We consider this now our Winter Season, so it’s quite fitting to have snow around, but we’re just not used to it. We’ve obviously never had a foot of snow this early in the season before, and our row covers that were quaint a week ago are now laughable as they emerge in their new… Continue reading SNOW! and Vegetables go Beautifully Together…mkt for 12.15.2018

This is how we feel about our broccoli greens right now….They are so good! As we approach the Winter Solstice, daylight hours continue to decrease. There are fewer and fewer vegetables remaining in our fields, and we are grateful for our hoophouses. This week saw our first ever Winter Farm Share and our first ever… Continue reading First Customized Farm Shares, plus Market for 12/8

It’s getting seriously cold (for central Virginia)! We are very grateful for covered vegetables so that our community can still eat very well. Our final Farm Shares of our main season get picked up this Saturday. THANK YOU to our amazing Farm Share members who make our farm possible. Our main season Farm Share starts… Continue reading As Winter Sets In…We Eat Vegetables….plus Farm Shares & Mkt 11.30.18

It was a scurry and hustle around here on Wednesday as we harvested everything we could that we thought would be damaged or destroyed by the 21 degree low forecasted for this morning. Everything, everything that we thought could be saved by row cover got the White Blanket Treatment. Every winter it’s an eerie thing… Continue reading Safe Salad, Farm Shares, and Markets this weekend 11.24 & 11.25

We call this weekly email the Farm Newsletter. But, in honor of the 2018 weather, we think we should rename it to the Rain Newsletter. Or maybe because of the allure of alliteration we should call it the Rain Report. We got a 25 degree freeze over the weekend but we’d covered everything that needed… Continue reading Rain Newsletter….plus CSA & mkts 11.17.18