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We got a sunny, warm start to spring and yesterday we were able to get a good number of beds prepared, planted and covered with row cover! All of the plants that we planted in the last weeks of winter are kind of hanging out, waiting for these warmer, longer days to really start growing.… Continue reading It’s Spring!

Final share of the winter season: leeks, kale, rutabaga, carrots, root parsley and salsify. Two types of kale, the leaves are still small, but tasty. The carrots are Yellowstone and are a little less sweet and with more carroty flavor than the orange varieties we grow. They’re particularly good cooked and I like them roasted… Continue reading 6th Winter Share

Monday we took advantage of the slightly drier weather to plant peas, green onions and lettuce and to cultivate the overwintered shallots. For a minute there it was starting to feel like spring. Speaking of spring, we still have a few spring CSA shares available, and plenty of summer, fall and winter 2024 ones, too.… Continue reading Winter Transitioning to Spring

The snow may have done us a favor last week, insulating the crops from yet another very cold freeze. In the share this week are: beets, collards, leeks, carrots, turnips, and radicchio. We also had a little Belgian endive on the farm stand. This was definitely the last of the radicchio , beets and turnips.… Continue reading 5th Winter Share

A bit late with the post this week, but if you’re a member of the CSA you’ll probably already know that it’s because I’ve been off the grid taking a little vacation. In my absence the crew did a great job harvesting the share in tricky conditions. For the record, here’s what was in the… Continue reading Fourth Winter Share

A smaller share this week with: radicchio, carrots, salsify and scorzonera, beets and collard greens. This may have been the final radicchio share, we’ll have to see if the heads that were still frozen today recover at all, but it’s unlikely. Carrots will continue, but expect some freeze damage in those, too. The freeze damage… Continue reading Third Winter Share

Rutabaga, mache, beets, leeks, carrots and radicchio. We left the greens on the rutabagas and they’re very sweet, much like kale. There are two types of mache in the share (aka corn salad), a lighter green and a darker green. These make delicious salad and similar to spinach they tend to need extra vigorous washing.… Continue reading Second Winter Share

Leeks, carrots, radicchio, winter radish, kale and root parsley. We were hoping to have frisée but it got knocked back hard by the freeze in December. The radishes and radicchio have a little bit of frost damage, too. They might require a bit of extra trimming in the kitchen and won’t store as well, but… Continue reading First Winter Share

I stopped by the farm today just to see if the wind and ice had done any damage and there was nothing obvious so that’s a big relief. The wind and ice brought down some limbs and certainly set some plants back. We won’t know how much damage to crops there was until we actually… Continue reading Winter Update

We finished up our fall season on what was nearly the shortest day of the year. We got super lucky with the weather, cold, but not freezing or wet, and harvest went smoothly. Now we have a little more than two weeks before our winter shares start. No predictions yet, but if you signed up… Continue reading Happy Winter Solstice!

The final share of the season: frisée, black radish, rutabaga, collards, leeks, carrots, radicchio and popcorn. The popcorn is Dakota Black which we’ve grown on the farm for a few years now. I posted a video on IG a few years ago that shows how I pop it. It’s an extra big share of carrots… Continue reading Sixth Fall Share

For many years now one of the ways our members can pay for their CSA shares is by using SNAP benefits (these used to be known as food stamps). The Pacific NW CSA Coalition has helped simplify this payment method for us in a number of ways, as it’s not a totally straightforward transaction since… Continue reading SNAP and DUFB

Our final harvests of the fall season and the year will be December 15 and 19. Because I guessed wrong on the last harvest, or maybe I should just say because I updated the plan at the last minute, some of the prediction for the fifth share will show up in the sixth: Collards, radicchio,… Continue reading Predictions for the Sixth Fall Share

Not quite what I predicted: radicchio, mustard, turnip, carrot, leeks, escarole hearts and chard. The radicchio for Thursday is sugarloaf but Monday will likely be a mix of types. The turnip is a new one for us, Aprovecho Hardy. The leeks are the first harvest of our winter variety, blue solaise. Escarole was a bit… Continue reading Fifth Fall Share

Looks like I forgot to post this last week but here it is, the prediction: December! That’s the easy part of the prediction, the trickier part is what’ll be in the share. Here’s what the plan made last winter was: leeks, collards, escarole, radicchio, carrots, and winter radish. Most of those things we’ll probably have… Continue reading Predictions for the Fifth Fall Share

Radicchio, mustard greens, winter radish, rutabaga, carrots, celeriac, kale. The radicchio pictured is Treviso precoce, but some folks got Verona or Chioggia and we’ll continue to have a mix of varieties. They’re all great in their own ways, and we typically have plenty of extras on the farm stand, too. The winter radish this week… Continue reading Fourth Fall Share

Kale, mustard greens, radicchio, carrots, winter radishes, and rutabaga were the crops we planned for next week and I think that’s probably going to be a solid prediction. One other possibility is celeriac. We’ll see how the frost treated all of the crops when we go to harvest, but with a little luck it primarily… Continue reading Predictions for the fourth fall share

Another nice one today: escarole, arugula, sweet peppers, salad turnips, spinach, watermelon radish, carrots, leeks and collards. On the farm stand we had the last of the lettuce and the first of the radicchio, along with a last few sweet peppers, daikons, and red beets. In the field we had time for a little cleanup,… Continue reading Third Fall Share

Leeks, arugula, collards, escarole, spinach, parsley, carrots, winter radishes, salad turnips. That’s a pretty long list and we may have to pare it back a bit just to get everything done in time. As of now it’s all looking good though so we’ll keep our fingers crossed that the weather and pests are kind –… Continue reading Predictions for the third fall share

Lettuce, leeks, hakurei turnips, beets, daikon, fennel, sweet peppers, celery and chard. All this warm, sunny weather we’ve been having has meant the summer veggies are holding on later than usual and we’re getting more growth than usual for the fall veggies. This is probably the last of the lettuce, sweet peppers. Celery and daikon… Continue reading Second Fall Share