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Farm Happenings at Mad Radish Farm
Summer's Here and Tomatoes are Coming...
The tomato plants are looking great in the hoophouse and the field, we're waiting on the first fruits to start ripening. We're excited about digging the first potatoes of the season this coming week! The first variety up is Red Norland, which has a beautiful red-pink skin and white flesh. They're p1 read more »
Post-Solstice Farm News
Now that the solstice is behind us, plants will begin to change their energy focus from leaves/stems/flowers to FRUIT! So that means that tomatoes, peppers and eggplants won't be long. The first Sungold (orange, super sweet) cherry tomatoes are beginning to ripen, and the Fairytale (miniature purpl1 read more »
Shell Peas? Yay or Nay?
Happy Summer Solstice!!
So, shelling peas...we planted them this year, but I didn't pick them because of the labor factor. We typically offer them as a u-pick crop for members but there weren't quite enough to make it worth it. When I was at market last weekend in Dillsburg a woman came up asking i1 read more »
Summer Share Week 1!
We've made it to Week ONE of the Summer Share! A very warm welcome to our Summer Members!!
It hardly seems like 7 weeks of spring veggies have already passed, and summer is now beginning. We're harvesting more and more delicious veg out of the fields now and it's going to keep getting better as the1 read more »
Garlic Scapes, Onion Weeding Party and Shiitake!
This week we're gearing up for another bout of hot weather, which we expect to become a lot more frequent now that we're in the month of June. Garlic scapes are on the brink of harvest right now, so you'll see these on the share list this week. if you don't get them in your box and you'd like them,1 read more »
Broccoli is in, Peas are on their way!
The last farm note was talking about how dry the field was, and now we're getting another good rain, expected to last most of the weekend. I'm grateful for it, as we do need a bit more. We've been battling pests big and small in the field over this week...many of the beans that we had just seeded w1 read more »
Potato, Poe-tah-toe; Tomato, Toe-mah-toe
Last week we hilled and mulched the potatoes - all 3600 feet of them - and I snapped this photo at the beginning of the week. I like to take pictures of the rows periodically to track their growth. It is hard to tell that the plants are growing sometimes when you look at them each day. Tomatoes wen1 read more »
Summer crops going to the field this week!
Despite cool May temperatures, we're going full speed ahead with summer crop planting this weekend and into the coming week. The field tomatoes spent their first night outside last night. I was definitely a bit uneasy, as tomatoes aren't too keen to go below 45 degrees for very long. But the foreca1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 11, 2021
On the farm this week...
This is always a challenging time of year because it seems that everything needs to be planted, and everything also needs to be weeded. So, we've been chipping away at what feels like an endless to do list, but we're getting there! There's still *one* bed of onions left to1 read more »
About the farm
Mad Radish is a small diversified farm in Dover PA. We raise organically-grown produce for our CSA, markets and farm store. Our mission is to grow nutritious food for our community while managing the land for soil health, plant vitality, and species diversity. To support this mission, we also raise pastured eggs and chicken. We plan to expand to lamb and beef in coming years.
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