Reminder- last chance for current members to sign up for the Winter Share ;) We are back after our one week off from distribution! And already the Fall feelings are creeping in! We also have our final farm dinner today (Saturday the 12th). Thank you so much to everyone who came to the farm to enjoy dinner with us over the Summer in somewhat of a pilot program. And now as the farm continues to move through the seasons we are noticing Fall crops starting to mature, too. We harv

Just like every year, us Laborers are taking our holiday off this week! So there will be no share pick up/distribution this week for a much needed long weekend for these weary farmers. We'll use the short work week to get caught up on everything, and set ourselves up for a great Fall season! Look for our informational email about it!

This week is the first week for our current members to sign up for this season's Winter Share! We just sent out emails to everyone who is currently in the Summer Share with info about how to sign up either in person or online. Payments online are only for our current members. In other news, Labor Day is sooooo late this year! But we are still planning as usual to take the week of Labor Day off from share distribution. So this week will continue as normal, and the week after (

That's right! We can't believe it either! It is already time for our current Summer Share members to sign up for the Winter Share. We will be sending out informational emails to everyone about the share and how to sign up (it's super easy). And the price is staying the same as last season ;) As for this being the last week of August we farmers are feeling like we just ended a sprint race and now have to compete in a hurdles race. Time to rest? Not quite yet. But maybe a small

Some late afternoon this past week I noticed the light from the sun had changed. Four o'clock felt almost like 5. this gets more pronounced in September, but this was the first time I noticed it since the light peaked in June. It makes me both happy and sad. Happy that the bugs and the weeds will slow down finally. Sad that we are on the backside of another season. But there is still too much work to do in the hours of light available each week! Labor Day is the latest it can

Also there are still tickets available for the farm dinner this Saturday. Hors d'oeuvres at 5:30. Dinner at 6:00. Chef has emailed everyone who signed up for reminders, but if you did not receive one you can still sign up during share hours. Just ask!

Yikes! It's always a little nutty when I hear we are halfway through the share. It seems like there has been so much jam packed into this season already that we should be past this point by now. But we are here! The final pick up week of the season is the week of October 19th. And so much more will change be then, too! I read this morning that the Northeast has as much humidity this weekend as the Amazon does. No kidding! This has ALSO been a bit nutty, but is in line with th

I was avoiding posting about Cyclospora in hopes that the news media would do their job, but here we are. So I'm gonna break this down and it is just gonna be blunt because all the fluff confuses people. Whenever there is an outbreak of any food-borne illness it usually relates to wash water and it's cleanliness. Almost all the time it has to do with water. A lot of our produce is grown in desert conditions where water is costly so corporate farms reuse/recycle wash water. Wh

I love it when people, usually newscasters and meteorologists, say that the smoke from Canadian wildfires is bad and that everyone should stay inside. There are people who make a living outside (including but not limited to farmers), and there is nothing in place to make sure that during these type of events you can still make a paycheck and also stay inside. There are no protections, and in fact the legislature is going in the wrong direction to protect our environment and t

Now we are entering that time of the season when farmers do not have enough hours in the day to get everything done that the farm requires (even though these are some of the longest days of the year). Instead we are forced to prioritize things over other things that also need care and attention. We have a visual every moment of every day of all the items on the to do list that have not been done. They are not sitting in our minds taking up metaphorical space, they are sitting

This past week has maybe been one for the record books for us. Of course the multiple days in a row with very high temperatures, but also the very warm nights. When plants experience heat stress one of their defense mechanisms is to drop blossoms (flowers). With fruiting crops like squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, melons, etc...all the vegetables we harvest from them start as flowers. So if plants drop flowers to help them get through these crazy days, then w

We are ready to start the next week of the share and were hoping that the rain would stop. And it looks like it will this week! Accompanied by a week full of 90 degree weather. What a ride! Yes there has been too much rain, like way too much rain. Some crops located in certain areas of thee field have suffered or just died from all the rain (not to mention the wind storms we've had, too). So some crops are looking quite battered, but with less rain potentially we can try and

Tomorrow (Sunday the 21st) is not only Father's Day, it is also the Summer Solstice! It is the longest day of the year. Though it only changes by a couple minutes-ish as we move to the 'backside' of 2026, it still is a reminder to cherish these (hopefully) warm, sunny days! Sometimes I get so tired during the Summer months that I go to bed before the sun even sets :) But it means that Summer crops are on their way. If it would stop pouring down rain for more than a couple day

I always try to point out when the seasons actually change. It is important to remember that even in a hot stretch the last frost we had was May 11th...about a month ago. So Summer crops that can't handle frost and need a minimum of 60 days to mature are at least 2 months out from May 11th. So even though it's warm now the tomatoes are only starting to make tiny green tomatoes, and the melons and eggplant aren't even flowering yet to then eventually make fruit! The official f

The Summer Share is finally starting! Woohoo!! It's really what alllllll the planning we do is for. We've emailed all our 2026 members reminder emails about the share. Look in your inboxes or even spam folders! As for us we are nearing the end of 'Planting Season', which is a really big push to get all our long season crops into the ground before it is literally too late. But finally the greenhouses are looking pretty empty and now it's time for actually caring for the crops

The farm is taking this week to catch up on/keep up with the farm planting schedule. This time of year is pivotal to farms in our climate and we are trying to make sure our crops are on schedule and help them along as much as possible. Yes there has been entirely too much rain, but we are looking forward to the forecasted sunny days ahead. The Summer Share is starting the week of June 9th and 11th. Everyone in the share has been emailed an update for the start. If you need to

I can't believe it is Memorial Day weekend already! This Spring has been bonkers, and now we have Memorial Day on the earliest day it can be. At this point we are just rolling with it all. That being said, we've also reached Planting Season. Which means us farmers will take the next few weeks off from distributing vegetable shares in order to 'Plant like crazy' so-to-speak. If the weather allows we have literal acres to both transplant and seed into in order to have enough ti

This week marks the final week of the Spring Share! It's always short, but full of sweet vegetables! It's been a great start to the season, and with the bland weather it's been a real bright spot. With warmer (and hopefully slightly drier) weather we are being thrown into Planting Season. It's an intense time of year for us because we have a strict schedule to follow in order to get certain crops in the ground in time to harvest them before the season is up! We will be taking

Entering Mother's Day weekend and we have yet to really dry out with all this rain. It can be demoralizing this time of year when we are full of energy and optimism! But as I warned in last week's blog, we are now starting to fall behind in our field schedule due to the soggy Spring we have been having. It's not worrying, but it does put pressure on the future to get more done in less time. But we are all over all the inside work we need to do. The tunnel tomatoes are already

Hopefully we are past the worst of the rain! We've made it to May, so we are looking forward to more sun filled days! We aren't getting behind by all this rain yet. But if it continues with all this rain we will be behind after this week. The fields that our onions rotate through have standing water in them :( I think we are somewhere around 300% more precipitation than average since the beginning of the year. The Spring crops are doing just fine because we grow most of them