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Farm Happenings at Willow Haven Farm
Your farm works on Labor Day
It’s hard to take a day off in the summer but we do it occasionally. On Monday, we worked on some projects around the house and prepared for the week of picking vegetables.
Loads of tomatoes are waiting for us in the field. I’m sure there are plenty of eggplant as well.
Last week1 read more »
Digging Ourselves a Hole
Your farm has major projects happening this week. Putting in our new root cellar is a great infrastructure improvement for our Farm Share CSA. Read more below.
New Item: fingerling potatoes
Fingerlings are their own variety of potato, though they often get confused with new potatoes be1 read more »
Work, Eat & Rest
It is really important that our farm family gets a day of rest on Sundays. This takes various forms: sometimes a nap in the afternoon and a visit with the farm grandparents, sometimes a walk on the country roads, or a date with good friends.
This weekend our family enjoyed a long afternoon of visit1 read more »
Oh, No! My Tomato has a Spot!
** Keep a close watch on your spaghetti squash, melons and tomatoes this week. **
What should you do if your farm fresh vegetables have spots or imperfections?You don’t need to throw the whole item out, save what you can. The earlier you catch it the more you can save and use. Usually the res1 read more »
You Can’t Even Imagine How Much
You can’t even imagine how many vegetables we are picking, sorting and packing at this time of year; thousands and thousands of zucchini, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, watermelons, cantaloupe, peppers and eggplant.
In recent weeks we’ve sent you farm fresh vegetables and m1 read more »
Rain & Watermelons
Remember all the rain and flooding last week? I bet some of you wondered how the farm does with all that water.
Well, we are lucky that we have soil that drains easily so even though we received 5 ½ inches of rain we didn’t experience any flooding, no crops were washed out and no1 read more »
A Challenging Week
About the Harvest: We are happy to have tomatoes and sweet corn for you this weekend. The rain is great for the corn but the dear are loving it too. They just walk over from our neighbors GM field corn into our field at night. I think they like organic better! This weather i1 read more »
A Community for you, a recipe, and a freebie!
In the past week Harvie opened a Facebook Group for all the farm share members of all the farms they work with. These CSA Farms are great and I've enjoyed getting to know their farmers through group discussions and seeing their posts on our farmer community groups.
I think you will enjo1 read more »
A Cool and Necessary Task
When we harvest 20 bins of cucumbers and zucchini the walk-in cooler seems crowded no matter how big we build it.
I caught on video the Farmer and our pack room coordinator, Danielle, reorganizing the stacks of bins in the walk-in. We have to keep things organized so we can access every1 read more »