Category: csa

A small share to start the season, with lots of fresh greens, a few colorful roots and some lovely flowering chives. The lettuce is a red leaf named Samantha. We harvested some nice, mild basic arugula and with luck we’ll have more of that soon. Fava greens are a spring treat, the actual leaves and… Continue reading Spring Share 1 of 7

Harvests start this Thursday. I’ve made things a little different this year by running our weeks Thursday-Monday instead of Monday-Thursday. I’m hoping this doesn’t cause too much confusion. Thursday CSA members should have already received details for picking up your first share in your email, and details for Monday members will go out later today.… Continue reading CSA Predictions

Our spring harvests are scheduled to start next week and we only have 4 shares still available, which is great! Big thanks to everyone who has signed up already and if you’re still wanting a spring share make sure to sign up soon. It’s been a busy week of planting and pick up area renovations… Continue reading Field Notes 5/13

We’re continuing to get a trickle of sign-ups – thank you! – and we still have more spring CSA shares to sell so keep passing the word! Yesterday was one of the wettest on the farm I can remember for a long time. Proper rain almost the entire day. Despite how often the forecast makes… Continue reading Field Notes 5/6

It’s still cold and wet, but the sun is peeking through a little and the rain has mostly turned from long drenches to little showers. It’s been nice to not have to irrigate, and the soil has been just dry enough to get plantings in and even do some cultivation. Everything is growing very slowly,… Continue reading Field Notes 4/29

We’ve gotten a bit spoiled the past few springs with relatively warm dry weather but this spring is taking me back to some years where it just seemed to never warm up or dry out. That said, we did end up getting quite a bit done on the packing shed remodel on Monday, and yesterday… Continue reading Field Notes 4/22

The weather is still cold and it looks like there’s lots of rain coming, too. We managed to sneak in more planting, field work and even a bit of cultivation and wash/pack area renovation this past week. Due to Monday’s snow we delayed that day’s work until Friday, and that was definitely a good call… Continue reading Field Notes 4/16

Bit of a surprise to wake up to a few inches of heavy snow this morning after checking the weather forecast last night before heading to bed and not seeing any predicted for a few more nights. I was feeling a little sad that it was going to be a wet week and we didn’t… Continue reading Snow Day!

Crazy spring weather on the farm. Some of it was sunny and warm. A lot of it was windy and chilly. There was some rain in there, and some hail, too. Fortunately most of the rain held off until later in the afternoon, just as we were planting in the shelter of the hoop house.… Continue reading Field Notes from 4/4

Yesterday was a good one on the farm. We got a bunch of plants in the ground: peas, kale, green onions, and kohlrabi; we moved some tarps and row cover (and very much appreciated the low hoops @hoverflyflowerfarm made from our old high hoops); and we even did hoed the earlier planting of peas before… Continue reading Field Update

I finally remembered to take a photo of the fields at the farm yesterday. Despite the rain we were still able to get the first plants and seeds in the ground – peas and favas. As I went to prep the first bed for planting I immediately realized I screwed up the new layout on… Continue reading Field Update

I keep running out of time to take photos when I’m in the field so here’s a photo from the greenhouse which is starting to fill up. I need to take some time to lay more cardboard on the floor and clean up some of what’s on the bench from the winter and out of… Continue reading Field Update

You can come see us in person at the @pnwcsa CSA Share Fair this weekend, or you can just sign up for shares through our website, which will direct you to our new listing on @grownbyapp. Both places have lots of other CSA options, too.

A couple of weeks ago I sent out a note to our full mailing list letting folks know that we’re accepting CSA sign-ups for 2022! This is the first larger announcement and we still have shares available in all of our seasons. If you want one I’d recommend signing up soon as most seasons are… Continue reading CSA sign ups

We’re getting super close to opening up registration for 2022 CSA shares. Mostly it’ll be pretty similar to previous years, but we’re always trying to improve things so there are actually some big changes planned for what the fields look like. I was out there today, measuring for a new layout, one that will hopefully… Continue reading CSA Progress

@hoverflyflowerfarm has been selling her beautiful flowers at our farm for a few seasons now and she’ll be growing flowers at our little farm again this coming year, which is great news! Even better, she reworked most of our low hoops that we haven’t used for years, making them smaller and more useable on the… Continue reading Good and Bad Farm Updates

Last night I got the last of the farm stand receipts entered into Quickbooks and sent out statements to anyone who had a balance over their credits. The stack above is all of the farm stand receipts from 2021! If you think you owe us for farm stand purchases in 2021 check your email for… Continue reading Wrapping Up the Season

Last night was the final CSA distribution and farm stand of 2021. I’m feeling immensely grateful for all of our wonderfully supportive CSA members and our little farm crew who together all make it happen! Like most years 2021 had its ups and downs and no two years are ever the same. We tried some… Continue reading Share Predictions

Final fall share this week, and the final week of 2021 harvests for us. Thursday will be the last day for both CSA pick-ups and farm stand sales. In this week’s share: parsley, leek, Hakurei turnips, escarole, carrots, either a rutabaga or a winter radish, French grey shallots, chard, kale and collards. The shallots are… Continue reading Fall CSA share – Week 9 of 9

We’re taking a two week break before we come back for a final CSA harvest and distribution on the week after Thanksgiving, so this prediction is projecting further ahead than usual and with all the usual caveats about not being sure and the added layer of not really knowing what the weather will bring in… Continue reading 9th Fall CSA Share Predictions