Author: joshvolk

Tomorrow’s CSA harvest will be delayed until at least Friday. Friday’s forecast looks reasonable so I’m hoping things will thaw tomorrow and we’ll be able to get into the field on Friday, but if not we’ll push the harvest until next Thursday after a full week of forecasted thaw. Hope you’re all staying warm and… Continue reading Ice Delay

While I was hunkered down in the office yesterday, Sarah took a little visit to the fields to check that her dahlia babies were still tucked in to give them the best chance of surviving this nasty cold snap. She sent me this nice photo of the snow blown field. In the 24 years I’ve… Continue reading Freeze Update

I’ve had a few CSA members ask me about what to do with the winter radishes and then I got tagged in a post from Culinary Breeding Network asking the same. Definitely head over to her feed for a really beautiful illustration of different types and more on them in the near future. Here’s one… Continue reading Winter Radishes

Winter got off to a good start yesterday. In the shares are leeks, radicchio, winter radish, kohlrabi, escarole, yellow carrots, frisée and mustard greens. Two heads of radicchio and both escarole and frisée was twice as much chicory as planned for, but the warm weather has sped those crops up and with the predicted freeze… Continue reading 1st Winter Share 2024

Winter CSA harvests start this week and I’m hoping at least one of the things we’ll have is escarole. Here it is two ways: in a soup, and as a fresh salad. For the salad I use the inner, blanched leaves and crispy sweet ribs, dressed with just olive oil, lemon and salt. The soup… Continue reading Happy New Year!

We were treated to a beautiful, sunny day on the farm for the final fall harvest and last farm day of 2023. The share looked very similar to last week’s, just with collards instead of chard. We’re taking next week off and then we’ll be back the first week of 2024 for the first harvest… Continue reading 2023 Final Distribution and 2024 Predictions

Today’s share had two heads of radicchio, parsley, chard, black radish, parsnip, frisée, and leeks. With many of the vegetables, I try not to overload the shares by putting in too much, or repeating items week after week. Right now the radicchio is really cranking, the parsley is delicious and abundant and we have extra… Continue reading 6th Fall Share

The next two weeks are our final fall shares, and final shares of the year. Looks like we’ll have more leeks and radicchio, along with a bunch green or one sort or another. I’m hoping we’ll also have some roots to give out, maybe winter radishes or rutabaga, and possibly parsnips! We’ll have more polenta… Continue reading Predictions for Sixth Fall Share

Beets, radicchio, escarole, parsley, green mustard, popcorn and leeks. The beets in the share are a winter variety, which is actually a genetic mix of varieties called 3 Root Grex. Greens are still looking good so we left them on for you to enjoy. Radicchio wasn’t scheduled to be in the shares but it was… Continue reading 5th Fall Share

I got the Otto File polenta corn all shelled and cleaned up today. If the rain isn’t blowing sideways tomorrow we’ll set up the hand crank mill and have grind-your-own polenta available on the farm stand along with what is probably the last of the dry beans.

We still have two more shares this fall, 5 and 6. Here’s my best guess for the next harvest, which will be the two weeks after Thanksgiving (the next A schedule pick up will be on November 30, the next B schedule on December 7): leeks, parsley, green mustard, escarole, beets, winter radishes and popcorn.… Continue reading Predictions for fifth fall share

Carrots, spinach, celeriac, radicchio, collards, salad turnips, and red mustard. We had a rough time with carrots this year so it’s nice to see that these worked out decently well. The red mustard looks really good, too, and we should have more of both before the end of the year. These are the last of… Continue reading 4th Fall Share

Collards or kale, mustard greens, radicchio and maybe escarole, carrots, celeriac, and possibly spinach or parsley. Winter radishes and kohlrabi were also in the plan but we’ll have to reassess next week. The warm fall we’ve been having has really increased pest pressure and resulting rot. It’s been nicer to work out in the fields… Continue reading Predictions for fourth fall share

Beets, turnip, tomatoes, sweet peppers, chard, radicchio, escarole, arugula and leeks. A mix of things that are still hanging on from summer, things planned for later, and a few of the items we expected. The tomatoes and sweet peppers have held on for longer than expected due to the warm nights we’ve been having. It… Continue reading 3rd Fall Share

Foggy morning today for harvesting the greens, and it burned off in the afternoon for harvesting the tomatoes and peppers. We were a little short handed so it was pretty much just harvesting and packing shares, and a little time do some cultivation at the end of the day. Here’s what I think will be… Continue reading Predictions for Third Fall Share

Kale, lettuce, sweet peppers, onions, shallots, salad turnips, tomatoes, and celery. Lots of these items are probably done for the year after this share. This was the last planned lettuce share and we’ll have more next week but probably not after that. Sweet peppers and tomatoes have held on longer than planned, and if the… Continue reading 2nd Fall Share

Once again yesterday I failed to take a field photo, busy day! But I knew I had this photo for a backup. I actually took last weekend when I was cleaning up a leftover share from the A schedule that had been sitting on the after hours table for a couple of days. I thought… Continue reading Predictions for second fall shares

Our fall season got off to a good start yesterday, the shares looked good and the weather was actually quite nice! Unfortunately I completely forgot to take any photos of the share or the field so instead you get a photo of Monday’s rainy day project, shelling, cleaning and sorting the dry beans we grew… Continue reading 1st Fall Share

Our summer harvests came to a conclusion yesterday and next week we start our fall harvests! Here’s what I’m guessing we’ll have in the shares: Lettuce, kale, spinach, onions, tomatoes and sweet peppers, and maybe the first salad turnips of the fall? There are a few other possibilities and we’ll have to see how the… Continue reading First Fall Share Predictions