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980 miles back to the farm…

I was sitting in the dressing room before my show last night 980 miles away from my farm and feeling every square mile of it. My sister and I were as normal digging through one an-others make up bags and suit cases seeing what the other may have brought we haven’t seen before. It is our little ritual…we get it from our mother. Hey’ when did you get these pants or can I wear those shoes tonight? All that…anyway, my sister was looking at my battered finger I broke a couple of weeks ago when the extension ladder came crashing down from the top run taking my finger with it…every last run…the brake has healed or is healing fine but left behind is the dark smashed finger nail that does looks pretty bad. My sister who works managing my mom spends more of her time on the cell phone then any garden crinkled up her nose at my beaten up finger and said…”Peggy you need to paint your fingernails…your hands look ….I broke in and said like someone who works on a farm? Well, yes she said.. We both laughed a little at that…it is always kinda weird how different but alike we are…the twin factor.  For years my mother and my sister gave me such a hard time about being a farmer…calling me little doo after my dad who was a farmer. And it is true I do have a lot of dad in me…just ask Mark…I tend to be a do-it-yourselfer to a fault and a bit of what we nicked named” Bob”. A Bob is a girl like me that likes to do well more guy stuff…I do like tools…I do like building stuff…I do like my tractor and I do like the outdoors. I tend to light up when talking about a good nail gun or waterproof matches then the latest nail polish colors. I don’t spend a lot of time playing with hairstyles and much more time looking for the perfect garden hat or muck boots. Although I will say I am still my mother daughter and like to drift into the va..va..boom when I do slip into a dress or girlie clothes. My mom call that my Za Za..look. one extreme to the other. I have been that way all my life you see. One minute I am in old jeans the next in high heels and lipstick. Keeps life interesting for me. It’s almost like a stranger…I don’t recognize but I like.  Over the past few years my mother and my twin sister have lighten up on me about being a farmer. My mom will even  tell people now “Peggy Jean has a farm and she grows the best garden…she gets it from me”. And it is true I do get a lot of it from her….but “Bob”that is dad all the way.  I was looking at my sister sitting in that small dressing room before the show and all the stuff that lay before her in way of the latest and greatest makeup…hair styling tools…all neatly packed in her designer bags…her new blackberry buzzing like the farm’s honey bees in her Louie Vuitton handbag….And all I could think about was wow… that handbag costs as much as a good riding mower….and its not even leather…it’s vinyl!  Me, I can’t even find my cell phone…or my baby backpack I use as a purse…they just don’t hold much meaning to me. Now a good weed hoe…that is something I would definitely covet.

Peggy-Black Patsy white jacket The Lynns performing

The farm….we are in desperate need of rain. We are on the edge of losing crops due to the heat and lack of rain. It is that way for several farmers right now. The farm has seen less then an inch of rain since the end of May. The trees and grass are turning yellow and crunchy. I spent 5 hours watering the field before I left for the road on Wednesday just to keep the plants alive in hopes we see some rain later in the week. This is also the time I really miss working the farmers markets where we farmers get together and talk about weather and what each of us is going through when the day at the market slows down. It just sounds winy..when I hear me talking about. I had a farmer email me the other day asking how I am germinating seeds crops in this high heat and drought? He had planted 2 100 ft rows of beans and nothing is coming up. Same goes for his pumpkins. When it is this hot top soil temps being well over 100 and the soils water table being so low seeds will bake and  dry up and won’t germinate. I wrote him back telling him the why his crops weren’t coming up and the only way I have found is to use shade cloth and drip lines to water the beds. His beds being so long this is going to be an expensive bean crop to grow and a investment in lots of man hours putting up a hoop system to cover his rows. I know I have to do it myself in our field when I get back on the farm. Once you install the shade cloth over the low tunneled hoops and run your drip irrigation lines you will have to baby the crop for the next few weeks slowly introducing the plants to the full on effects of the sun and heat. Not much different then hardening off small plants in the spring that you grew from seed. If you remove and expose the seedling from the shade cloth too soon they will go into shock and some will parish from the harsh exposure. You can’t leave the shade cloth in place for the plants do need and want full sun once they have been slowly introduced. You have to pick and chose which crops you are going to invest this much time, money and effort in though for you can’t cover the whole field.

Mark and I went for a little vacation at my family’s ranch/farm last week and low and behold the corn is high and just about ready. As soon as I saw it I jumped out of the truck and picked an ear to test it. Now this field I was in is growing field corn…not sweet corn.. I grew up eating field corn which I like better then sweet corn. Some sweet corns now have so much sugar in it I feel like I am eating a piece of candy not a vegetable. Field corn is nuttier in flavor and hardier tasting on the dinner plate.  This field corn is left on the stalk to harden then it’s harvested to make into feed for animals and other corn based products. We country folk know if we people want to eat field corn you have to pick it when its just ripens or its too tough to eat. So as Lucca and Mark looked on I torn a cob off the stalk to sample the ear. Lucca’s mouth watering all the while. Not yet I announced maybe next week it will be ready. I took the ear back to the truck for Lucca to try. I was laughingly joking as I got into the truck telling my husband and son this is what we call fast food in Hurricane Mills Tennessee. Over 1000 acres in corn is grown this season on my families farm and I will be right there in the middle of one of those corn patches next week singing as loud as I can….Thank God I’m a Country Girl! Not to mention bring a big bunch of corn home for the CSA and Farm Market…oh yes…My little farm may be on the verge of a dust bowl right now…but the corn grows high in the land of the three rivers:)

CSA News & Update

Weekly Shareholder Pickup this weekend at the farm. I won’t be there with you this weekend, Old farmer Mark will be tending the market and CSA baskets for ya. The market will be slightly bare of baked goods and such with it’s cook out singing for her new weed hoe…but in your baskets this week are carrots, just pulled and yummy…squash, peppers and cucumbers and tomatoes…oh yes they are coming in like crazy now.

Be sure to return your CSA baskets each week along with those little plastic containers. We are see a few missing baskets with folks forgetting to bring them back to the farm.

Farm Market and workshop update

I will have to reschedule the cooking workshop for Saturday I didn’t realize I would be traveling 980 miles back home tonight. So I won’t be back on the farm until late Sat. I will reschedule the workshop for July 31st.

Jane will be tending the market as she does most Saturdays.  If you want to cut flowers she can set you up with cutters and a bucket for that.

See yall soon on the farm!

Getting away

Once in a great while you have to get away from the farm for a day or two…but with that comes all the organizing and delegating responsibility of caring for the animals and crops. With so many different feeds and instructions it can seem over whelming, but really once you walk through the process showing them this and that it becomes easier for them and not such a big deal….it just looks that way on paper. Kinda like the farm itself…So Mark and I took Lucca to my family’s ranch/farm this week for a little break…a little swimming in the creek…camping out and eating hotdogs. There were kids running everywhere and Lucca had a great time. I of course was worried about the crops not getting any watering with me being gone. Mark worried a little about his donkey’s getting out of the barnyard. And Lucca worried about nothing but having a good time. Oh..to be a kid again. It is good to get off the farm during the season…I have learned..by the way…everything was fine when we did get back…nice.

Irish ancestors & Potatoes

My Irish ancestors that came to this country in escape of the great potato famine would undoubtedly raise their brow at the fact potatoes are one of my favorite crops to grow here on the farm. I was talking with my mom a few years ago about gardening how to,  her being one of my best resources of great gardening insight she is in fact a fine gardener with lots of fair best in show ribbons of her efforts in the garden to prove it. Anyway,   I mentioned that i was trialing a bunch of potatoes varieties here on the farm, but was having trouble with finding the best growing system in which to best combat the all evil Bermuda grass from taking over the plots and choking out my crop.  I said to her “you know I don’t remember us growing potatoes in our garden as a child though…did I just miss them? She kinda of laughed and said “honey you couldn’t pay me to grow another potato”….Why? I asked, I mean they are such a lovely plant…and Mom, they taste so good freshly dug, nothing like what’s in the stores…She said that may be true but once you’ve had to eat them day and night..fresh and rotten…Peggy Jean’ she calls me…Irish people…and you are one…have had about all the potatoes they want…are you growing any corn? ha ha…  Well, it is a good thing I am a few generations removed from my ancestors relationship and reliability on potatoes.  I really enjoy growing, harvesting and eating these yummy spuds…and I hope you will too.

This weekend will be a weekly and b-weekly CSA pickup here on the farm. We have a few crops that are just coming in such as tomatoes…we are seeing a lot of little red current tomatoes…these are tiny little tomatoes the size of …well a current fruit an heirloom variety that kids just love picking…okay so do I…a little snack out in the field never hurts. I am hoping for a good bushel of nice red or semi-red slicing tomatoes as well for the CSA and market this Saturday. We’ll see what comes out of the field in the morning during harvesting.

The flowers are loving this warmer the normal weather…although they would appreciate a bit of rain. NPT came out to the farm this week to film the flowers and pickle making here in the farmhouse kitchen. They will be airing the segment in July sometime. I will let you know the date and time when they tell me.

My friend Anna has set up a photo gallery on this blog…by the way she is the master mind behind putting this blog site together…thank you Anna. I have added a few photo’s of the farm this week if you want to take a peek just click the tap at the to of the page.  Hope you all a great holiday weekend..Mark and I are taking Lucca camping and maybe a little fishing…The market will be closed this Sunday for the 4th…family time…about time:)

Tell me it’s monday…please

I have been really over doing it here on the farm as far as working goes.  Morning and evenings find me out in field and mid-day cleaning house and chasing Lucca around…summer board-em for an 8-year-old.  I tried my best to make a list of all the things I need to make for the market this weekend…the clock is ticking…but I just can bring myself to think about. After dealing with dinner, dishes and loads of dirty clothes I am feeling like I want to lock myself in a dark closet with a bottle of Mexico’s finest..a little lime and salt…and cry…yep…I would say I am burnt out…need a break…and a cook, maid and someone to water the plants…Lord…it’s early in the season for this.

Poke weed, Pig weed & rain dancing

So, today I am doing my Indian rain dance…We need to have a good inch dropped here on the farm to recover from a couple of weeks without rain. The heat being what it is has sucked the soil dry and the plants are stressed…really stressed. I was watering yesterday evening just to keep them alive for you really can’t water deeply enough to resupply the water table under the soil without standing there in one spot for minutes with your water hose spraying one area at a time. This is also one of the things I like to show interns here on the farm that after a couple of hours of watering the field during the mid-summer taking them back out into the field and asking so you watered these beds deep enough you think? I would say…no less with a little smirk on my face…Oh yes…the beds are well watered..we shouldn’t have to water for another couple of days Peggy…I got em’ good…really, they would say…I would reply as I was bending down over the bed…yep…they look wet enough don’t they? Oh yes…most of them would reply back to me…I drench them they would often reply …than I would take my finger and rake off the top couple of centimeters of soil and there it is…dry as a bone…astonishment is always the reaction you get…How can that be…I watered the heck out of this bed…is always the next thing I hear…Yes, I know you did…and mostly they did…the soil is so dry and parched it would take ten times the amount of water to begin to penetrate the ground all the way to the root where the plant needs it most. With hand watering all you are doing is easing some of the stress of the plant… It’s important to note…It is better to deep water then to just fly though your garden with a water hose damping the leafs and ground. But even than…nothing beats a good 30 minute rain shower…nothing.

It is still miserably hot and humid here in Middle Tennessee. Too hot to get much done in the field I’m afraid. This is weed loving weather too so these beasts are going crazy right now and taking over the farm. It is driving me insane not being able to spend much time battling these bed bullies not to mention planting new crops. It’s too hot to plant…nothing wants to poke their heads up and out of the soil in this hostile environment. So Mark and I along with the farm crew are muddling by kickin’, cussin’ and doing sacred rain dances…well maybe I am the only one dancing…but at this point I am willing to try just about anything to turn this season around so far it’s been an uphill battle all the way..

Last night I was watching the local news weather report with Nancy Van Camp… I really like her…anyway…she said this had been the hottest June in 57 years. We were in the high 90′s for 21 days straight.  And that isn’t what the heat index was that would have been over 100 for 21 days straight.  Our average rainfall for the month of June is over 4.0 ” but this year here in Goodlettsville we have seen .63 in other words we are dry…dust blow dry..  Well the clouds are building so I am off to conjure up Grandma’s spirit to get this rain dance started:)

Summer Time & Green on the vine

I was outside this evening tiring up tomatoes..which have grown at least a couple of feet in the past week when I realized after all these years growing tomatoes I still enjoy, anticipate and appreciate what marvelous plants they are. No other vegetable on this farm garners more attention then the tomatoes nor is there any other crop that can stir up more excitement when they begin flowing into the market and CSA baskets.  Mark and I walk around the field every year about this time looking for signs that the tomatoes are getting ready to be picked. Even the chickens love a good ripe on the vine tomato and will gladly peck holes in everyone they see if you let the near the garden. Just the smell of tomatoes this evening while trying my best to tame these willy vines made my mouth water…summer is here on the farm and that means those heirloom tomatoes are on the way. …well in a couple of weeks anyway…

There are a couple of crops that are coming on strong right now and they are peppers, beans, squash and cucumbers along with our first digging of new potatoes. That’s right…this week new potatoes will be the star of the farm. Let me tell you…oh my goodness it is like eating butter…these babies are so good! So forget about picking up that bag of russets this week at the grocery store I think you will agree once you have tasted a freshly dug spud you will understand why I devote so much of our planting space to these gems.  Now new freshly dug potatoes don’t require much in preparation. Just a little time in the steamer or gently roasted they will shine. Now of course a little hand churned sweet cream butter never hurts either:)

This Saturday I will be hosting our Pickling workshop in the farmhouse at 10:30am. You can order your workshop tickets on line from the farm’s website or when you sign in here at the farm Saturday morning. This is always a fun workshop and you will get to take home your own pickle creation.  Admission is $8.00

CSA News & Updates:

This week is a weekly shareholder pickup only.  We are still a bit shy on being able to accommodate the entire Weekly and Biweekly CSA during the same weekend yet.  But the good news is we are quickly catching back up.  I don’t want to confuse the already confusing for many pickup schedule.

We are planning July 3rd weekend as being able to facilitate a full CSA shareholder pickup.  If you have any questions please email me for we are working in the field most days and away from the phone.

Workshop & Event schedule

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Vanity & Venting

I got this phone call the other day from our local PBS station show producer for the  “Volunteer Gardener” wanting to come out to the farm next week and film a couple of segments for their show here on the farm. It’s funny because I have always loved that show even though I think it needs to liven up a bit..a little too botanical for me in terms of  gardening in the real world. But they do have Jeff Poppen aka The Bare Foot Farmer as a regular which I love and I am such an admire of. This guy is about as back to nature as you can get including the cash crop he must have growing somewhere in the back forty if you know what I mean….and even though I don’t partake in such…got to love him:) I read his book ten times when I first started the farm. He is wonderful and I learn so dang much from him every-time I watch his segments on Volunteer Gardener and from his book.. Jeff also runs the oldest and one of the largest CSA programs in Tennessee as a matter of fact he should be considered the fore-father of CSA programs in this state…vote for Jeff!  Anyway….so although I was excited about the prospect of the show being filmed here on the farm it kept running through my mind…What took ya’ll so long?…and couldn’t you have picked a year when we didn’t have like a biblical type flood in which we are still cleaning up and recovering from.  Yea..yea…I know the first statement sounds a bit arrogant…the what took ya so long…but Martha Stewart found us, Southern Living found us…you are like right up the street…right…Tennessee, Nashville…hello neighbor..that sort of thing. And it is true I don’t do much reaching out to media for marketing the farm…instead I am farming…I know I should, I do want too and in fact it was one of my goals this year to be a better marketer…but…well I am a procrastinator…to a fault.  I’ve been meaning to work on that….tomorrow maybe…ha ha..  So I hang up the phone from the show’s producer and proceed to tell Mark my husband …”Volunteer Gardener wants to come out next week and film something with the flowers on the farm…Mark said…next week…ah, Peggy there aren’t a whole lot of flowers out in the field blooming right now…after years of growing thousands of flowers here on the farm the last couple of years we are running about 30/70 in flowers and vegetables.  Then in the late summer and fall we run about 40/60 in flowers and vegetables. We stop doing farmers markets about 2 years ago opting more toward staying on farm with our CSA program and on-farm weekend market. It makes more sense to us sustainably which is what our goal is…a sustainable family farm. We also cut out a bunch of our wholesale markets for our flowers, vegetable and herbs making more room for CSA shareholders. So I cut back on planting tons of flowers that I would need to transport to Florists and do a couple of farmers market booths a week in which to sell all these delicate blooms. I do admit I miss the farmers markets though getting to visit with fellow farmers and customers. I did it for 8 years  Delvin farms and I started the East Nashville market two years ago and I served as a board member and board president for the Franklin Farmers Market for 7 years. I like to have worked my self to death…I mean it…16 hour days farming, touring, making music and raising a son…I was burnt out and found that I was not enjoying the life I had carved out any longer. Mark also was having a really hard time with my time restraints and near constant  bitching about farm market politics and nagging. Believe me when I tell you there is far more ruthlessness in farmers markets than the music industry…at least in the music business the bottom line is much better and there is somewhat of  a kind of integrity in the rules of engagement, at the farmers market it is just doggy doggy fighting in the tranches for a nickel. Back stabbing, and petty stuff that would just blow my mind and take up way too much time and energy.  So flowers…I mean I do have flowers blooming there is zinnia and cosmos some sunflowers although they might or might not bloom on cue…there are some flowers..That is the thing with this sort of stuff…When someone wants to come to the farm for tv or magazines I start feeling like it’s not enough…the farm’s not good enough or I am not good enough…such crap I know…silly but it creeps in there. I end up spending so much money and time trying to pretty up the place for a 3 minute segment of tv time…ha ha…it will take me 2 years of flower sells to make that money back…vanity is so costly.

The heat is on

Field reading 9:30am...look closely at the high temp the day before.yikes!

I was working out in the field early yesterday morning weeding and planting when I noticed I was beginning to feel the heat start to affect me. It was around 9am but out temps were already hitting close to 100. This a been two weeks of this hot sticky weather with those dangerously high temperatures beating down here on the farm.  A lady from the golf course community stopped by this morning to volunteer with helping us stake and weed our pepper patches in the garden. She got here around 7am as I was walking out the farmhouse door to begin watering the plants in the market pavilion. She was dressed for the job except for wearing open toed shoes which is a no-no out in the field. There are too many weeds with stickers that love bare toes and they hurt… But here we are and she is ready to help out…and we need all the help we can get help… so I asked her to start watering the plants while I made up a batch of our fertilizer that will need to sit for while to allow the chlorine to evaporate from the water before I add the worm tea and Kelp to the 5 gal pail. Perrin had arrived followed by Mika around 8am. Mika and Perrin work out here on the farm a couple of days week helping me as my crew. Perrin though started her new job at Bell’s Bend nature center so she only makes to the farm every couple of weeks for a few hours. Mika helps out getting CSA baskets packed and ready on Saturdays and one day or two days a week here on the farm helping me plant, weed ect… This morning I wanted to focus on the peppers…They are just beginning to set fruit and need some attention and a good dose of nutrients to get them ready for long and what looks like hot season.  You have to be careful with peppers especially when they are stressed and with the heat we’ve been having and no rain in two weeks plus these peppers are setting fruit so they are working hard. Peppers can easily wilt and they are susceptible to many different viruses that can kill them from soil born to bug carrying diseases. When they are stressed they are even more susceptible.  This morning I want to get them staked to keep them from leaning weighted down by their fruit. This will help control soil borne pathogens from getting on the leafs.  Also staking them allows rain water to roll straight down their stems right to the roots where they need the water. After gathering the girls around the pepper plants demonstrating what and how I wanted to peppers tied up to their stakes and the soil around them cleared and lightly fluffed they set to work. I turned my attention to weeding the planting beds right next to them.

Staked Pepper plants

Around 9:oo am. our volunteer had about all the steam bath she could stand and by 9:30 we all felt a little over heated and called it a morning.  The sun radiates out in the field off the soil and dewy grass. It acts like a steam room and can easily be ten degrees or more hotter than say on the patio. I have known several farmers having heat strokes out in the field…including myself.  We have had a bit of a wild ride so far this season weather wise…but believe me when I say….Every year as a farmer is a wild weather ride. Ah but…ya..hooo.. Beats the office any day:)

Snap beans on the vine

last weekend we harvested our first crop of squash, cucumbers and beans of the season. We didn’t have enough for all of CSA’s and

dibbied it up on a first come bases.  I don’t like to do that for I want every shareholder to get most of the same things.

But like you will hear me tell you over and over…it’s farming not shopping and with that you only get what mother earth gives ya…In the next couple of weeks most of the post flooded bed will start producing so everyone will be seeing lots of squash and beans over the next few weeks.

We are still kinda limping along produce wise after the flood washed away 2/3rds of our planting beds…the good news is they were all replanted so it’s just a matter of time before these beds start producing. For now we are thankful for some fellow farmers to help out when we run low…and they are in the plenty for it runs vice versa.

CSA News & Updates

This weekend our Bi-weekly shareholders will have a pickup here on the farm….remember Bi-weekly only this weekend. With is hot weather I am again asking that our CSA shareholders please pickup Saturday early….meaning well before noon if at all possible. They are forecasting 98 degrees for Saturday which translates into 115 in the field if this humidity stays in place and we will stop harvesting at noon….safety first.   Again this weekend I am closing the farm on Sunday at 12pm. due to the heat. So if any of you bi-weekly shareholders need to pickup Sunday rather the Saturday please drop me an email so we can put your basket in the cooler Saturday.

Beets and fennel are the stars of your basket this weekend and we have included recipes in your share roasted beets with fennel by the way is fabulous! Be sure and remember flowers come with your share so please go harvest them…bring those cutters the sunflowers are blooming as well as rubeckia, zinnia’s and cosmos.

Fresh flowers

I wanted to also add to our shareholders that due to this hot weather some of the greens such as kale have what we call sun scalding spots on the leaves. These are brown patches where the dew from early morning forms a droplet that when the sun comes our and heats up acts like a magnifying glass on the leaf and burn or scalds the leaf. It is still fine to eat…nothing wrong with the green at all. Just overheated like its farmer:)

Market news:

I will be on tour this weekend so I have asked Cheryl to bring some of her delicious baked goods to the Saturday market.

With all these fresh cucumbers…what’s a girl to do?….make dill pickles I say! That is what will be at the market this weekend…get em’ while they last!

Pickle time!

See ya at the farm!

Signs of things to come…or to bloom

Every year there is a sure sign of summer for me here on the farm and this towering sunflower is it.  She is my calendar, my signal that from here on out things are going to get pretty warm around here. Lovely isn’t she? I never plant this sunflower here it re-seeds itself each year in spite of being flooded, dug around and ignored she reaches for the sky and opens that bright gorgeous smiling face of hers.  Yep it’s summer time…let the fun begin!

News From the farm;

The past week or so we have been in the middle of some hot, humid days here on the farm. For me that means early morning and evenings in the field only. We southern girls don’t do afternoon in the sun….bless her heart and all that…I love my mornings and evenings here on farm. It’s peaceful and beautiful and I get to hang out and talk to my tomatoes…and curse the Bermuda grass. Mark and his crew have planted water melons most of last week…yum..can’t wait.  And I have been planting more squash, soybeans, heirloom pole beans and red and green okra to list a few things. The flowers are beginning to bloom and we should start seeing some bouquets coming off the farm in the next week or two. There are a couple of things…First we have a heat advisory for this coming weekend…we farmers live by the weather…anyway…because of that I want to make some changes in our market and CSA pickup schedule. We need to get our CSA picked up well before noon on Saturday we will stop harvesting after 12pm its just too hot for us and our farm crew to be running out into the field harvesting we’ll melt but more than that your fresh produce will wilt before you we make it back to the market…that is not a good thing.  Second, We will be closing the farm early on Sunday 12pm. which is when they are forecasting temperatures that are dangerously high with the heat index…that means temps in the high 90′s but for us out in the field where the heat radiates off the soil it could reach well over 100.  If you want to pickup a CSA on Sunday let me know via email and I will put your basket in the cooler at the market for you to pickup.

As for the market…we have a new batch of honey and freshly made Jam and baked goodies as well as farm eggs and hand-churned sweet cream butter. This weekend’s market specials are:  Roasted red pepper & pesto focaccia, FarmHouse garden slaw…which is one of my summer time favorites…Our three bean salad and apple pocket pies, buttermilk bread and Blueberry muffins.

CSA News

CSA shareholder….Weekly and Bi weekly We are going to host a “What’s in the basket” workshop Saturday June 12th. 10:30 am.  All our shareholders are welcome to join us as we take a look at week’s CSA share. How to make the most out of your CSA share, How to care for your produce plus tip, tricks and ideas on everything from exploring the  farm, expanding your basket contents  and persevering your produce.

We will be serving , Coffee, Tea and Lemongrass spritzers

What's In the basket?

I want to encourage our CSA shareholder to attend this workshop so you will be able to make the most out of being a CSA shareholder this season.

Tentative CSA Pickups schedule for June:

June 5th.  No CSA Pickup

June 12th. Weekly CSA pickup only….No Bi-Weekly shareholder pickups….

June 19th. Bi-Weekly Pickup only….No Weekly shareholder pickups

June 26th. Weekly & Bi-weekly pickups

Hope to see ya’ll here on the farm!