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Farm Happenings at Hawkins Family Farm
Farm Happenings for October 29, 2022
This week we delivered 900 pounds of Napa cabbage to our friends at True Kimchi Cafe in Fort Wayne. Sam and her team received the first 450 pounds on Tuesday morning and got right to work processing the cabbage into kimchi. By Wednesday, when we dropped off the rest of the week's delivery, they alr1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 22, 2022
Farmer Jeff here with an update on our tree-planting project. Lately, as weather has permitted, I have been finishing the soil work on nearly 17 acres of ground that encircles the farm in order to plant a cover crop of clover and oats. The reason for this is to prepare the soil for the planting of1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 15, 2022
Meet Nathan Fingerle of RiverRidge Farm near Roann, Indiana! He has been farming since 2008 and we are thrilled to partner with him for our CSA this year. You know all those amazing slicer tomatoes you’ve been eating this summer? Well, Nathan is the one who grew them! He also supplies our far1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 8, 2022
Last night we hosted our first CSA member potluck picnic. It was a blast! Though the weather turned chilly, we had around 30 people out to the farm to enjoy dinner around the campfire. The pizza crew cooked brick oven chicken for the group and we had quite the spread of other dishes: pumpkin and sa1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 1, 2022
We started harvesting our fall crop of Napa cabbage this week. This is a big project, as we estimate we’ll have roughly 3,000 lbs or more of cabbage in the cooler once all is said and done. Each head weighs in around 3-5 lbs--for those doing the math, that is roughly 1,000 heads of cabbage th1 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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