Category: CSA Monthly Update

June has come (well, it actually has been here for a week now) and it is time for the semi-famous Shilofarm CSA Monthly Update – Tada! The Main season is in the third week; some of the garden crops are now starting to show up in the boxes, but not all, not yet. The plan… Continue reading June Monthly Update

May has come – and with it, the main season which starts May 26th. It is always exciting to get ready to roll into summer; lots of crops planted, to be planted, getting ready to harvest… A friend bought himself a drone, and came by to show it off – naturally, an over-head of the… Continue reading CSA Monthly – May

Welcome to the April update… Green Season is well underway; this is the second delivery week of the eight. Main Season first delivery will be May 26, a Wednesday (it made sense to move the first delivery of a week to actually be in the same week. Finally.). Several of you on this email list… Continue reading April Update

Greetings! This is the highly optimistic time of year – lots of major improvements that are getting the garden in great shape for the coming seasons!  Here is where things are at: Green Season crops are on track – this includes radishes, carrots and new beets; should even have some snap peas to go with… Continue reading CSA March Update & Poll

February. This is a wet, but warmer than usual February thus far. The important things going on for the CSA are all around seed starts and setting out plants. All eight of the greenhouse beds are full and growing for Winter 1 and 2, and seed starts are in the propagation benches for Green 1.… Continue reading February’s Monthly Update

Hello Members… It turns out that there are secrets to the use of the ’email a post to the members’ process which have, thus far, eluded my grasp. That said, I appear to of stumbled upon the proper way to hold my mouth while I say the right thing. You have a couple of things… Continue reading CSA monthly update mail list test

HI! There are a couple of things that need to be done here before the February update goes out. First, this monthly update is being posted from the shiny new and somewhat, er, rough shilofarm.com website. So – the big question is “does this work for sending out a status update.” The other question is… Continue reading Early Note about the monthly update…

Current Projects and Tasks: Financial constraints in 2020 caused us to delay seed ordering. It is a major expense for things like potatoes and sweet potatoes, for example. That meant we ran into the great veggie seed panic of 2020 caused by people locked down and digging up the back yard to grow veggies. This… Continue reading January 2021 Monthly Update