Farm Happenings at Oak Spring Farm
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Farm Happenings at Oak Spring Farm

Farm Happenings for June 16, 2020

Posted on June 12th, 2020
Happy Friday!  What beautiful weather and what beautiful rain we had this week! We are growing a bounty of food here at Oak Spring. The Fava beans are coming in and looking gorgeous! You'll get a big 2# bag of Favas this week to make a special treat. Find your favorite recipe (or somebody's fa1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 9, 2020

Posted on June 5th, 2020
Happy Second Main Season CSA! We will have broccoli this week, both heads and mini bunches, kohlrabi, hakurei turnips, Easter egg and French breakfast radishes, romaine lettuce, red butterhead lettuce and salad mix, kale, chard and more! Harvie always gives storage tips and recipe ideas with your s1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 6, 2020

Posted on June 2nd, 2020
Happy First Main Season CSA pick up at Hereford Farm Market! Welcome back to those returning members and Welcome to the newest members of our farmily ;) We love to grow good food and share it with this vibrant, caring & strong community we live in. Oak Spring is a mere 15 minutes up the road fr1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 2, 2020

Posted on May 29th, 2020
Happy Friday and the beginning of Main Season CSA! Your picture this week show's Lisa, Greg and Cat cleaning and prepping vegetables for you! For those of you new to Oak Spring's CSA WELCOME and to everyone else WELCOME BACK! Please everyone read this entire e-mail; we will go over our procedures n1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 26, 2020

Posted on May 22nd, 2020
Happy rainy Friday! Happy final week of our 4 week Spring (May) CSA.  We picked our first real round of strawberries today just as it started to rain! The rain comes after quite a dry spell for us. After cold May temps we saw hot, windy weather and no rain for well over a week. It is welcome t1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 19, 2020

Posted on May 15th, 2020
Hello and welcome to Maryland weather! We were at the market in our winter coats, gloves and hats Saturday morning. It was even too cold to bring the transplants!  Tomorrow's forecast for market-80F. Our picture this week features Jenna and I pulling all the dead flowers and berries off the st1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 12, 2020

Posted on May 8th, 2020
Happy Spring?  It's a confusing season for weather. But we live in the Chesapeake region! WE spent a lot of the morning covering the strawberries as most all plants have immature berries and all plants have flowers that don't like to freeze!  We have tomatoes in the field that are covered1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 5, 2020

Posted on April 29th, 2020
Say Hello to Cat our team leader here at Oak Spring. Cat organizes the CSA and is most often the face you see when you pick up on Tuesdays at OSF. Cat interned here 3 years ago and came back last year with increased responsibilities and enthusiasm. Cat eats mostly vegan and enjoys baking,  coo1 read more »

Farm Happenings for April 28, 2020

Posted on April 24th, 2020
Hello! It's been a cold April here if North Baltimore County! But Mother Nature is giving us fairly consistent rain and the couple of frosts we've had we got ahead of and covered tender crops with row cover. So we're chugging along. It's been fun having so much activity on the farm in April. Earlie1 read more »