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Farm Happenings at Hawkins Family Farm
Farm Happenings for September 7, 2023
Holy moly, is it really September?
This week Hawkins Farm offered a regular old sneak peek preview into the CSA fall special: “Layers” (only on Max). The chilly conditions were yet another example of Indiana’s famous temperature dips, but the coming September had me imagining my f1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 31, 2023
Listen, the farm don’t stop!
This week on Hawkins Farm, we got whacked with heat! Whew! Do a spit take for me if you’re reading this, because that’s how it felt, but like, in slow motion. I don’t know about you, but my body doesn’t just go, “it’s hot, I sho1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 24, 2023
Well geez, where has all the time gone?
Nearing the halfway point of the CSA "main season," we were once again met with some strange, chilly August weather. On a week that should have caused much sweating and water bottle chugging, I was forced to pull on my trusty grey sweater, wrapping up in a la1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 17, 2023
Let’s talk about growin’!
Continuing on with the cool, quiet morning trend this week, the weather took toward the dreary and the drizzly. After all the rain that went down over the weekend, Monday still greeted us with more showers. Farmer Zach always does his best to throw us a couple1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 10, 2023
It’s quiet… Too quiet…
This week on Hawkins farm, the weather took a side swing, offering us some far chillier mornings than we had been used to the last couple of weeks (it has been hot!!). The mornings have been cool and quiet over here, where much of the sound that could1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 3, 2023
“Somebody take a picture!”
*click*
It was a good time for a photo. All the conditions were just right for it: Soft, foggy-day lighting with the blooming buckwheat bursting in the background. A bed of red and green lettuce heads just out of the frame's reach, ready to be harvested into t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 27, 2023
Let me call you sweetheart (cabbage),
Love was in the air at Hawkins Farm this week. Like, the real kind of love, the one that’s hard but worth it, where the last leg of July is nearing and we’re only half way through the farm season. There is much to do, our bodies are tired, the harve1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 20, 2023
We are cropping out!
This week on Hawkins Farm continued the motion of felt summer, with some long, hot summer days out in the field spent in harvest mode. Harvesting to its most organized, yet fairly intense extent: The crop out.
When we crop out, it means that we clear out what’s left1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 13, 2023
Summer hit!
There’s a lot to do, and not enough time to do it. We are hurrying around, we are short on hands, and it is hot hot hot! Summer is here!
Let me sum up my experience on a farm thus far: anything unexpected could happen, so we just keep moving forward. It’s Murphy's Law, folks1 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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