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Farm Happenings at Wild Coyote Farm
Final box & news
The end of the season is always a bittersweet thing, but this week will be your last delivery. It has been a bit of an unseasonably warm fall, but as the days shorten, plant growth slows tremendously. Even with greenhouse production we have found it most prudent to just call it quits in the middle1 read more »
Looking Forward
As a regenerative farmer, we always have our eyes on the future, trying to leverage every action to improve the soil, which will have a positive effect for the coming years. This time of year, we try and shift our focus from this season on to next season, getting as many things done that we can bef1 read more »
Moving On
The fall weather (finally) makes for a much more relaxing time moving sheep. The animals are calmer and less stressed than when it’s hot out. Today we had to sort out the ram lambs to prevent unwanted breeding, pull out a group for sale, and check over the ewes as we moved them all to new pas1 read more »
Fall Crops
I was hoping to have sweet corn for all of you this week, but it appears as though the drought destroyed the final crop. There are definitely things that are thankful for the dry weather. It has been great for squash and potatoes this season, it makes harvest easy and storage on squash much better.1 read more »
Summer & Honeycrisp
Summer never ends! It’s hotter and drier now than it’s been all summer long. This is definitely making growing fall produce more of a challenge. With the warm weather we are wishing that we had more plantings of summer produce like melons and tomatoes, but alas, we are not future teller1 read more »
Squash
If you eat winter squash in the summer, is it still winter squash? I suppose so eh? By the way we are bring winter squash in and we will be getting out to to you all over the following weeks. Pumpkins? Yep they are ready to haul in and the pie pumpkins look like stellar little fellows this year. Ma1 read more »
Apple time!
We are entering a season of transition. If it’s not planted by now, might as well not try, except for possibly baby greens. Not to worry though, we have produce out there that still needs eaten in the coming weeks! Last week we sent out potatoes in your boxes, we will continue to have them al1 read more »
Product Update
Potatoes? Yep we started digging them today! Quality and yield are looking good, so get the chili and cheese ready fall is coming! It feels strange this year actually because most produce is ahead of schedule. Even our late seeded pumpkins are turning orange. Well it’s been cool this week so1 read more »
Tomato Season
I like to think that we have two season here on the farm, tomato season and winter, but we don’t always get tomatoes rocking quite that early in the spring. But, though we have tomatoes for a long time, there definitely is allot more that come out if the field in the summer time. Thousands of1 read more »