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D&V Organics CSA Week 13
D&V Organics Week 13 CSA
We hope everyone fared okay with all the crazy weather last week. As mentioned in last week's newsletter, we would prefer no rain, because with rain comes certain difficulties on the farm in terms of managing erosion and plant diseases. The tropical storm th1 read more »
D&V Organics CSA Week 12
D&V Organics CSA Week 12
This week looks like all of us will be bracing for some heavy rains due to the incoming hurricane. We worry a bit about excessive rains and the impact it has on our soils and both our young and established vegetable crops. While we like the rain for all of t1 read more »
D&V Organics CSA Week 11
D&V Organics CSA Week 11
Our fields go through a transition as we make our way through July and into August. The middle of the summer is when we start implementing our plan for the big Fall and early Winter harvest seasons. We have a lot of work to do in the next couple weeks with c1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 22, 2020
D&V Organics CSA Week 10
Our push into warm season crops continues this week as we are starting to see the first ripe tomatoes in our second planting. As mentioned a couple weeks ago, the late(r than expected) Spring frost we had in May really messed up our first planting of tomatoes, cau1 read more »
D&V Organics Week 9 CSA
D&V Organics Week 9 CSA
It really starts feeling like summer when we start picking our first melons of the season, and by the end of last week, we had a small harvest of some specialty ananas melons and a decent harvest of some small watermelons. Although the Spring was long and cold1 read more »
D&V Organics CSA Week 8
D&V Organics CSA
Week 8
Last week marked the end of our early season lettuce and greens bounty. With the warm weather we have moving into July, the leafy green produce we grow doesn't hold up well in the hot temperatures and starts to go to flower or show physiological symptoms of heat st1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 1, 2020
D&V Organics CSA
Week 7
It is feeling like we are well into Summer with the warm temperatures over the past couple of weeks, but we are still awaiting the arrival of our first picking of melons, tomatoes, peppers and a few other Summer items. With the cooler Spring temperatures we saw thi1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 24, 2020
D&V Organics CSA
Week 6
Everything is growing fast this time of year on the farm. Most of our days are spent harvesting an incredible diversity of produce for our CSA, wholesale accounts and for the farmer's markets we participate in every week. It is always a logistical struggle to1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 17, 2020
D&V Organics Week 5 CSA
Over the past several years we've been a pretty small crew of 3 to 4 people working like crazy to get all of our work done on the farm, but this year, we continue to increase the number of acres we grow and our crew size and have several new people working on the farm.&n1 read more »