Our little valley is always so beautiful with the first snow of the season! We have been blessed this fall with an extended growing season due to the warmest fall we have had in our farming career! It seems that our crops continue to grow which is AWESOME because our customers just keep buying and […]
More than 6,400 Farmers, Cooks, Food Preservers, Food Activists and Educators were represented from 161 different countries for an incredible Slow Food experience. So how do we all communicate with each other? Just like it is done at the UN with headphones dialed to a language and a translator assigned in translating from spoken languages of […]
We are trying to move towards a “Closed Loop” farming system where we are not purchasing organic manures and fertilizers so that our farming system is a little “greener” and we have better control over the quality of our inputs. We have done pastured poultry in the past and are once again raising a crop […]
Our fall CSA boxes are looking very GREEN and delicious (we think). We on the farm have been eating Kale and Collards every day and are so enjoying it! We are missing tatsoi and unlimited napa cabbage as we are normally harvesting plenty of that this time of the year but we lost one succession […]
It is always important that our farm “family” is able to get along for the entire season. We are together SO MUCH. We work together all day long, not to mention we have a big “Farm Lunch” together meaning we don’t even get a break from each other during lunch, so I have to say […]
I love this time of the season when we are mowing down spent crops, pulling up black plastic and disking the soil in preparation for cover crops. The farm looks so neat when we can no longer see a field of weeds that took over our spent crops. We had BIG plans for seeding buckwheat […]
About a month ago, a few folks here in my little community of Spring Creek, were selected as a “Food Cluster” to represent Slow Food at the Terre Madre event in Turin Italy. Being a small farmer, there is not much money earned annually to fund a trip abroad, so our little cluster of farms […]
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The past couple weeks have been spent harvesting winter squash. Many of the plants just up and died due to the high humidity and rain. Our squash probably died of powdery mildew. Although we haven’t had much rain, only a few sporadic showers totaling 1/200 of an inch which is enough to increase our humidity […]