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It looks like it’s going to warm up this weekend so I’m keeping my fingers cross that will mean the summer crops like summer squash and cucumbers finally start producing something other than a slow trickle. We’ll have lettuce as usual, new potatoes should be back in the shares, there are some gold beets that… Continue reading Predictions for Summer Share #3

Lettuce, carrots, green beans, green onions, and collard greens. Summer squash was on the farm stand again with not quite enough to go in the shares. We also had the last of the peas and fava beans on the farm stand. There are some favas held over that will be on the farm stand again… Continue reading Second Summer Share 

Lettuce, kohlrabi, favas, Yukon Gold potatoes, snap peas, chard and the first basil sprigs (not pictured). The lettuce is Fine Speckled Oak, a new one for us and we’ll have to see how it holds up in this week’s heat for Thursday. The kohlrabi was mostly large, some folks got smaller ones. Definitely peel it,… Continue reading First Summer Share

Today is the first day of summer and tomorrow, Monday, is our first summer share of the season. It’ll probably be a small(ish) one as we wait for some of the summer crops to catch up after some cold nights we had back in May and early June when the main crops for summer we… Continue reading Start of Summer!

We’re down to the final two weeks of spring. Today share has green onions, salad turnips with greens, snap peas, carrots, arugula, kale and a head of lettuce (not shown). I totally forgot to put the lettuce in the photo but it was a choice of red leaf or green oak. The arugula looks great… Continue reading Spring Share #4

We’re down to the last two weeks of spring after a short season this year. It looks like we should have arugula, lettuce, salad turnips, chard or kale and green onions. We’re keeping an eye on carrots and kohlrabi as possibilities so I’m hopeful those will be in there too. We’re picking peas and those… Continue reading Predictions for Fourth Spring Share

Collards, lettuce, salad turnips, radishes, fennel and beets. We also had spinach and the first snow peas on the farm stand today, as well as a bit of chard and rhubarb. There was a mix of lettuce types so some folks will see a different type in their share. Both the fennel and beets were… Continue reading Spring Share #3

The second B weeks share was similar to A with a couple of modifications: collards instead of kale and extra bok choi instead of red mustard. We also had a bit of chard and spinach on the farm stand, as well as rhubarb and extra turnips, radishes, and lettuce. Here’s what I think will be… Continue reading Predictions for Third Spring Share

A slightly larger share than I planned for due to good yields of turnips and mustard greens, and some of the better choi we’ve had for a few years now: Choi, green onions, red mustard, salad turnips with greens, radishes with greens, kale and red speckled oak leaf lettuce. The B week will probably get… Continue reading Spring Share #2

Lettuce, turnips/radishes, kale/collards, choi, green onions. I’m not sure if the radishes will be ready for the A week but they’re coming and we still have turnips from our first planting so there will at least be more of those. Similarly, the first planting of kale didn’t do wonderfully well, but the collards look like… Continue reading Predictions for Second Spring Share

It was great to see lots of old CSA members and new ones tonight at our first spring pick up of the year. In the share were: lettuces, rhubarb, salad turnips with greens, red mustard, arugula and baby leeks. A decent start to the season and not exactly the predicted share, but pretty close. Two… Continue reading Spring Share #1

Here’s my best guess at what we’ll be harvesting on Thursday: baby lettuce heads, sorrel, red mustard greens, small salad turnips with greens, and possibly baby leeks? We’ve been back and forth with the warm sunny and cooler overcast days. The crops aren’t quite as big as they’d ideally be, but that’s pretty much always… Continue reading Predictions for First Spring Share

I got back from Japan last night and to push through the jet lag I headed out to the farm this morning to get some radish and carrot seed and lettuce seedlings in the ground before the rain. Looks like Sara’s been keeping the weeds at bay and Sam kept the greenhouse watered and the… Continue reading Spring Update

Our spring CSA season starts in just over two weeks. Sara and Sam are taking care of the farm while I (Josh) am all the way across the ocean checking out the beaches in Miyako. I also got to visit with a friend here who grows buckwheat and has a little restaurant where he makes… Continue reading Spring Break Update

We’re on spring break right now but up to this point that’s really just meant a break from harvesting. The weather has actually been very conducive to getting beds prepared for planting in the field and our new greenhouse space is starting to fill up with spring and summer crops. Some of those spring crops… Continue reading Spring Break

Our final share for this winter: leeks, fava greens, yellow and orange carrots, root parsley, beets with greens and salsify. We also had collard and kale raab on the farm stand, and were giving out some pretty large cardoons to anyone who wanted one, I even left a few behind with the after hours shares… Continue reading Winter Share #6

The sixth and final winter share will be this Thursday and here’s my best guess at what we’ll have in the share: Yellow and orange carrots, root parsley, salsify, beets, leeks and fava greens. On the farm stand we should have more collard and kale raab and there’s a small chance if there’s enough that… Continue reading Predictions for Final Winter Share

Let your CSA curious friends know and come say hi this Sunday, March 15 between 11am and 2pm at the Redd, 831 SE Salmon St. here in Portland. The Pacific NW CSA Coalition is once again hosting this open house where most of the CSA farms serving the Portland area will have displays and will… Continue reading We’ll be at Share Fair this weekend!

Leeks, carrots, scorzonera, mache, chard, and parsnip. Mache was kind of a surprise today, and a bit of a treasure hunt. I wasn’t expecting to have enough, and there was just enough for the shares picking through the poor germination and weedy beds. It’s definitely a fun little salad treat that prefers really cold weather… Continue reading Winter Share #5

Carrots, leeks, parsnips, scorzonera and kale. I’m really not certain on the kale; the greens have been tricky to predict this winter. I suspect we’ll have a number of items on the farm stand which we won’t have quite enough to put in the shares, but it’s possible that some of these might make it… Continue reading Prediction for Fifth Winter Share