Changes to online store & welcome to new readers!

April 27, 2020 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

I know lots of new people have signed up for the blog recently and wanted to welcome all of you and thank everyone for your support of our farm. For those of you who are new to the blog, I wanted to give a brief introduction to what you can expect. We post to the blog every week, usually on Mondays, and you can expect a short update on what is going on on the farm as well as a full harvest list of what will available through the online store (and eventually at the farmers market once that resumes). We also want to thank all of you for bearing...

Week 3!

April 20, 2020 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

After our first two weeks working with our new online store and delivery system, we’re getting the hang of things and starting to see what works and what doesn’t. As you may have noticed, the change we’ve made this week is that our online store is now going to open on Tuesday mornings and close at 4pm on Thursdays. We realized that it was just too crazy for us to try to do a full walk-through of the farm and analyze harvestability of crops (as we always do on Monday mornings) and then immediately try to launch the online store for that week. By pushing the opening time back and...

Windy

April 13, 2020 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

It’s been a stressful week on the farm with the multiple high-wind incidents we’ve experienced over the past few days. This morning, I was about to start working when a series of intense wind gusts rolled in. Row cover was blown off, bins were blown around, tree limbs fell, and I could see the entire hoop house shifting. It was scary to say the least. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that we make it through today damage-free, that the hoop house stays intact, and that the big pine tree that fell in one of last week’s winds and is leaning against another tree continues doing that and doesn’t fall the...

Welcome back!

April 6, 2020 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

Welcome to the start of the 2020 farm season. As always, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. We’re happy to be able to offer this direct delivery service to help everyone stay home and stay healthy while still having access to great fresh produce! Our online store is officially open. Click here to go to our web page with all the details about placing and receiving an online delivery. There will be a Shop Now link on that page that will connect you to our store! Because we are a seasonal farm, our product variety and quantity always starts out small, but quickly...

Direct-to-door deliveries!

March 28, 2020 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

As we welcome everyone back to a new season on the farm, I first want to send our sincere thoughts out to everyone affected by the COVID-19 crisis. I know that it has had an impact on nearly all of our lives and I hope that you and your loved ones are all as safe as can be hoped. In light of the developing situation with COVID-19, we have decided to temporarily suspend our farmers markets and instead run our business as a direct-to-door vegetable delivery service until we feel that the situation is safe enough for us to return to our markets. We will be offering our delivery service in...

First snow, last market

December 5, 2019 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

It’s hard to believe that the 2019 season is truly reaching its end. This Saturday will be our last farmers market of the year and we want to thank each and every one of you for making this season more of a success than we could ever have imagined. Our sales at each of our farmers markets far exceeded our expectations and, in addition to our newly-added local CSA, have helped move our farm from a start-up venture to a successfully-operating business. Even as we wrap up our 2019 season, the season ahead is already underway in some senses. Today, I’m finalizing our order for next year’s seeds and there...

Thanksgiving recipes

November 21, 2019 In the Kitchen, Market newsletters, Other recipes, Weekly Updates

It’s the market before Thanksgiving and we hope you’ll take the opportunity to pick up some organic veggies for your Thanksgiving dinner! With potatoes, cabbage, and turnips still aplenty, we’ve been searching through recipes to find some good options to incorporate these ingredients into our Thanksgiving dinner and wanted to share some of our finds with you! Mike is a serious cabbage lover and, as a result, we decided to increase our cabbage production this year. We eat cabbage in tons of different ways, from traditional cole slaws, to topping for tacos, to stir-fries. We’re always looking for new methods of incorporating it into meals, so are really looking forward...

First frost

October 24, 2019 In the Kitchen, Market newsletters, Other recipes, Weekly Updates

We did indeed get our first frost last Saturday morning and, funny enough, it happened on the exact same day as last year’s first frost! Of course, in line with mid-Atlantic autumns, the weather has subsequently bounced right back up into cool, but not freezing, conditions. However, with the frost comes the end of the some of the summer crops we’ve been harvesting for the last several months. We may have a handful of red tomatoes, but for the most part we’ll be bringing green tomatoes to market this week. I always get excited for green tomatoes, both because they act as a signifier for the winding down of the...

Cabbage & cover crops

October 17, 2019 In the Kitchen, Market newsletters, Other recipes, Weekly Updates

The cooler weather seems to be sticking with us at last and, with some more decent rain this week, it’s starting to actually feel seasonally normal! With the first frost looming on the horizon, we’re starting to move out of the types of work that make up most of the season and into preparations for winter. We’ve finished planting crops in the fields and all but one of the beds in the hoop house are sprouting seedlings of various types. As we reach the end of these plantings, we are instead moving into a new type- the seeding of cover crops that will help protect the soil structure over winter...

Cooling down

October 10, 2019 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

The weather at last seems to have taken a turn in many senses. Not only is it significantly cooler than the 80- and 90-degree temperatures we saw last week, but additionally we’ve had two solid periods of rain, which is something we haven’t seen much of for the past month. Unfortunately, the cooler, wetter weather has introduced some new late-season disease problems that are causing us head aches with some of the baby greens. With our typical frost date usually falling sometime in the next few weeks, we’re hoping to see some truly cold weather that will help end the disease pressure for the season. I find diseases to be...

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