some at the farm stand. The favas are on their way out and we’ve opened some of those for gleaning. They’ll probably still be ok on… Continue reading Third Summer Share

Cucumbers, Romano beans, lettuce, collards, celery, summer squash and beets. In the original plan tomatoes were on the list, but I think those are at least a week or two out. Some of the summer squash planting is a bit stunted, not sure why, but we may not have enough for everyone on Thursday. Cucumbers… Continue reading Predictions for 3rd Summer Share

A great champion of small farms, CSA, and good, clean, fair food passed away from cancer this week. Many of you may already know this from social media platforms, and if you’ve subscribed to her newsletter she had hinted that her cancer was back so it may not be a complete surprise. I’m incredibly sad… Continue reading Our friend Katherine

Chard, parsley, summer squash, potatoes, carrots, favas, fresh onion, lettuce. Some years are better growing years than others, this has been a tough one. It’s a small chard bunch, just the leaves the leaf miner left us on the last of the spring planting. The parsley is small today and I’m not sure how much… Continue reading Second Summer Share

Here’s my best guess for what we’ll have in the shares on Thursday: green crisp lettuce, baby carrots, chard, parsley, new potatoes, favas, and fresh sweet onions. Summer squash is also possible although for some reason it seems to be having a bit of trouble with fruit set, which I suspect has to do with… Continue reading Predictions for 2nd Summer Share

It’s definitely a late start to the summer this year but a few of the early summer crops have still shown up nicely this week. We harvest a few of the early red beets that never really took off this spring, and more yellow beets that have sized up nicely. Favas and green beans both… Continue reading First Summer Share

Thursday is the start of our summer season this year! The early summer shares are looking like they’ll be just as tricky to predict as the spring shares were. It looks like favas and green beans are both going to be ready, but I’m not sure we’ll have enough of both for everyone in the… Continue reading Predictions for 1st Summer Share

The final spring season share this year and it’s a big one. Two heads of lettuce, turnips, kohlrabi, snap peas, green onions, chard, and carrots. With the sun the lettuce has really sped up so we had both butter head and crisp head in the share, and I’m hoping those will hold on for Tuesday,… Continue reading Spring Share 7 of 7

This coming Thursday and Tuesday’s shares are the final spring shares before we start our summer season (Monday is moving to Tuesday next week due to the holiday). The way we’ve gone from extreme cold to extreme heat this past week is keeping things interesting in the field. It’s definitely been good for some of… Continue reading Predictions for 7th Spring Share

Lettuce, collards, peas, turnips, beets and fennel. I’m posting this remotely so I didn’t actually see this one in person, but Tiiu sent me this photo and it looks beautiful. News from the field is that the crew made progress on the weeds in addition to harvest and irrigation duties today. Summer shares start in… Continue reading Spring Share 6 of 7

Lettuce, collards or kale, fennel, turnips, baby beets, snow and snap peas. Depending on what this predicted heat does the lettuce will either be green crisp or red butter on Thursday, and red butter or romaine on Monday. We’re going to try to get everyone collards but the current planting was hit hard by the… Continue reading Predictions for 6th Spring Share

Hoverfly Flower Farm grew some beautiful sweet peas in our you pick area. Come pick a bouquet, or at least walk by to enjoy the fragrance and maybe as a special way to mark this observance of Juneteenth! The pick your own crops are always free to the community on our little farm.

Chard, hakurei, green onions, parsley, snow peas, radishes, arugula, lettuce. It’s a bit smaller than I’d expect for this time of year, but I’m happy we have this much considering how cold it’s been. The snap peas are so close to being ready and we might have enough for Monday’s harvest, which would mean two… Continue reading Spring Share 5 of 7