Author: joshvolk

Green onions, Genovese basil, Dazzling Blue kale, Haurkei turnips, favas, snap peas, zucchini, mixed beets, and Brown Goldring lettuce. Possibly the last of the peas today, but the first of the favas (see cookwithwhatyouhave.com if you need suggestions on how to prepare them). Basil and zucchini are just samples. Confusingly we’re growing Genovese basil and… Continue reading Summer Share – Week 1

Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Next week our summer CSA shares start and here’s the projection I made way back in January for what would be in the share: arugula, beets, broccoli, cabbage, collards, fennel, lettuce, peas and turnips. Fennel is definitely off the list, not sure what happened there, but somehow that planting never made… Continue reading Summer Predictions- Week 1

This is the final week of spring. Next week summer starts and the days actually start to get shorter again. In today’s share we’ve got: Yellow Collards, Italian Flat Leaf parsley, Oregon Giant snow peas, Azure kohlrabi, Napoli carrots, hakurei turnips, Pink Beauty radishes, Sugar Snap peas, and Nevada lettuce. If you haven’t had kohlrabi… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 6

Next week is the final week of spring. The week after we’ll transition to our summer shares. For the final week of spring here’s what we’re looking at including in the share: pink beauty radishes, hakurei turnips, Nevada lettuce, parsley, peas, kale, carrots and kohlrabi are all possibilities. Summer squash and cucumbers will be here… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 6 Predictions

As predicted, a bunch of new items in todays share to go with the shift in the weather. The snow peas are pretty solidly producing now and the snap peas are just about to take off. We’ve got some nice chard bunches, Samantha lettuce, and the first pinches of basil. Beets make their first appearance,… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 5

We got a little bit of a late start this winter, and it turned out there were some late cold snaps so that kind of worked out nicely. It does mean we’re about a week behind with our harvest plan on some things – like peas. On the other hand, we’re a little ahead on… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 5 Predictions

The peas have just started this week and today’s share has the first of the snow peas. Our second plantings of spinach and arugula are looking great so there’s a good quantity of those. Lettuce continues with a new variety for us, Brown Goldring, that comes highly recommended for its flavor – the insects seem… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 4

Here’s my best guess at next week’s share, with the caveat that my batting average so far on these has been mediocre: Romaine lettuce (or at least some sort of lettuce), and Hakurei turnips are the two items I’m pretty sure of. Lots of possibilities on greens and I’m not sure which yet but chard,… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 4 Predictions

This week’s share has the finest of the Hakurei salad turnips, Pirat butter lettuce, bok choi, collard greens, fava greens and green onions – a very green share. Monday folks got fewer radishes than Thursday last week and we still had a few in the field so Monday gets the last of the D’Avignon radishes… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 3

Chard Spinach? Collards? Choi? Fava tips Lettuce Green onions Turnips It’s all possible but those ones with the question marks are probably going to wait at least a week or two. I did see some little peas starting to form, and the first of the carrots starting to take shape, more clues for future shares.… Continue reading Spring Share – Week 3 Predictions

Well, I was a little off in my prediction but not too far. In the share today: more spinach and arugula, a head of lettuce, D’Avignon radishes, Dazzling Blue kale, and fava greens. Our first crop of spinach did better than expected so we’ve got a bit more for this week. Similarly, I always plant… Continue reading Sprin Share – week 2

The first week of CSA harvests is done, now we start thinking about week 2. Here’s my first in a weekly series of guesses of shares for the following week: Most likely are lettuce (probably just one head from here out), small kale bunches, fava greens, spinach (fingers crossed it doesn’t bolt). Outside possibilities are… Continue reading Week 2 predictions

First harvest of 2019 is a green one! Butter lettuce and red leaf this week, a small bunch of chives, two heads of choi, arugula, and spinach. We’re starting out a bit small, but the share should grow a bit through the spring and we should add a few colors as the season goes on… Continue reading First Spring Share

Update 5/7/19 – We’ve hired our full crew for the summer. It was a great group of applicants and I wish I could have hired more folks. I’ll leave up this post for posterity. If you want a hands on experience at the farm we do have a kids garden area that where we can… Continue reading We’re Hiring!

The seeds for 2019 are all here and I just bought paid for them and all of our potting mix and soil amendments using the money that came in from our first CSA signups of the year! CSA signups are off to a good start but we still have plenty of space for more members… Continue reading Starting with seeds

We just put up the sign up information for the 2019 season over on the CSA page! It took us a little longer than we hoped to get confirmation that we’d be able to grow on the same site again in 2019, but it looks like we’re good to go and we’ve been working hard… Continue reading 2019 CSA Open For Sign-ups!

Here’s the photo I forgot to take on Monday, the final share of the year. It’s been a great season and we’ve really appreciated all of the thanks we’ve been getting this week. We’re also feeling very thankful for the support of all of our members who have been an integral part of making this… Continue reading Final share for 2018

The final CSA week of 2018 and it got too dark for me to take a photo of the share before it was all harvested. Instead, I’m posting a photo of one of the giant parsnips we harvested today, and a Matina tomato I gleaned from the hoop house for my lunch. Here’s the list… Continue reading 8th Fall Share, Week 27

Next week is the final week of the 2018 CSA season and right now it’s looking like the weather will be kind to us for another week. Here’s what I think will be in the share, but of course we never know what kind of shape things are in until we actually harvest them –… Continue reading Week 27 Predictions

A little smaller share today as we approach the end of the fall season (only one more week of harvests after this week). Big heads of Treviso red radicchio with beautiful, sweet, crunchy white ribs, and giant celeriac are the centerpieces of the share this week. We left some of the tops on the celeriac… Continue reading 7th Fall Share, Week 25