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Farm Happenings at Jade Family Farm
Happy 4th of July!
Happy Fourth of July everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating this great country of ours. I only have one little vegetable related matter to share with you. It is about cucumbers. In addition to green cucumbers, we grow a variety called "mini white", which l1 read more »
How to Store Lettuce
Pictured is my cousin Rebecca holding three bunches of onions and a head of cabbage. The white onions are"pearl drop" and probably my favorite onion ever-- tender, sweet and mild, yet flavorful. The lavender ones are "mini purplette" and are also very delicious, only a bit stronger and1 read more »
A sight seldom seen
A sight all too seldom seen, even on family farms-- a mother hen tending to her brood of chicks. I don't raise chickens commercially, or sell eggs-- I have enough things to lose money at already even without chickens to help-- but I do enjoy a few eggs now and then. Or, in this case, wh1 read more »
Euclidean Geometry
When I was a lad in high school, they made me take geometry class. In it we learned that a "line" is an imaginary shape with no width and no beginning and no end, which I could never really wrap my mind around. Perhaps that explains my string of B minuses and C's. Anyways, after m1 read more »
Is this a strawberry which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
Hello again! Strawberries are ripe and looking (and tasting) good, although we can only hope we don't get too much rain or other nasty strawberry weather today (Sunday). Picking strawberries is a slow endeavor, and frankly not my favorite, but luckily they start to ripen just when summe1 read more »
About the farm
Jade Family Farm is a certified organic farm at the foot of the Tuscarora
Mountain in Juniata county, Pennsylvania. We grow a wide range of vegetables and
fruitson about 10 acres, with the balance of the 120 acre farm in pasture, hayfields, ad
woodlands. We sell our produce chiefly through a Community supported Agriculture
program serving the State College and Harrisburg areas, as well as several area farmers'
markets. We are a rue family farm, with three generations and several branches of the
family directly involved in day to day operations.
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Mountain in Juniata county, Pennsylvania. We grow a wide range of vegetables and
fruitson about 10 acres, with the balance of the 120 acre farm in pasture, hayfields, ad
woodlands. We sell our produce chiefly through a Community supported Agriculture
program serving the State College and Harrisburg areas, as well as several area farmers'
markets. We are a rue family farm, with three generations and several branches of the
family directly involved in day to day operations.