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Farm Happenings at Meadowlark Community Farm
Summer Share: Week 15
This Week's Highlights: Tomato harvest - especially the heirlooms - has been breathtaking. We grow four, large heirloom varieties. Striped German is our favorite - yellow blushing to red. It has a complex, fruity flavor and smooth texture. The Aunt Ruby German Green Tomato is an old time heirloom f1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 14
This Week's Highlights: We settled into cleaning alliums - with the red cippolini onions making an appearance in this week's shares. Tomatoes continue to be bountiful, but the plants are beginning to decline. Cover crops that were planted a week ago are sprouting and greening up. We are still plant1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 13
This Week's Highlights: This week was a blur! Our worker share crew helped weed our fall brassicas. We planted a round of cover crops before the rain. Summer squash harvest is done, melon harvest is coming to a close, and tomato harvest has reached its peak. We will be starting winter squash harves1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 12
This Week's Highlights: The cantaloupes are delicious, and we are savoring the watermelon. Our curly parsley is gorgeous. (Here are some ideas for using your bunch of parsley.)
What We're Cooking: We are very excited about our second succession of bunching greens - kale, collards, and chard.1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 11
This Week's Highlights: This is the last week of sweet corn. We are offering some seconds quality ears, which are smaller or unevenly developed. (Perfect for cutting off the cob and preserving for winter.) We harvested (almost) all of the onions this past week, and the last of the fresh white onion1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 10
What a week! Some farm highlights: We harvested over 500 watermelons (with the help of our worker shares and some visiting nieces and nephews). The cherry tomatoes are picking up. We caught up on field planting. And the raccoon that had been enjoying our sweet corn seems to have moved on.
We'1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 9
Happy (almost) August! We are hustling to bring in some gorgeous crops. Sweet corn is trickling in, and we're beginning bulk harvests of our early season onions. Our first green beans of the year are ready. We'll start watermelon harvest early next week, and tomatoes will be in shares starting week1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 8
It's hard to believe that July is coming to a close. When we aren't harvesting, we're turning over spring crops, planting fall successions, and weeding weeding weeding.
This week's shares feature familiar favorites - new potatoes, green cabbage, and carrots. We've been making cilantro colesla1 read more »
Summer Share: Week 7
We are feeling the shift towards peak summer. Brassicas are slowing down - with cauliflower and napa cabbage making their first appearance for the season. Yellow summer squash, zucchini, and cucumbers are plentiful this week. We spotted the first few ripening cherry tomatoes in the hoophouse, and t1 read more »
About the farm
Meadowlark Community Farm is nestled in the southwest corner of Juneau County in the Driftless region of Wisconsin. Craig and Lauren Kreutzer (and their family) grow about 3 acres of diverse, certified organic produce. 2021 will be our 7th growing season, and we're honored to feed our community!
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