Farm Happenings at Cedar Crate Farm
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Farm Happenings at Cedar Crate Farm

Landscape Fabric: What, Why and How?

Posted on September 30th, 2024
Landscape fabric is an essential tool on our farm. We use it on multiple, important crops and in the past few weeks we've been prepping new runs of landscape fabric for this season and seasons to come. This weeks farm update, while seemingly a bit mundane, will go into all things landscape fabric.1 read more »

Storage Vegetables Explained

Posted on September 23rd, 2024
We talk a lot about storage vegetables this time of year especially considering they are one of the main components of our Winter CSA Shares. Some storage vegetables we commonly grow are beets, carrots, potatoes, garlic, winter squash, cabbage, kohlrabi & onions. We thought we'd take some time1 read more »

Garlic Bed Prep Starts Now!

Posted on September 16th, 2024
Did you know that Minnesota garlic is planted in the fall? Yep! We plant garlic in mid to late October because it allows the garlic to get established quicker in the spring and results in larger, better garlic bulbs. Garlic is routinely one of the first crops to pop up in the spring and we love see1 read more »

Fall spinach on the way!

Posted on September 9th, 2024
Despite a small blunder our fall spinach is well underway. We planted this spinach about 2 weeks ago and we're pretty happy with the stand we have. "Stand" is an unscientific term that essentially means the number of actual plants in a row/bed/field. Having a good stand means you have the right amo1 read more »

Fall on the farm & planning for winter

Posted on September 2nd, 2024
Fall is probably my favorite season on the farm. I love the crisp, cool mornings, and the comfortable warmth of the afternoon. I also love the confluence of both summer, spring and winter vegetables. Spinach, radish, tomatoes, bell peppers and more all ready at once! Fall also marks the end of our1 read more »