This morning, even though the farmer usually starts harvesting for tomorrow’s CSA and market first thing, we lingered over our cups of coffee talking greenhouses. This is a topic that often comes up, but it is at this time of year that we think about it most. When we started farming, we used a small [...]
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Thinking about Greenhouses
Posted in challenges, farm, farming, greenhouse, local food, newsletter, seasonal eating, spring, tagged farming, newsletter, planting, seasons, spring on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week on the farm…
Posted in changes, children, cycles, family, farm, farming, home, newsletter, spring, summer, tagged family, farming, home, newsletter, seasons, spring, summer on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
was warm! brought color to our skin kept us out of doors all day brought visible growth in the plants from one day to the next (this is always exciting when one has watched plants sit in the field growing so slow in the cooler weather!) meant hard work–most of the whole main field was [...]
Little Helpers
Posted in children, family, farm, farming, home, newsletter, tagged family, farming, home, homeschooling, newsletter, planting, seasons, spring on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week has been busy. With warm, dry weather for a change and the last frost behind us, we have been prepping and planting all week, all of us. The kids and I, although really just side line workers in the field, do what we can when we can, to help the farmer with all [...]
Food for thought
Posted in community, cooking, CSA, farm, farming, health, home, newsletter, nutrition, organic, politics, seasonal eating, tagged community supported agriculture, farming, food politics, newsletter, nutrition on April 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A neighbor brought this over for us this week, and I couldn’t help sharing. I especially like numbers 1-4. Five and six seem like tenets everyone pretty much holds dear, right? And no one wants to waste food. But I like that the US Food Administration is promoting these two things when it comes to [...]
Beginnings
Posted in challenges, community, CSA, family, farm, farmer's market, farming, local food, mcminnville, newsletter, permaculture, seasonal eating, Uncategorized, Wendell Berry, tagged community supported agriculture, family, farming, newsletter, Wendell Berry on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hooray! Today marks the beginning of another CSA season, our fifth. This week we have been thinking back to our first year, the beginnings of Growing Wild Farm. We were happy to realize that a third of our members are founding members, folks that have been part of this farm experience since the beginning. Another [...]
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