Author: joshvolk

Oh my, next week is summer already! If you’re signed up for a summer CSA share you should have received an email with all the details on picking up your first share (via mail chimp) by now – and if not you should let us know so we can get that to you. Here’s what… Continue reading 1st Summer CSA Share Predictions

Spinach, beets, parsley, radishes, peas, carrots, a first sprig of basil and a head of lettuce (not pictured). I just realized I didn’t put the lettuce in the photo this week, mostly we gave out our Samantha red leaf, but a few folks will get other varieties. Chard was originally on the list, but since… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 5 of 5

Chard, lettuce, parsley, peas, carrots, radishes, turnips was the rough plan I made back in January for next week’s share and it looks like we’ll be pretty close. Radishes were a week early and we distributed most of those last week, but we might have another round to harvest this coming week, or just put… Continue reading 5th Spring CSA Share Predictions

Fennel, lettuce, radishes, green onions, peas, and kale. We left the tops on the fennel and they’re a nice addition to salads, or cooked greens. Some folks will get green crisp lettuce and some folks will get romaine this week. The romaine is the super sweet and crunchy Brown Goldring and unfortunately it got a… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 4 of 5

Lettuce, kale, fennel, peas, radishes, green onions. I was planning on romaine and some folks will probably get a head of that, but we’ve been having trouble with germination on that variety so most folks will probably get Nevada green crisp. We picked a few handfuls of peas yesterday, and it looks like we’ll have… Continue reading 4th Spring CSA Share Predictions

Choi, green onions, collards, spinach, turnips with greens, red butter lettuce and red leaf lettuce. Normally we don’t double up on the lettuce, but with the heat this week and some extra lettuce in the field leftover from previous weeks it was looking too good to skip and it wasn’t going to hold an extra… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 3 of 5

The greens have been doing well and they’ll star in this coming week’s share. Looks like we’ll have plenty of lettuce, likely a bit of our Pirat butter lettuce, and maybe some romaine on the farm stand as well as green crisp and red leaf – might be a double lettuce share, looking at all… Continue reading 3rd Spring CSA Share Predictions

Basic arugula, Samantha lettuce, fava greens, 5 Color Silverbeet chard, Hakurei turnips with greens, French Breakfast radishes with greens, Prize Choi, and Longstanding Bloomsdale spinach. The first arugula and spinach have done well so more of those this week and we’ll probably continue to have some on the farm stand in the upcoming weeks. Both… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 2 of 5

Next week’s planned share (planned back in January) was for arugula, chard, lettuce, fava tips, peas and salad turnips. The peas are just starting to make their first little pods so at this point we still have at least another week or two until our first harvest of those. Everything else is looking very good,… Continue reading 2nd Spring CSA Share Predictions

Longstanding Bloomsdale spinach, Nevada lettuce, French Breakfast radishes with tops, Lacinato Rainbow kale, Basic arugula. The share this week is pretty much exactly as planned, which almost never happens. I’ve listed the variety names above and think about all the stories I have from years of growing each of these varieties, knowing a little about… Continue reading Spring CSA share – Week 1 of 5

CSA harvests start Monday and I took a look at the fields today to see what’s ready. Here’s my best guesses, and I’ll try to post these for the following week every week this year: lettuce, radish, spinach, kale, and arugula! The lettuce will probably be green crisp, and the kale is our standard, Lacinato… Continue reading 1st Spring CSA Share Predictions!

The arugula is looking good for next week. If you’re signed up for the spring CSA look for details on picking up you first share next week in your email inbox sometime on Friday. We’re looking forward to getting the harvest season started!

Update – 5/21/21 – We seem to have a full crew once again so I’m pulling down the link to the job description and application process here, but leaving up the post for posterity. If you’re interested in checking out what we do or volunteering in our hands on garden get in touch and we’ll… Continue reading The Farm is Hiring!

The blog went away in 2020 as we tried to simplify things by only making weekly updates on our social media channels. It did make some things easier, but there are also some limitations to social media and we heard from one or two folks that they miss the blog and didn’t want to be… Continue reading Resurrecting the Blog

A very quick note here to say I’m working on the plan for the 2020 season and it’s probably going to be very, very similar to 2019. You can go back through the blog (or our Instagram or Facebook for better photos) to get a sense of what our previous season was like. Last year… Continue reading 2019 Numbers and 2020 Sneak Peek

We’re going to shoot for a little larger share for the final week. Pretty much everything in the share should keep well in the fridge if you don’t get to it right away, even some of the greens. Here’s what I’m expecting: Chard, kale and collards, radicchio, sugarloaf and escarole, arugula and mustard greens, leeks,… Continue reading Fall Predictions – Week 9 of 9

In today’s share: spinach, Gilfeather rutabaga, shallots, celeriac or parsnip, chard or kale or collards, little daikons, and sugarloaf or treviso chicory. One more week and we’re cutting it a little tight this year both on maturity dates and quantities of some of the produce in the field. It’s easy for me to see the… Continue reading Fall Share – Week 8 of 9

We’re coming up on the end of the season, just two more weeks of harvests remain. Here’s what I’m hoping we’ll have in the shares next week: spinach, sugarloaf chicory, shallots, turnips, daikon radishes, celeriac or parsnips, and a choice of kale, collards, or chard. Looking ahead to the final week the possibilities include: radicchio,… Continue reading Fall Predictions – Week 8 of 9

It was dark and scary at CSA pick up last night. This weekend we will turn our clocks back which will only make it darker – fortunately the scary part was just Halloween so we’re done with that. Due to the dark we’ll be shortening regular pick up hours for November to 4:30 to 6:00,… Continue reading Fall Predictions – Week 7 of 9

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cully Neighborhood Farm (@cullyneighborhoodfarm) on Oct 25, 2019 at 3:30pm PDT //www.instagram.com/embed.js  The forecast for next week makes it look we’ll get the September we missed out on. I can’t decide if this is a good thing or not, but it should certainly make working in… Continue reading Fall Predictions- Week 6 of 9