Farm Happenings at Hillcrest Farms
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Farm Happenings at Hillcrest Farms

Farm Happenings for June 22, 2022

Posted on June 19th, 2022
Summer officially begins on Tuesday, June 21, at 5:13 A.M., and our Summer production has already begun! We don't have enough cherry tomatoes to offer the public at large yet, but I am sending some to our institutional customers this week. It seems that every fruiting category from cucumbers to mel1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 15, 2022

Posted on June 13th, 2022
Hello!   As I prepared the emails and menu for the week my computer froze up with no solution, but to let it unwind overnight. Let me move forward and get this published!   This week I am at the Family Fare parking lot in Eaton Rapids on Wednesday at 12:00 noon, and the Allen Street Farme1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 8, 2022

Posted on June 5th, 2022
  We are still transplanting  outside for Summer harvests, as we are still a little behind our normal crop schedule. This will be a very productive week; all the Brassicas are in and we begin to finish the leafy greens within days. We still start the Baby Lettuces and 70 heads of Rom1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 4, 2022

Posted on June 1st, 2022
Alanna has pledged about 8 more hours of valuable assistance before she leaves for her Summer Dream Job. Riley is back seeding our flats in the nursery, and hasn't missed a mojo beat. Three of our former student helpers will graduate from Springport High School next week, and then the followin1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 1, 2022

Posted on May 29th, 2022
Good Morning!   Alanna has pledged about 8 more hours of valuable assistance before she leaves for her Summer Dream Job. Riley is back seeding our flats in the nursery, and hasn't missed a mojo beat. Three of our former student helpers will graduate from Springport High School next week,1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 28, 2022

Posted on May 25th, 2022
The new Beehives arrived last week and the Bees were upset and not happy. The workers sent out "scouts", and spent about 3 hours buzzing me and checking me out. I passed the test and outlasted them, but they successfully chased my wife back into the house for the rest of the day!   T1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 25, 2022

Posted on May 22nd, 2022
The new Beehives arrived last week and the Bees were upset and not happy. The workers sent out "scouts", and spent about 3 hours buzzing me and checking me out. I passed the test and outlasted them, but they successfully chased my wife back into the house for the rest of the day!   T1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 14, 2022

Posted on May 11th, 2022
We'll take a few hours off for Mother's Day, and use part of this beautiful Spring weather to prepare for the week's markets and Distributions. (Happy Mother's Day!)   The Summer CSA Distributions begin this week and Both Allen Street Farmers Market is outdoors and the Market on the Grand is o1 read more »

Farm Happenings for April 20, 2022

Posted on April 17th, 2022
This is the last week for our Spring CSA distribution, and from the  current menu, we are already moving into some warmer weather additions! Auto- Renew for the convenience of current subscribers is on Friday, April 22. If you don't want  to renew, go to your personal page and t1 read more »