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Farm Happenings at Robinette Farms
Farm Happenings for August 15, 2018:Summer in full swing, back to school, and Alex's podcast!
This is a big year for our family...all 3 of our children will be in school! Nina will be in 3rd grade and Roisin and Fiona will be in Kindergarten! What will we do with all of the kids out of the house for most of the day? The potential for productivity is astounding! We will miss them but will ap1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 8, 2018: Halfway through Summer CSA
This week marks the halfway point through our Summer CSA season, can you believe it? August 8th is Week 10 out of 20.
It's August and we are busy harvesting and planting the last of our big fall field plantings this week. Our final broccoli planting goes in as well as more kohlrabi, turnips, radish1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 1, 2018 - Taking a big picture view
CSA Info!
Remember, you have lots of ways you can modify your share to meet the needs of your family's tastes and busy schedules! Login to your Harvie account anytime to change your delivery date or location, edit your veggie preferences or to add additional contacts so everyone in your family get1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 25, 2018 - July makes us a little silly...!
CSA Info!
Remember, you have lots of ways you can modify your share to meet the needs of your family's tastes and busy schedules! Login to your Harvie account anytime to change your delivery date or location, edit your veggie preferences or to add additional contacts so everyone in your family get1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 18, 2018 - It's crunch time on the farm!
CSA Info!
Remember, you have lots of ways you can modify your share to meet the needs of your family's tastes and busy schedules! Login to your Harvie account anytime to change your delivery date or location, edit your veggie preferences or to add additional contacts so everyone in your family get1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 11, 2018: Summer Fruits are coming...
CSA Info!
Remember, you have lots of ways you can modify your share to meet the needs of your family's tastes and busy schedules! Login to your Harvie account anytime to change your delivery date or location, edit your veggie preferences or to add additional contacts so everyone in your family get1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 5, 2018: The Cool-Season/Warm-Season Transition
Important Info
NO pickup on the 4th of July
All pickups will happen on Thursday, July 5th -- same time, same places -- just one day later
The Cool-Season/Warm-Season Transition
We grow a wide variety of crops, but many -- perhaps even most -- are cool-season crops. That's most of what you'v1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 27, 2018
Last week we complained about the heat and lack of precipitation; this week we’ll complain about the excessive rain: this is how you know we’re farmers! My dad likes to talk about the weather and that always annoyed me – until I became a farmer. I kid you not, we could talk weathe1 read more »
Here Comes Summer Solstice!
It’s hot and dry! This has been a whiplash kind of season and the growing conditions for Chloe and the crew are very challenging. The late, late spring meant nothing wanted to grow, and then the sudden late May and early June heat shocked all the stuff that was trying to get going1 read more »