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Farm Happenings at Jade Family Farm
Now is the Time!
Now is the time! For what, you may ask? Time to try okra if you are not already familiar with it, or to try it again if you're still unconvinced as to its merits. Okra is wildly popular all over West Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Brazil, the Eastern Mediterranean and p1 read more »
not your aarage scallion!
Hello! Pictured above is what we are offering for green onions this week. I have placed next to them my grandfather's antique measuring stick, so you get an idea just how large and lush these are. It is our first foray into Japanese style-- so called "negi" green onions-- but assu1 read more »
orchid envy
Hello! Last winter I read a seed catalogue description of a new (to me) beet variety called "three root grex" which sounded to enticing I decided to try it. "Grex", so I am told, is a term used in orchid breeding and rarely if ever applied to vegetables. but in this case it signif1 read more »
feelin' goosey
Hi everyone,
Super short and quick message this week as want to go out and harvest lettuce before it gets to be super hot. We have a few gooseberries this week-- not the crop we dream about but not bad considering the youth of many of the plants and a good piece better than last y1 read more »
safety first!
Good morning!
The above picture is of Evelyn securely nestled in the tractor bucket picking cherries too high to reach by normal means, from a big old cherry tree a furlong or so from our farmhouse. Here is my father standing by the trunk:
Dad turned 81 in February and likes any creature olde1 read more »
Aahh, blessed rain!
Hi everyone!
I'm still having horrible wifi problems, so the above picture of the peas is from last year, and, once again, all the farm pictures from last week will have to wait. Peas are new this week. We grow the "snap" variety, which is an edible podded type. Snap o1 read more »
Brood X
Hello!
I'm having some grave issues with my wifi, and so am unable to transfer all the lovely farm photos I took this week to this here newsletter. Alas! The images of beautiful butterflies, first zucchini fruit of the season and the patch of giant thistles in the midst of t1 read more »
dark but not gloomy
I can't quite understand why the dark gray sky, persistent drizzle and high temps in the low fifties on Memorial Day weekend is found "gloomy". Does not the dullness of the sky set off the verdant tree leaves all the more emphatically? Do not the birds sing all the louder, and more swee1 read more »
Almost nothing about rabbits
Well, here we are-- week one of twenty- two exciting weeks of adventures in produce. For all that people decry modern times, it is nothing short of a golden era for vegetables, with species and varieties once available only in far off lands being grown right here. And then there's the r1 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.