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…

The Farmstand is open today from 2 – 6:30 PM (PYO Hours: 1:30 – 7) This Week’s Farm News: Last week was all about just one thing:  Storm Isaias.  We weren’t sure what to make of this storm.  Would we get a few passing showers?  Would we get walloped by high winds and heavy rain?  We opted to play it…

PLEASE NOTE: The Farmstand is CLOSED TODAY! We have decided that the risk to customers and farm crew is too great, given the forecast and the fact that the barn cannot be used as shelter due to COVID protocols.  We look forward to seeing you Thursday! This Week’s Farm News: As I write this it looks…

The Farmstand is open today! 2- 6:30 PM; PYO from 1:30 – 7PM Most of the work we need to do in July and August are tasks you would expect on a veggie farm in mid-to late- summer:  weeding, watering, picking, packing.  Surprisingly, planting is also a big part of what we do.  Many of our crops need…

Hard to believe we turned the corner towards August.  All the summer favorites are coming in and by and large crops are growing well.  We’ve had a few timely rains to buffer some intense afternoon heat.   Now that the garlic is in, the days have a more settled routine.  We harvest the heat sensitive crops like lettuce, arugula,…

In mid-July, each week is a bit of a blur.  Irrigation took a back seat for another week as storms seemed to roll in every other day or so.  While that made it tricky to find some dry days to harvest, we did manage to pull in about 80% of the 18,000 garlic bulbs we planted and…

After last week’s soaking rain brought an end to an essentially rain-less June, we found ourselves in the opposite situation.  Almost daily showers and thunderstorms made it difficult for us to prepare new beds for planting, add fertilizer, and cultivate.  Luckily weather forecasting has improved a great deal over the past few decades and we had a…

What a difference one half inch of rain can make.  If I was writing this just a few days ago, I would bemoan the hot, dry, rain-less weather we had for over a month.  June is arguably the busiest month of the year for us, as planting and weeding tasks peak, the harvest ramps up, and we…

It’s hard to believe the summer solstice has come and gone.  It’s good we have a lot of daylight, because we’ve got a whole lot of projects going on.  After the coldest May I can remember, we had approximately one week of “pleasant” weather, and now it has turned seriously hot and dry.  Planting can be tricky in…