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Farm Happenings at Hawkins Family Farm
Thanksgiving turkeys now available for pre-order
Pre-order your Thanksgiving turkey by going to https://www.hawkinsfamilyfarm.com/thanksgiving-turkeys! We are offering fewer birds this year, all fresh (not frozen) for pick up on Sunday, November 24, 1-4pm at Hawkins Family Farm, so you will want to get your order in sooner rather than l1 read more »
Farm Tour for Local Food Week!
Who wants to go on a farm tour? Mark your calendars for Friday, August 2! As part of the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network's 5th Annual Local Food Week, we will be offering a walking farm tour during our weekly Fridays on the Farm pizza night. Pizzas are served 5-7pm and the tour will begin at 61 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 8, 2024
At this time of year, our weeks begin to move to the rhythm of the harvest schedule as a colorful parade of produce marches in from the garden. There's the steady beat of season-long staples like gem lettuce, mixed lettuce, beets, and carrots. The flourishes of fleeting seasonal favorites like garl1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 1, 2024
It's here! We are so excited to resume weekly farm share deliveries. We've spent the past weeks preparing the farm as much as possible for the summer season before our days become devoted to harvesting, packing, and delivering farm shares. We've been cleaning up work spaces and tuning up machinery,1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 11, 2024
It's that time of year when the to-do list is growing as quickly and as unruly as the grass (and weeds) in the un-mowed and un-grazed corners of the farm. One big project we checked off the list, though, was planting roughly 3600 potato seed pieces, our largest planting to date.
For the past1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 13, 2024
Signs of spring are popping up all over the farm: accelerated plant growth, meadowlark and red-winged blackbird song, the first flush of dandelion blooms, and a newborn calf gamboling behind his mother in the pasture. Another sure sign--our days are getting busier and busier! In fact, I need to kee1 read more »
Farm Happenings for February 15, 2024
My dad and I spent most of the day working outside yesterday as the temperature climbed to 64 degrees—on February 9! We’ve been making use of the unseasonably warm weather to continue working on the construction of eight hoop houses. It’s remarkable how much more we can accomplish1 read more »
Farm Happenings for January 18, 2024
Winter weather has arrived on the farm! We've been busy preparing for snow, ice, wind, and single digit temperatures. This means moving the laying hens from the pasture to their winter quarters in the barn, out of the wind, where they enjoy scratching in a deep bedding of wood chips. The pigs, also1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 22, 2023
We’re winding down!
It’s the last week of the weekly CSA shares! Although we will be shaking things up with a new monthly farm share offering (details coming soon), the farm is still gradually shutting down as scheduled. Cold conditions are creeping in! The natural product of a la1 read more »
About the farm
Hawkins Family Farm is a fourth-generation farm in Wabash County, Indiana. We raise grains, livestock, and vegetables in rotation, using the health and wholeness of soils, waters, plants, animals, and people as our standard—whole farm agriculture at the confluence of nature and culture.
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