Farm Happenings at Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farm
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Farm Happenings at Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farm

Service Opportunity and Back to School

Posted on August 19th, 2023
Summer fun seems to end suddenly each year doesn't it?  But summer heat and summer harvests do not end!  Your summer CSA membership doesn't end until October 21st, so we have 9 more weeks of amazing veggies to harvest.  We'll be working shorthanded the rest of the season, missing som1 read more »

Millions of Peppers, Peppers for You

Posted on August 12th, 2023
Movin' to the countryGonna eat a lot of peppersMovin' to the countryGonna eat me a lot of peppers Now is the time to enjoy sweet Italian peppers.  If you haven't tried them yet, I don't know where you've been.  They're the most amazing snack and they're amazing cooked as well.  We've1 read more »

Rain, Rain Go Away!

Posted on August 5th, 2023
Weather or not we're ready... The drought is over.  We aren't flooded, but everything has been muddy and wet for over a week now.  This has kept us in out of the heat, which is nice, but it's bad for a lot of the plants.  The outdoor tomatoes are succumbing to bacterial and fungal di1 read more »

Avoiding Summer Burnout

Posted on July 29th, 2023
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!

Posted on July 22nd, 2023
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

Posted on July 13th, 2023
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

Posted on July 8th, 2023
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

Posted on July 1st, 2023
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 »

Brutal Week Coming Up

Posted on June 24th, 2023
I don't know about you, but 99 degrees in the forecast is never something we look forward to.  We're doing our best to beat the heat, starting at 6:00 AM in the "cool" of the morning.  This week will most likely see the end of the blessed broccolini until the fall cool-down, but the heat1 read more »