Category: CSA In The Box

Another week, another set of weird weather things behind us. The rain ‘thing’ ended up about 8″ over a three-day window – which was not fun here. The John Deere (Battery powered) Gator was just drowned and had to take a few days off in the barn to recuperate. All the alignment of boards and… Continue reading Winter Season Week 4

So much for warmish weather in February. To be honest, this isn’t really a surprise. The hard part is just doing a thorough job of protecting the very early warm season plants, and then going with the best data. Back in very early January it got down to 12F here; this most recent cold snap… Continue reading Winter Week 3

This last week was about as good as it can get for winter gardening – sun breaks, not very cold at night, only a bit of wind. Times like that need to be used when they happen – February won’t give up on winter at all even a little bit. Snow showers and overnight temps… Continue reading Winter Week 2

Here it comes – this is the first of the eight Winter season weekly pickings, which is very exciting, at least if you are craving some excellent greens. The very earliest plantings for this season happened November 10th. The lesson learned in 2021 was that cool and dark (winter is starting in November, so far… Continue reading Winter Season 2022 Week 1

Winter distribution starts this next week – pretty exciting, at least here at the farm there is excitement. One of the stressful parts of the Winter season is not being able to accurately predict how fast things will get ready to go out. The lettuce for the first session was planted November 10th, all because… Continue reading 2022 Winter Season starting up!

This is the final delivery week for 2021; the extended season is wrapped up. Anecdote: My maternal Grandfather was in the army right at the very end of WWI. He told me that he was on a train to the front when the French came pouring out shouting “Finis La Guerre! Finis la Guerre!” Now,… Continue reading Week 6 Extended Season (end)

Wow – the end is really near! The garden is in the middle of cleanup and cleanout, with really difficult weather to keep a work cadence going. Rain/Wind/Cool and all that entails. Some of our really pretty Cauliflower is starting to show damage, which demotes it from box duty. Lettuce is just barely hanging in… Continue reading Week 5 Extended Season

November marks a major closure for the CSA: finishing off the last of the crops for the year; cleaning out the dead and dying crops, and starting to do planning for the next season. That may sound a bit premature – but there are seeds getting planted this week for 2022 – some for the… Continue reading Week 4 Extended Season in-the-box

Well, here we are in week 3 of the extended season… and extremely wet and windy. One of the large greenhouse doors kinda blew up a bit and needed rescue (stitch down the edges with screws) after this last couple of days. The funny thing is how the Broccoli and Cauliflower seem to be actually… Continue reading Week 3 Extended Season

Hi All – Sitting here after a day’s work thinking about a nap before bed… then it hits me… “In the box email! you need to write the in-the-box email!” Well then, now you know the inner workings of the geezer CSA farmer. The farm news this week is as follows: Pesky mole invader had… Continue reading Extended Season Week 2 of 6