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Farm Happenings at Mad Radish Farm
Meat Share Updates!
We are going to begin getting some beef from Powers Farm in Townshend DE. Their beef is grass fed, dry aged, and is truly premium local beef! You'll see some prices go up on the beef end because of this, but we believe that it is worth it! Look out for Powers Farm beef on the next meat share. read more »
Cover Crops!
The oats & peas cover crop is in and we're excited to see what happens with it this fall. Fingers crossed that the rain doesn't wash it out but helps it germinate nicely.
The mix of oats and peas should grow enough this fall to give the ground a good cover, as well as shade out winter ann1 read more »
Season of Transitions
I've always had a difficult time with transitions. The shifting of seasons is a huge transition on the farm because our work changes in a short amount of time. We must learn to balance the tasks of the previous season with the tasks of the impending one. During the summer to fall shift, we are stil1 read more »
See you later, Summer!
It seems that many folks try to rush the end of summer, ushering in fall specials, fall menus, fall decor and more. The stifling heat of this past week reminds us that summer is not ready to leave us quite yet! Fall can take its time this year, but we know that we will be enjoying that crisp air an1 read more »
Eggs, Melons, & Lettuce!
We welcomed some new hens to the farm a couple weeks ago, so we plan to have a whole lot more eggs very soon! If you have been wanting to add eggs to your share, you'll be able to do so soon. You'll see pullet eggs on the list for $4/dozen. These are smaller eggs and we will have them for a few wee1 read more »
Operation Thistle Eradication
The beets in the picture this week are grown in a field full of thistle. In fact, much of our growing space is covered in Canadian Thistle at this point. We have spent many, many hours pulling, cutting, spraying (with vinegar), flame weeding and tarping it in efforts to rid our ground of the noxiou1 read more »
The Farm Stand is Open for Early Week Deliveries!
The Farm Stand is now Open for early week deliveries! The deadline to customize is Monday, 8/21 at 11:59p.
We are in peak tomato season now, so if you're planning to can, freeze, or otherwise preserve the tomato harvest, THIS is the week!! read more »
Welcome back!
The Summer CSA resumes this week! We hope you had as lovely a CSA break as we did here. We were able to get some fall crops planted, lots of tomatoes picked, beds flipped, and we even managed to get away to Michael's family's lake house for a couple of days (thank you Kelly & crew)!
We also sai1 read more »
The Farm Stand is OPEN for Saturday deliveries!
The Farm Stand is now OPEN for Saturday deliveries!
There are some new items on the list (green beans and carrots are back) so be sure to check out what is fresh this week.
Pick up your box at Central Market York, the Downingtown Farmers Market, the Dillsburg Farmers Market or on the Farm on Satur1 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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