Farm Happenings at Bayfield Foods
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Farm Happenings at Bayfield Foods

October 2 Farm Happenings

Posted on October 1st, 2020
For the next 3 weeks - Customization for all shares (Applefest, Veggie, and Meat Boxes) will end at 9:00 AM on Sunday! This is to help our producers and staff enough time to prepare and deliver products for packing on Tuesday morning!! Thank you for your understanding Well, just like that, it's Oct1 read more »

Sept 25 Farm Happening

Posted on September 23rd, 2020
Happy Fall!  As the seasons change, so too will the variety of veggies available in your boxes. This is one of my favorite parts of seasonal eating and farming.  In the end, the weather is what dictates what's for dinner, which keeps our menus interesting over the course of the year. 1 read more »

Sept 18 Farm Happenings

Posted on September 18th, 2020
Wednesday night, we had our first frost. That's earlier than I had predicted with my full moon theory, but about on schedule for what we should expect up here. Then last night, we had our first freeze!  What the heck happened to frosts in September, leading up to the first freeze in October?!&1 read more »

Sept 11 Farm Happenings

Posted on September 9th, 2020
Greetings from all of your Bayfield Foods veggie farmers! I finally got a pic of most of us together while we were packing veggie boxes this past week, before we all hustled back to our farms to keep plugging away. From left to right, there's Monarda (helping at Yoman Farm), Rob (Twisting Twig), Jo1 read more »

Sept 4 Farm Happenings

Posted on September 3rd, 2020
Happy September!  With nights in the 40's and days barely getting above 70 now, fall is truly in the air.    Early plantings of beans, carrots, sweet corn, and more have been mowed and plowed, those fields ready to be seeded with more rye and vetch cover crop seed to overwinter. 1 read more »

August 28 Farm Happening

Posted on August 27th, 2020
Welcome to week 14 of the 22 week summer season! Wow, does time sure fly by.  If you have signed up for a Plus Add-on, this week you will be receiving a jam or jelly from Bayfield Apple Company as well as a bakery good from Starlit Kitchen. This week on the farm, a new record was set.  N1 read more »

August 20 Farm Happenings

Posted on August 20th, 2020
A note for those of you who get the Plus Add-on:  the Plus items this week will be jam from the Bayfield Apple Company, as well as granola from Starlit Kitchen. As the summer winds to a close, the pace has picked up substantially here at the farm.  During the day, we are still basically p1 read more »

8.14.20 Farm Happenings

Posted on August 13th, 2020
This time of year on the farm, we hardly have any time to do anything except harvest.  There's barely any open ground on the farm, as fields are either planted in a cover crop (like this beautiful flowering buckwheat field, just buzzing with pollinators!) or veggies.  We spend the majorit1 read more »

August 7 Farm Happenings

Posted on August 6th, 2020
This time of year, there's hardly much time to get anything else done on the farm except harvesting. All of the early hoophouse crops we planted in the spring continue to bless us with their with bounty, and our field crops have hit cruising altitude. Successive plantings of most of the field crops1 read more »