Farm Happenings at Moose Meadow Farm
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Farm Happenings at Moose Meadow Farm

The Fruits of Summer

Posted on July 19th, 2024
We are happy to share nearly ALL of our summer fruiting crops with you this week!  We are still waiting on bell peppers, snacking peppers, and paste tomatoes, but all of our other fruiting crops are here.  We call ourselves vegetable farmers, but it's really the fruits 1 read more »

Shishitos are here!

Posted on July 12th, 2024
Shishito peppers are here!   What's all the rage?  These are thin-walled peppers with mild heat (some are quite spicy but most are mild) that are very versatile.  In Japan, where they were originally bred, they are most often blistered in oil in a hot pan then sprinkled with sea salt1 read more »

Crazy July

Posted on July 5th, 2024
Welcome to Week 8!   It is July.  It is HOT!  We are thrilled.  After our field crops spent May and June limping along slowly, they are in for a wild ride this week as temps soar into the 90s.  All of the fertility that we applied to the soil last fall and this spring has m1 read more »

Happy 4th! Eating Local this holiday!

Posted on June 28th, 2024
Welcome to Week 7!   We hope you will have a fantastic July 4th celebration!  Our family and crew will all be ditching work mid-morning to attend the legendary Clark Fork July 4th parade and festivities.  We've never all taken the day off on a holiday before!  This year it feels1 read more »

Tomatoes are ON!

Posted on June 21st, 2024
Welcome to Week 6!   We are happy to announce that all of our tomatoes are available this week: cherries, heirlooms and beefsteaks.  The varieties of heirloom-types are as follows: Harvest Moon (yellow/red) Mai Tai (yellow/orange) Abigail (pink) Damsel (pink - Katherine's personal favorit1 read more »

Week 5: Loving Arugula

Posted on June 14th, 2024
Welcome to Week 5! Arugula is one of those vegetables that you rarely hear of, let alone eat, unless you are tuned into local eating.  I didn't eat arugula until after I graduated from college and started working on farms!  It has a very tender leaf that doesn't travel well, and it defin1 read more »

Gorgeous Flowers and Summer Squash!

Posted on June 7th, 2024
***We are hiring a delivery driver!  $19/hour Wednesdays and Saturdays.  This position is to fill in when our other driver is unavailable.  Perfect for someone on summer break or who is semi-retired!  Email us directly if you are interested or know someone who might be.  Th1 read more »

Week 3: New Potatoes!

Posted on June 5th, 2024
  ***We are hiring a part time delivery driver!  Wednesday and Saturday only.  This position is to fill in when our other driver is unavailable.  Email us if you're interested or know someone!  Thank you***   Welcome to Week 3!   We are excited to start pulling ou1 read more »

Week 3: New Potatoes!

Posted on May 31st, 2024
Welcome to Week 3!   We are excited to start pulling our new potatoes, which are Dark Red Norland grown in an unheated high tunnel.  We pre-sprout them in our warm greenhouse then put them in the ground around the first week of March.  It's a long wait, but worth it!  Growing th1 read more »