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week 14 CSA, May 18

What a fantastic week we just had, planting has been going well. More corn, beans, peas, broccoli, all the potatoes and lettuce have been planted. Tomorrow is a big plough day so we can get the onions and leeks in the ground, and now is it time for the heat loving...

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May 11 Week 13 CSA

Here it is Sunday morning.... I am sorry I really need to get this done on Friday. Farm is full of lots of things to do as weather continues to wake all living things around us from their winter rest. Trees are getting bigger leaves, bug are starting to move around,...

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week 12 CSA May 3

Veggie Share:Turnip Beets SpinachSting Nettle Crunchy Bean SproutsPea Shoots Onions Meat shareWhole Chicken Fruit share: ApplesThe start of the week was fantastic, we got peas, beans and corn planted. Then Thursday came and the clouds rolled in and until now have not...

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April 24 week 11 CSA

Veggie Share: Cabbage (Billy Lombard) Celeriac Carrots Spinach Tomatoes Red Fingerlings Meat: Hamburger patties Pork burger Fruit:Apples We are in full planting swing with carrots, beets, more spinach and peas are all in the ground. Hoping our early corn will be...

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April 16, Week 10 CSA

So firstly, yesterday was mine and Patricia's 22 nd wedding anniversary...:), Good Friday and the milk truck driver tasted something off in our milk and rejected it, therefore we had to dump 2600 L of milk down the drain. To say the least it was a different kind of...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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