Farm Happenings at River Run Farm
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Farm Happenings at River Run Farm

Farm Happenings for July 29, 2020

Posted on July 24th, 2020
Hello Farmshare members! We are feeling so grateful to be growing food for you and your families. At this time of year we often work heads down and focused, sometimes forgetting to lift our heads and take it all in, including keeping the perspective of who we are growing and harvesting food for. Bu1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 22, 2020

Posted on July 17th, 2020
Hello members! Welcome to the Heart of the Season! The first of the storage crops are in for the season- garlic! It is happily beginning its curing process in the greenhouse now. We’ve got it covered with shade cloth and fans blasting away in there. Now we just hope for a few weeks of hot wea1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 15, 2020

Posted on July 15th, 2020
Greetings Farmshare members! Last week’s weather had been so unusually chilly, we were starting to get concerned about some of our hot-weather crops. In our climate, since there is no hope for a reliably warm June, we rely on warm weather in July and Augusts in order to grow crops such as cuc1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 15, 2020

Posted on July 13th, 2020
Greetings Farmshare members! Last week’s weather had been so unusually chilly, we are starting to get concerned about some of our hot-weather crops. In our climate, since there is no hope for a reliably warm June, we rely on warm weather in July and Augusts in order to grow crops such as cucu1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 15, 2020

Posted on July 10th, 2020
Greetings Farmshare members! This past week’s weather has been so unusually chilly, we are starting to get concerned about some of our hot-weather crops. In our climate, since there is no hope for a reliably warm June, we rely on warm weather in July and Augusts in order to grow crops such as1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 8, 2020

Posted on July 6th, 2020
Hello Farmshare Members! In full swing, the crops and us farmers are just moving things along here; thousands of transplants are planted these early July weeks for late summer, fall, and even winter harvests. Seeds are sown on a regular basis. Harvesting now happens almost everyday of the week. And1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 8, 2020

Posted on July 2nd, 2020
Hello Farmshare Members! In full swing, the crops and us farmers are just moving things along here; thousands of transplants are planted these early July weeks for late summer, fall, and even winter harvests. Seeds are sown on a regular basis. Harvesting now happens almost everyday of the week. And1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 1, 2020

Posted on June 26th, 2020
Hi folks, Last week we really upped our harvest game! We starting our lettuce wholesale harvests- getting the lettuce out to even more people. We also had our first harvest for the Ballard Farmers Market this season. The new crew mates are learning quickly and bringing a lot of fresh, inspiring ene1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 24, 2020

Posted on June 18th, 2020
Happy Solstice folks! The crops are loving these long days with the sunshine interspersed with the little rains we had over the weekend. What is always striking to me at this time of year is the lettuce. All of a sudden, it starts growing quickly and we can hardly keep up with harvesting1 read more »