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Farm Happenings at Cedar Crate Farm
Nearly a decade of CSA!
The week we kicked off our 9th season of CSA! Thanks to all of you who have signed up for our CSA over the years and especially those who have returned year after year as our farm has grown. It's kind of hard to believe we've been doing this for almost 10 years now. A quick reminder that if you too1 read more »
Onboarding Staff, Infrastructure, Weeding and Planting
I could start every Farm Happening off with the phrase “It’s been busy on the farm” and this week is no different. We’ve been working on on boarding our new farm crew team for the past month while also attending some very busy Saturday farmers markets. We’ve also been1 read more »
Trialing Microgreens!
Truth be told we would likely not be trialing microgreens if we were still harvesting lettuce but this early winter/late fall proved to be too cold for the lettuce to survive. We are bummed out about this but it also offered an opportunity to try something new with tools and supplies we already had1 read more »
Cleaning Up The Winter Tunnel
The winter tunnel was cut a little short this year due to consistent below average cold the week before Thanksgiving. This is always one of the risks and challenges with winter growing and, more broadly, farming in general. Luckily, we were able to harvest and store some baby cabbages, kohlrabi, an1 read more »
Keeping On In the Winter Tunnel
This is the time of year where things really slow down on the farm both in terms of growing plants but also work needing to be done on the farm. The main bit of farm work we're doing now is our daily tunnel chores which include doing a crop check, removing our frost protection and assessing how lon1 read more »
Season End Projects & Improvements
Our late fall season is filled with projects with everything from pulling up landscape fabric, to cleaning and organizing supplies that we will reuse next season. This week we're working on our caterpillar tunnels.
We've been lucky this fall with quite a few really nice days so that we could make s1 read more »
Garlic Planted!
This past week we were able to get next seasons garlic planted amidst snow flurries and windy, chilly weather. It was the perfect end cap to our 2022 planting season as we are truly done planting for the year now that the garlic is in the ground.
It might surprise you to learn that we plant our gar1 read more »
Winter Tunnel is Looking Good!
We're eagerly anticipating our first ever winter shares here on the farm and we are very pleased with how our winter tunnel looks! Our winter tunnel is full of cold tolerant crops including kohlrabi, broccoli, lettuce, cabbage, arugula & winter greens, radish and spinach. Based on our trials th1 read more »
First Frost of 2022
We've had our first frost of fall 2022 here on the farm this past week. The first frost makes for some big changes on the farm and marks the beginning of the end of the season. Warm weather crops like basil, tomatoes, peppers, & green beans do not survive the frost and are done for the season w1 read more »