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Farm Happenings at Adkins Produce
Farm Happenings for July 29, 2020
There’s nothing quite like sinking your teeth into a beautifully ripe slice of watermelon and savoring that textbook bite of summer. There’s also nothing quite like cutting open the same watermelon and finding that it’s pale, and hard, and decidedly unready to eat. When we walk th1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 22, 2020
Here we are at Week 8 already. We are half way through the Spring/Summer season! Summer weather has arrived with a bang. The season of leafy vegetables is coming to a close, and we are coming into the all-fruits season!
The weather has been unforgiving. We try to find the parts of the day whe1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 15, 2020
Summer heat is here and we are getting a lot of comments along the lines of "how do you guys work in this" ? But honestly, once you do it for a couple days your body really does get used to it. It certainly helps that our house is air conditioned! But it is really good for our heat lovi1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 8, 2020
Early summer. At this point in the season we are mostly focused on weeds and pest control, but hovering on the edge of peak season. The leafy food has come in with abundance, but the fruiting plants, those ones that make your bag nice and heavy, are still up and coming--showing their promise b1 read more »
About the farm
Our farm has been in operation for more than 100 years. In the beginning the sole focus was grain farming and livestock. Over the years the scope of the operation transitioned to add produce. Since 2012 we have focused primarily on produce and plan to expand the operation to include year-round-growing through the use of high tunnel greenhouses in the near future.
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