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Farm Happenings at Springdale Farm
Farm Happenings for November 4, 2020
Spreading compost on the land
Soil, perhaps our most precious asset! One of the major differences between organic farmers, and non-organic farmers, is the organic farmers' commitment to not use any synthetically-derived pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and even fertilizers to grow their cro1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 30, 2020
Justice McKay, the coordinator of this year's hemp crop, happy to get on with the harvesting!
This week's offerings: this week's celery is not fully grown, to be sure, but with the temperature dipping into the mid 20's this coming week, we figured 'Better something than nothing!', so we will1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 28, 2020
Justice McKay, the coordinator of this year's hemp crop, happy to get on with the harvesting!
This week's offerings: this week's celery is not fully grown, to be sure, but with the temperature dipping into the low 20's this coming week, we figured 'Better something than nothing!', so we will1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 21, 2020
Our Norwegian potato digger with a few bins in the foreground
This week's offerings: Spinach (for all who want it), along with perhaps the last of the tomatoes, in this week's boxes. Should be cilantro, potatoes, acorn squash, chinese cabbage, and onions as well, along with lesser1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 21, 2020
Our Norwegian potato digger with a few bins in the foreground
This week's offerings: Spinach (for all who want it), along with perhaps the last of the tomatoes, in this week's boxes. Should be cilantro, potatoes, acorn squash, chinese cabbage, and onions as well, along with lesser1 read more »
Farm Happenings for Oct. 16, 2020
This week's fennel ready for harvest
This week's line-up: In addition to fennel, we send along delicata, carnival squash, sweet potatoes, some greens, some cabbage, tomatoes, etc. Lots of tomatillos available (for swapping or purchase) as well!
This week's tardiness of this e-mail: 1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 14, 2020
This week's fennel ready for harvest
This week's line-up: In addition to fennel, we send along delicata, sweet potatoes, some greens, some large (good for kraut) cabbage, tomatoes, etc. Also, we mistakenly gave only 1 daikon radish last week, (instead of 3), so we are listing it again, in the1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 9, 2020
Digging purple potatoes before (or actually during) a slight rain
Harvesting! In this picture we are harvesting some of our potato crop on Saturday morning. The soil was a little too wet to do it efficiently, but with the forecast for rain in the afternoon, we needed to take every oppor1 read more »
Spinach and Hot Pepper Information
Hello,
The quantity of spinach available was a little less than expected, the bag has less than we hoped. We are giving an extra tomato to those of you who are receiving spinach.
Also, for those who are receiviing a bag of hot peppers, the bag may include a poblano and/or a jalapeno.
Thanks for you1 read more »
About the farm
Springdale Farm started out as a CSA in 1988, and now supplies approximately 1200 CSA members, spanning several counties in southeast Wisconsin, with its organic produce. The farm is able to extend its short Wisconsin growing season with the help of over an acre of greenhouses.
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