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Farm Happenings at Bayfield Foods
6.18.21 Farm Happenings
Happy Friday! We're almost there: the longest day of the year is coming right up on June 21. After the 21st, we will have wrapped up most of our planting and can focus on cultivating and harvesting here at Great Oak Farm. The only big planting we have left is our winter storage ca1 read more »
6.11.21 Farm Happenings
Whew, what a cooker of a week! It was about 90 degrees here every day this week. On the farm, that heat means the end of spinach - last week was the final spinach harvest from our farm until later this fall when we begin to harvest late summer planted beds of spinach. See you in a1 read more »
6.4.21 Farm Happenings
Welcome to week 2 of the Bayfield Foods summer CSA season!
Last week when I wrote to you, we were doubling down on freeze protection here at the farm - row covering our tender beans and winter squash, and running portable heaters in our hoophouses at night to keep cold sensitive tomatoe1 read more »
May 28 Farm Happening
Welcome to the first official summer CSA delivery of 2021! Thank you to everyone returning from last year and welcome to all our new members! We hope you enjoy what we have to offer this season.
This year we welcomed four new producers to our cooperative: Boda Bayfield, our newest1 read more »
May 21 Farm Happenings
With all of the the warm sunshine and the gentle rain, we've got lots of good news to share this week! The crops are growing well out there.
Every year, no matter how long we've been farming, the miracle of seeds germinating never ceases to amaze me. It has been SO incredibly dry (until1 read more »
5.13.21 Farm Happenings
Here at Great Oak Farm, it's been a roller coaster ride of a week! The dry weather (no mud - we're at about 5% of our "normal" amount of precipitation for this spring so far...) has made for some easy field/tractor work days. We've been working up fields left and right, getting the firs1 read more »
May 5 Farm Happening
Happy Mother's Day weekend to all of you moms out there!
Here on the farm, we're all ready for the cold nights coming this weekend. We've been putting row covers on our tender hoophouse tomato, cucumber, pepper, and basil plants for a while now, but with the temps forecasted to ho1 read more »
April 30 Farm Happenings
Greetings from your farmers at Great Oak Farm! It's been another productive week, but I tell you I am officially ready for a break from this 35 degrees and raining weather... uffda. Looking forward to this Saturday to give us a little taste of summer sunshine.
Before we get into w1 read more »
April 23 Farm Happenings
Wow, it's hard to believe it's already been a week since the last farm happenings! It feels like time is speeding up now that spring is arriving. Buckle up, cause ready or not, here we go.
After harvesting spinach for this week's delivery, we began the tedious process of tearing out al1 read more »
About the farm
The Bayfield Regional Food Producers Cooperative (Bayfield Foods) was formed in June of 2010 by farmers and food producers in the Chequamegon Bay region of northern Wisconsin. Our mission is to provide customers with high quality, nutritious, and sustainably-grown foods produced in Ashland and Bayfield Counties in Wisconsin.
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