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Farm Happenings at DragSmith Farms
Farm Share for September 7-8, 2022
Happy Labor Day weekend. Hopefully you are able to enjoy the holiday with family and friends. We are farmers and don't get the luxury of a day off. There should be a method to give farmers a break too. A work force that just goes around to relieve farmers, doesn't cost them1 read more »
Farm Share for August 31- Sept. 1, 2022
Greetings to all of you, your family and friends. Hope this day finds you in good health and spirits.
Our farm news is all about the weather...what's new? it seems we have entered into a rare August monsoon period. The trend of global weather extremes are evident once1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 24, 2022
Happy sunny Sunday. Looks like a great day to be enjoying something outside....beside mowing lawn. Guess we should be excited over the privilege of mowing lawn. It means that we received enough rain so it could grow instead of looking like a brown dead mess.
The photo this week is1 read more »
Farm Share for August 17-18, 2022
Sorry I am getting this out a bit later today. We had visitors. This week we had at least 8 Harvest Host campers and a former exchange student from Japan. We have kept in touch with Asako for the last 25 years. Watched her grow up, met her parents, get married, have 2 sons a1 read more »
Farm Share for August 10-11, 2022
Greetings. The summer days are progressing. August is the get ready for school month and sweet corn month. Our sweet corn is about waist high. It looks healthy but continues to wait for a decent rain. Today watching the radar was interesting. As soon as the rain1 read more »
Farm Share for August 3-4, 2022
Happy summer day. It looks like we are in for a hot and humid week. Today we hope to transplant the last crops of broccoli, broccolini and cauliflower. The first crops of broccoli, broccolini and green beans are coming along. They are growing very, very slowly. The lac1 read more »
Farm Share for July 27-28, 2022
Happy sunny and perfect summer day to you all. We feel lucky to be "up north" today with so many worldly temperatures triple digit. It was an interesting weather week. Witnessed a morning western sky rainbow. Usually, when you think about it rainbows occur in the eastern sky. 1 read more »
Farm Share for July 20-21, 2022
It seems a hot sticky August like week is ahead of us. We have good news and bad news. Last week we received 3.25" of rain is the good news of sorts. The rain came down in less than an hour, so most of the it ran off. As you can see by the photo, Greenhouse 4 took a hit.&nbs1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 13-14, 2022
The pollinators are working hard this summer. Driving through the fields in the 6 wheeler the smell of blooming white clover is almost overpowering on a hot summer day. The bees are happy. We have clover planted between all our one acre plots of vegetables. The milkweed plan1 read more »
About the farm
DragSmith Farms is a 104-acre Certified Organic Produce Farm located just north of Barron, WI along the pristine Yellow River. About 34 years ago Maurice and Gail bought the farm that has been in Gail's family 120 years. DragSmith comes from a blending of Gail's maiden name, Dragseth, and our shared last name, Smith. We did this to signify the new and old and to create a bit of mystery.
We grow approximately 30 acres of produce that we market along with honey maple syrup and other products from neighboring farms. We sell to some of the finest restaurants and food co-ops in Minnesota and Wisconsin. As a certified organic grower, we utilize all of the regulations required for organic certification and in fact go the extra mile to preserve our farm and our environment.
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We grow approximately 30 acres of produce that we market along with honey maple syrup and other products from neighboring farms. We sell to some of the finest restaurants and food co-ops in Minnesota and Wisconsin. As a certified organic grower, we utilize all of the regulations required for organic certification and in fact go the extra mile to preserve our farm and our environment.