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Farm Happenings at Featherstone Farm
Savoring Summer on the Farm!
For six or seven seasons now I have been writing to you giving small updates of life on the farm. I once had farming explained to me as less of a pure circular rotation, and more of a corkscrew, meaning that in every rotation you find yourself in a similar, but assuredly different place.
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Sweet Corn Season is On!
As a member of our farm, you get the first taste of our very best. First cucumbers of the season, first zucchini, peppers and, yes, the first sweet corn! The first July sweet corn is exceptionally hard to grow, as the European corn borer and corn earworms are most pesky this time of yea1 read more »
Hello July Harvest!
July is an extremely busy season, with many of our spring farm jobs, like seeding and planting, overlapping with our weeding and cultivating of plants already out in the fields. Of course, harvest is in full swing, too, and with the cold, wetter than average spring behind us, we're excited to1 read more »
A Week in the Life of Your CSA Farm Share
Thursday it all begins. Nathan, our operations manager and crop allocater, scouts the crops and walks the fields, assessing what is ready for harvest and, with more difficulty, how much yield is going to come off a bed of carrots or a field of cabbage. On Friday, based on what is1 read more »
About the farm
Founded in 1994, Featherstone Farm is a 250 acre certified organic farm located in the bluff country of Rushford, Minnesota. Our farm produces a diverse variety of high quality fresh market fruits and vegetables for distribution to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members as well as to local co-ops, restaurants and wholesalers around the region. We offer summer and winter CSA shares and deliver from June to March.
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