Author: joshvolk

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

This week some of the cabbage was ready, just a bit – and a bit earlier than planned, and I’ve had this idea for a while about giving more choice of greens so I tried it out and harvested just the cabbage that was ready, along with bunches of kale and collards and then gave… Continue reading Fall Predictions- Week 4 of 9

Tomatoes are finished for the year (except for a few in the field that we’ve opened up for you-pick), peppers are waning, but the fall crops are filling the shares today and we’re trying some new things. In the share today leeks make their first appearance, and we have a bit of butter lettuce. I’ve… Continue reading Fall Share – Week 3

All kinds of possibilities for next week: beets, spinach, carrots, kale, lettuce, leeks, sweet peppers. We might mix it up with some Rutabaga thinnings, hakurei turnips, cabbage or collards. I’m thinking that the tomatoes are basically done but there are lots of green ones out there so we’ll open it up to you-pick. Peppers are… Continue reading Fall predictions- week 3

Celery, sweet peppers, tomatoes, winter squash, shallots, arugula, lettuce and chard. The celery is the last of the year and it keeps great in the fridge if you aren’t using it all right away. I’ve been loving it as an addition to salads, but it’s also really good for adding flavor to soups and stuffings… Continue reading Fall Share – Week 2

Here are the likely candidates for tomorrow’s share: shallots, chard, lettuce, celery, sweet peppers and arugula. There’s a slim possibility that tomatoes might hang on an extra week, maybe cucumbers too. This wet cold weather is definitely not going to help those crops though and the fall greens and roots are likely to dominate the… Continue reading Fall Predictions- Week 2

It’s been nice not having to irrigate on the farm but I’m also glad we had a dry day today for the first fall harvest. In the share are red beets with greens, carrots, sweet peppers, what are probably the last of the cucumbers (have I said that before?), a tomato or three, eggplant, a… Continue reading Fall Share – Week 1

Firstly, I hope the #climatestrike is sending a message to world leaders, and that folks will continue to take small and large personal actions to reduce their environmental impact going forward. It’s something that’s definitely on our minds on the farm continuously, and we’re really grateful to have a supportive CSA community eating our vegetables,… Continue reading Fall Predictions – Week 1

In the share yesterday was a small bunch of kale, sweet peppers, carrots, red onions, a cucumber, a summer squash, a tomato, a bunch of parsley and a head of red leaf lettuce. The cucumbers and summer squash are still holding on, but I’m not sure if there’ll be more for Thursday this week. The… Continue reading Final Summer Share – Week 13