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week 9 CSA 2022

Veggie shares:spinach carrots sweet potatoes (Elmridge Farms)dry beans (Websters farm ) beets Green Cabbage (Bill Lombard) Red Potatoes Meat Share Chicken Breast HamburgerFruit: apples On April 16th we will be having a farm event which is simply, a walk around the...

Week 8 CSA 2022

Veggie share;spinach sprouts pea shoots yellow fingerlings celeriac onions Turnip Fruit Share: apples apple cider tomatoes apple chipMeat share: bacon deli Ham We got a little excited this week and started spreading manure.... yup we got stuck but it pulled out easily...

Week 7

veggie share:leeks peeled squashed spinach beans (Webster's Farms)carrots beets meat share:pork and lamb chops Fruit shares;apple pears Seeding update, leeks are planted, peppers are planted, celeriac is planted, thyme is planted, kale is planted, yellow and first...

Week 6 CSA 2022

I promise ....... I wrote a longish blog post and I went to post it, some how it disappeared, 🙁 Now I am out of time. I will re-write about our Gleaning event this week. It was a success, we save all of the seconds and when we have enough and the weather is good we...

Week 5 CSA 2022

We were hoping to pick spinach for us to enjoy this week but we heat the greenhouse that has spinach growing in it with passive solar, so it is a little slow. We have decided that it is best to let it grow a little longer so that the harvest will be more plentiful....

week 4 CSA 2022

The Exciting news is we have started planting the new crop for this year. It has been a full on experience trying to source all the required input to start the season this year. Luckily we ordered our seed and soil very early, pre-pandemic 2 weeks was a long time to...

Week 3 CSA 20022

Was a good week on the farm with a blast of of some nice fluffy snow at the end. We started some spring cleaning in the pack shed which is always nice once that task gets started, to get rid of the 2021 dirt to make room for this years dirt...:) The Saying in Jamaica...

Week 2 CSA 2022

Hello on this Rainy windy day. I had a nice plan for the afternoon but... Bruce called and we have flooded basement at the 551 Canard street, which is one of the houses that the Jamaican Farmers live at, CRAP. So, we are pumping it out and hoping the floating Freezer...

Week 1 CSA 2022

This week has been a wintertime weather roller coaster....wow!!! So, with this concrete snow that is on the farm our pigs that live outside now can walk over the fence, so we all have had the pleasure of meeting up with pigs exploring the farm. Because they have a...

January 2022

This is my very first blog post, wow only took 10 ish years. This will be a short one as this is more of an exercise in sorting out the steps to do such a thing. I am hoping that this is where I will post the upcoming share list and maybe a sneak peek into next...