THIS WEEK: Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 24 is the last open Farmstand day! (2-5:30PM) Even though this is the last Farm News for the season, this is not a goodbye note! We will continue to get you fresh produce through the end of the year (details below). Today we recognize the wind down of our farmstand…
Hours this Week! The Farmstand is open today and Thursday from 2 – 5:30 PM, and Saturday from 9 AM – 1 PM NEXT WEEK: Tuesday, November 24 is the last open Farmstand day! (2-5:30PM) Last week the crew successfully put 20,000 cloves of garlic to bed for a long slumber, before its season of…
Hours this Week! The Farmstand is open today and Thursday from 2 – 5:30 PM, and Saturday from 9 AM – 1 PM This week’s Farm News is written by Field Manager Lauren Henderson: Has it only been a week? The election loomed large over last week and with divided attention we slogged through our…
New Hours this Week! The Farmstand is open today and Thursday from 2 – 5:30 PM, and Saturday from 9 AM – 1 PM Last week started pleasantly enough. The warm October ‘heat wave’ continued, and we began planting garlic. By Tuesday it was clear a big change was looming. Temperatures were projected to plunge into the…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:00 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 until dark) This week’s Farm News is from field manager Lauren Henderson. Here are her thoughts about the growing season: This time of the year on the farm is special. It is a magical moment when all the winter vegetable favorites have…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:00 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 until dark) This Week’s Farm News: While fall in Connecticut is famous for the red and yellow foliage in the trees, my favorite color this time of year is the beautiful green that our cover crops show as they reach their fall…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: Last week brought us more abundant sunshine, and some great weather to bring in the harvest. The fall greens harvest continues to be a good one, with plenty of kale, collard, chard, spinach, radishes, and salad turnips. The…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: After last week’s much needed rain, cool, clear air swept down from Canada, and the leaves responded with a noticeable tinge of yellow (and to be honest, a lot of drought induced “brown.” Just par for the…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: One challenge in writing the farm news is I’m never sure whether to focus on what happened last week or what’s likely to happen this week. A lot of it has to do the weather. Last week the…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: Last week was a bit of a whirlwind for us here at the farm. One minute we’ve got our heads down in the sweet potato patch watching a bumper crop dump over the digger chain; pulling up…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: It’s always a shock to me: one day you are picking zucchini on a hot, humid afternoon, and a week later the air is cool and crisp, and those summer squash plants are done for the season. We…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7 PM) This Week’s Farm News: The late summer harvest blur has arrived! Everywhere we look there are crops we need to pick, dig, or cut. Harvest season seems to begin in earnest this time of year. We’ve got the winter…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: The end of August has brought some cool temps, and along with a couple shots of rain, the farm feels like a different place. Though hints of fall are in the air, we are still in the…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: The farm news is going to take a slight turn this week. It normally would have been me whining about the drought and the heat, and the fact that we irrigated our way to another (so far…)…
The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: The harvest season continues to roll on into late summer. Despite what I think we can now safely call a drought (less than 2 inches of rain since June), a tropical storm, and hot temperatures, we’ve got…