Great news, everybody!  It rained!  We got nearly an inch and a half of rain between Friday evening and Saturday. I knew I was stressed, but I didn’t realize just how stressed until we got a little relief.  And while one rain event doesn’t change…

Last week I wrote about our irrigation system, how important it is and how grateful we are to have it as this drought continues.  Two days later, the farm well started sucking air.  The well technicians came the next morning and sunk the pipe another…

I love salad I hope you are as excited about salad as I am!  This week the box features multiple salad greens. Tokyo Bekana is the pale green leaves in your box.  It’s a great substitute for lettuce that we can grow in hotter weather…

August is a time of transition on the farm.  June and July have taken their toll, and there is not much coming out of the field right now.  We’ve taken down the tomato trellises, mowed and disk harrowed the tomato plants into the soil . …

I’ve been thinking about the farmers and farm workers in the areas most affected by the smoke from the wildfires in Canada.  Over the past couple weeks I’ve seen several posts on social media of small farmers like us working under smoky orange skies wearing…

Here we are powering through another hot week.  It is July after all.  The tomatoes have peaked.  We will have tomatoes for a couple more weeks and then that will be all until our last planting of Juliet plum tomatoes in September.  We’ve already starting…

Time is a funny thing Day by day tasks are completed, work is accomplished, and summer moves on.  Time wont stop and wait for us to catch up so we are swept ever forward toward the coming season.  In between the constant tomato picking –…

Last week was a hot one.  Happily, this week has started on a more tolerable note.  How do we cope with the heat? We stay hydrated.  There are electrolyte drink mix packets for everyone to use, and a refrigerator to keep drinks cold.  We encourage…