Author: joshvolk

Arugula, lettuce, turnips, chard, parsley, peas, green onions. The weather this spring is not just slowing everything down, it’s making it super hard to predict how things will ripen – or won’t. The next round of arugula looks like it’ll be beautiful. We have some of my favorite romaine lettuce coming, but I’m not when… Continue reading Predictions for 5th Spring Share

Hakurei turnips, fava greens, young fennel, kale, snow peas, radishes and red leaf lettuce. The turnips are thinning from the second planting and the greens are looking really nice on those. The fava greens looked in top shape this morning and they won’t be around much longer so I went with those instead of the… Continue reading Spring Share 4 of 7

Kale or chard (or both?), Hakurei turnips, radishes, snow peas, fennel, lettuce. We may have more spinach on the farm stand as well. This is a year where it’s been impossible to follow any plan, but at least our plan has been flexible enough that we’re still able to find a few small items to… Continue reading Predictions for 4th Spring Share

The shares continue to be a little smaller than we hoped for, but considering the weather this spring and things I’m hearing from other farmers I’m just happy we have anything fresh right now. In today’s share: yellow collards, butter lettuce, green onions, mixed mustards, spinach, and Hakurei turnips. There are three mustards: Green Wave… Continue reading Spring Share 3 of 7

Taking a look at the crops today here’s what I think will be in the shares on Thursday: spinach, Hakurei turnips, collards, green onions, fava greens, and butter lettuce. The weather today was beautiful, our first really fully sunny warm day on the farm this spring. A lot of our crops are behind where we… Continue reading Predictions for 3rd Spring Share

Basic arugula, sage blossoms, Lacinato Rainbow kale, French Breakfast radishes, blossoming thyme, Nevada green crisp lettuce, Samantha red leaf lettuce. The spring plantings are still catching up after all the cold weather we’ve had so we’re off to a slower start than would be ideal. In the meantime you should still get a few good… Continue reading Spring Share 2 of 7

At this point it looks like the second share will be similar to the first: arugula, radishes, lettuce, green onions, kale. There’s a small chance the first salad turnips will make an appearance, and spinach may be on the farm stand again. The green onions are small so we may wait for them to size… Continue reading Prediction for 2nd Share

A small share to start the season, with lots of fresh greens, a few colorful roots and some lovely flowering chives. The lettuce is a red leaf named Samantha. We harvested some nice, mild basic arugula and with luck we’ll have more of that soon. Fava greens are a spring treat, the actual leaves and… Continue reading Spring Share 1 of 7

Harvests start this Thursday. I’ve made things a little different this year by running our weeks Thursday-Monday instead of Monday-Thursday. I’m hoping this doesn’t cause too much confusion. Thursday CSA members should have already received details for picking up your first share in your email, and details for Monday members will go out later today.… Continue reading CSA Predictions

Our spring harvests are scheduled to start next week and we only have 4 shares still available, which is great! Big thanks to everyone who has signed up already and if you’re still wanting a spring share make sure to sign up soon. It’s been a busy week of planting and pick up area renovations… Continue reading Field Notes 5/13

We’re continuing to get a trickle of sign-ups – thank you! – and we still have more spring CSA shares to sell so keep passing the word! Yesterday was one of the wettest on the farm I can remember for a long time. Proper rain almost the entire day. Despite how often the forecast makes… Continue reading Field Notes 5/6

It’s still cold and wet, but the sun is peeking through a little and the rain has mostly turned from long drenches to little showers. It’s been nice to not have to irrigate, and the soil has been just dry enough to get plantings in and even do some cultivation. Everything is growing very slowly,… Continue reading Field Notes 4/29

We’ve gotten a bit spoiled the past few springs with relatively warm dry weather but this spring is taking me back to some years where it just seemed to never warm up or dry out. That said, we did end up getting quite a bit done on the packing shed remodel on Monday, and yesterday… Continue reading Field Notes 4/22

The weather is still cold and it looks like there’s lots of rain coming, too. We managed to sneak in more planting, field work and even a bit of cultivation and wash/pack area renovation this past week. Due to Monday’s snow we delayed that day’s work until Friday, and that was definitely a good call… Continue reading Field Notes 4/16

Bit of a surprise to wake up to a few inches of heavy snow this morning after checking the weather forecast last night before heading to bed and not seeing any predicted for a few more nights. I was feeling a little sad that it was going to be a wet week and we didn’t… Continue reading Snow Day!

Crazy spring weather on the farm. Some of it was sunny and warm. A lot of it was windy and chilly. There was some rain in there, and some hail, too. Fortunately most of the rain held off until later in the afternoon, just as we were planting in the shelter of the hoop house.… Continue reading Field Notes from 4/4

Yesterday was a good one on the farm. We got a bunch of plants in the ground: peas, kale, green onions, and kohlrabi; we moved some tarps and row cover (and very much appreciated the low hoops @hoverflyflowerfarm made from our old high hoops); and we even did hoed the earlier planting of peas before… Continue reading Field Update

I finally remembered to take a photo of the fields at the farm yesterday. Despite the rain we were still able to get the first plants and seeds in the ground – peas and favas. As I went to prep the first bed for planting I immediately realized I screwed up the new layout on… Continue reading Field Update

I keep running out of time to take photos when I’m in the field so here’s a photo from the greenhouse which is starting to fill up. I need to take some time to lay more cardboard on the floor and clean up some of what’s on the bench from the winter and out of… Continue reading Field Update