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Farm Happenings at Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farm
Avoiding Summer Burnout
Do you ever hit a wall in life? I've never run a marathon, but I've heard about the "wall" somewhere close to the finish when your body just doesn't think it can go on. For our farming year (yes we farm all year round with a winter CSA season as well), the wall comes around now. L1 read more »
TOMATO TIME and Summer is Heating Up!
Have you seen the forecast? It's going to be hot! We're making efforts to prepare for the scorching heat. We tried to get as much greenhouse trellising and pruning work done as possible this week so we can stay out of there (besides harvesting) this coming week. Our work schedules are v1 read more »
Squeezing Life into Farming
We had a really fun week this past week spending time with Sheri's brother and family visiting from out of town and celebrating her parent's recent move to Blue Springs from Rolla. We worked half days and took half days off to spend time with them. We had a couple of our employees hold1 read more »
Squishing squash bugs
We hope you had a wonderful 4th of July celebration! We took a few hours off to join some good friends (who happen to work with us on the farm) for food, games and firework watching. The cooler weather the later half of the week and some early nights to bed helped us get rested up and r1 read more »
CSA On Schedule this Week
Just in case you were wondering, we are following the regularly scheduled CSA pickups this week. We will take off some time to celebrate in the evenings, but we'll be hard at it getting things together for your CSA boxes.
I'm sad to report that we've reached the end of the broccolini. S1 read more »
About the farm
We're a big family with a small farm in Independence, MO. We have a passion for building soil, growing amazing veggies, and building a vibrant community of local eaters. Our Community Supported Agriculture program serves our neighbors in Overland Park, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs and Independence with weekly boxes of amazing veggies. We grow food for our members without the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers. We love eating fresh food and we love helping our members learn how to use our veggies to make amazing meals.
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