About your Veggies!

Hello Veggie Lovers!! Coming in the Veggie Lovers Club farm share bags on August 9 (Brandon) and 10 (Rivers): Romaine Lettuce, 1 headBeets, small bunch with topsRed Potatoes, 1.5 lbsKale, small bunchCucumbers, 2Basil PlantOnions, bunch of 2 white and 1 red with useable green tops Welcome, Summer! Holy hell it was hot digging potatoes on

Pickling Cucumbers 2022

Jon and I didn’t grow many/any cucumbers intended for pickling this year, but Mom (Stephanie) did! If you’d like to connect with some this year, please fill out this form and we will contact you when she has some available. Orders will be filled based on availability of cucumbers. We will contact you when some

Meet Spud!

While digging potatoes Monday, we were annoyed by a loud & persistent peeping sound. “What kind of bird is that?” Jon pondered. Suddenly, I had a realization that it was much closer than we had first thought, and walked a few steps away to find: A duckling! He was alone and stumbling through some weeds,

Red Bag Contents Aug 2 & 3

Coming in the Veggie Lovers Club farm share bags on August 2 (Brandon) and 3 (Rivers): Carrots, extra large bunchPeas, Shelling (peas in the pod) 1 lb: 4A Farms, WinklerGreen Garlic, bunchFennel, 1 headLeaf Lettuce, 2 heads, Red & Green Please be aware that this is our best idea of what we will be putting

Peas: Why we buy in

Peas are an incredibly popular crop. When we were doing markets, we could easily sell 400 lbs of peas in 4 hours. For some perspective, I can pick around 20 lbs an hour if the picking is good. This year we’ve got 2 rows of peas and they yielded about 20 lbs from the first

July 12 & 13 Red Bag Contents

Coming in the Red Bags on July 12th (Brandon) and 13th (Rivers): Garlic Scapes, bunchRomaine Lettuce, 1 large or 2 smallLettuce Mix, 0.5 lbHakurei Turnips (white salad turnips with edible tops), 1 bunchBaby Dill, small bag (Grown by Mom!)New Potatoes (*Pending harvest: hopefully! Will be baby Carrots or Potatoes, both are somewhat scarce yet) Please

Red Bag Contents July 5 & 6

Coming in the Red Bags for Veggie Lovers on July 5th and 6th: Radishes, large bunchLettuce Mix, small bagButter Lettuce, 1 large headGreen Onions, small bunchBaby Beets/Beet Greens, bunchPea Shoots, small bagAsparagus, 1/2 lb Jeffries Bros. Growers, Portage CSA Members please use this link & login to your account if you’d like to place an

June 14/22 Rainfall

We didn’t get much rain yesterday (lots around though) and then overnight got 2.5 inches, followed by another 1-3/4 inches this morning. It was already quite soggy so there is a lot of overland flooding in the area and the culverts are pumping out water at max capacity! “Lake Myrah” has returned on our farm

What’s in the bag: June 21/22 Red Bag Contents

*The contents of the upcoming bag have been adjusted, please see this post for correct contents. Our first CSA bag of the season begins on Tuesday June 21 for our 24-week Brandon members, and Wednesday June 22 for our 16-week Rivers members! SPOILER ALERT!! It’s pouring out today, on top of already soggy soil, so

On the farm this week

The deer have been helping themselves to our spinach. We use cages to cover crops that we want to exclude deer from (like lettuce), but they’re a pain to move from one field to another. I decided making a scarecrow was a better long term fix, not to mention a fun project to do with