CSA Newsletter for January 2024 Hi everyone!  Happy new year!  It's definitely winter out there now!  As I write this, the snow continues to come down, and the farm is mostly asleep.  This time of year, we don't have any of the planting, harvesting, washing, packing, delivering, weeding, and managing that we are doing during the main farm season.  Now we are occupied with a very different type of work, and truth be told, there's just a lot less to do this time of year at the farm.   Right now I am in the middle of the annual frenzy of tax stuff an ..read more

  CSA Newsletter for December 2023 Hi everyone!  I hope you are all having a lovely holiday season!  Things have slowed down for us significantly at the farm, to the point where I'm barely out there at all, and Fred is generally out there for about six hours most days of the week.  It's a big change from the height of CSA season, and it's definitely a welcome rest.  We're still harvesting a few things for the GreenTree Co-op in Mt. Pleasant and the Argus Farm Stop stores in Ann Arbor, as well as the occasional restaurant order, but harvesting and delivering veg ..read more

 Farm Update The field is looking pretty bare!  These beds were full of squash vines up until recently, but the squash harvest is done and the plants have been tilled under  so the soil can rest for the winter. Hi everyone!  Welcome to the last week of the CSA!  It is going to get a lot colder this week, which will make harvesting the veggies very challenging, especially with the leafy greens.  We are expecting freezing temperatures most nights this week, and while the leafy greens can often withstand some light freezing and thaw out just fine when the ..read more

Farm Update We have a really nice planting of spring mix, and we're hoping it continues to look good despite the likelihood of a hard frost in the next few days. We've been covering it with protective plastic overnight to help shield it from the cold nighttime temperatures. Hi everyone!  It definitely feels like fall out there!  We've had a few light frosts at the farm, and we expect the first hard frost sometime in the next few days.  The first hard frost is the beginning of the end of the farm season.  We have some very nice looking greens in the field, so ..read more

 Farm Update Here are all the veggies unloaded from the truck and ready to start getting set up on the tables for  our Mt. Pleasant CSA drop-off on Tuesday. Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well!  The weather has definitely shifted at the farm, and we are fully into fall now.  The colder, wetter weather and the fact that it stays dark at lot longer into the morning have definitely made working out there a lot harder.  Fortunately, we are almost done with all of our large harvests; we finished harvesting the rest of our squashes this week, and we are alm ..read more

Farm Update Hi everyone! The farm is beginning to slowly wind down to the end of the season, and signs of fall are everywhere.  The colder weather will settle in this week in earnest, and we will likely see the first frost some night this week.  Once that happens, our summer crops have a hard time swinging back from the shock they receive, and the season ends rather abruptly on any summer crops still out in the fields.  The ones in the coldframes will be protected, so we will still be able to harvest some summer veggies like peppers, but it is time to bid the tomatoes farewel ..read more

 Farm Update Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well and enjoying this lovely fall day!  As I write this, I am sitting at my deck table with a cup of coffee, trying to squeeze every last bit of nice weather out of this year.  Things at the farm are starting to get quieter and easier to manage.  While we are still weeding a little bit, the weeds grow a lot more slowly and are generally better-behaved than they were two months ago, when they were trying to swallow up the whole farm.  We're still bringing in the major harvests of what would generally be considered storage ..read more

Farm Update Hi everyone! Happy fall!  It is officially autumn as of today, and the farm definitely reflects that right now!  We are very much in the middle of the harvest season, and while we finished bringing in all of our potatoes a few weeks ago, we are still working on bringing in the squash and onion harvest in the pockets of time when we're not harvesting, washing, packing, and delivering veggies for the deliveries and CSA drop-offs.  Fortunately, we've been delivering a lot of squash, and we've been sending it out the door almost as fast as we can harvest it.  T ..read more

Farm Update Hi everyone!  While we have a week before the calendar officially announces the fall season, all of the signs are pointing toward autumn at the farm!  We have a busy harvest week ahead of us continuing to bring in onions and squash, and quite a few of them are headed out on our delivery vehicle as soon as they come in from the fields and get cleaned up.  'Tis the season for fall veggies!  It's just as well that we don't have to store as many of our squashes, onions, and potatoes for long, because we're already pushing the limits of what our small space can ..read more

 Farm Update Hi everyone!  Things continue to be busy at the farm as we bring in the large fall harvests!  We are still bringing in all of the onions we planted back in the spring, and which are now ready to come out of the ground and be cured for winter storage, and we are starting to harvest the first of our winter squashes.  In fact, we'll have the first delicata squash, butternut squash, and spaghetti squash in the shares this week!  Fred and I cooked up one of each of them this week to make sure they were nice and ripe, and they were fabulous!  The seaso ..read more