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By freshearthfarms, on June 18th, 2013
 LET’S GET READY TO RUMMMMBBBBLLLLLLEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
VeggieShare starts this week! It has been a struggle to get the farm to this stage this spring. So much to grow, so little time. Eight inches of snow on May 2nd certainly didn’t help. But we made it this far and there is no turning back. This first week and probably the next will be a little on the short side. We could not plant any of our usual April plantings that usually fill the first couple weeks of shares. So we are filling them with
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By freshearthfarms, on June 12th, 2013
 It was nice to have a few volunteers come out to help weed this past week. We appreciate their effort! If you are looking for a reason to enjoy the lovely weather we get here every once in a while think about coming out to the farm. There is always plenty to do. Contact me before heading out here.
This is the last newsletter from this year’s preseason (the time before we start the harvesting season). As we’ve done every year since the beginning of this century we’ve again gone undefeated. Quite
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By freshearthfarms, on June 1st, 2013
 Did you know that Monday June 3rd is the first annual “Take a Mental Health Break from Work Day”? As is tradition, TAMHBFWD is always the first Monday in June where the forecast calls for nice weather. With forecast of partly cloudy skies and highs around 70 degrees this will be the best TAMHBFWD ever!
In celebration of TAMHBFWD we here at Fresh Earth Farms – the hardest working farm in Denmark Township – will be hosting its annual TAMHBFWD festival. This year’s theme is “Be a Farmer for a
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By freshearthfarms, on May 28th, 2013
Red Cross Lettuce
This week’s earworm: ”Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head“. Not a problem if you are lettuce…
Just a few quick messages before we get into the meat of the newsletter.
Now is the time to make your final decisions on additional items. Just to remind you, we have a Multi-product discount. If you purchase three items you get $25 off. If you purchase five items you get $50 off. Included are VeggieShare, FruitShare, [Read More]
By freshearthfarms, on May 20th, 2013
All the recent rain has given me time to catch up on a little reading.
 First some good news. We grow 6 of the 7 Fruits and Vegetables that Reverse the Signs of Aging. That alone would be a good reason to join the farm! To see for myself how well eating these vegetables reverses aging I dug up a couple pictures from last season – one of me at the beginning of the season and the other at the end of the season – and put them side-by-side to
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By freshearthfarms, on May 15th, 2013
 Ok, time to update my predictions for the season that I made in last week’s newsletter. As you may recall, I thought that some of the transplanted spring crops will be in shorter supply than usual. I need to update this prediction. Why? Because on Saturday and Sunday mornings we had below freezing temperatures here. Now normally this would not be a problem with the early crops; they are frost tolerant. But normally frosty temps are followed by cool to normal temps, NOT 96 DEGREE TEMPS! And as
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By freshearthfarms, on May 9th, 2013
Lettuce Transplants
What has been happening on the farm this week? Transplanting, transplanting, transplanting. I calculated we transplanted 13,760 plants the last two and a half days. That’s the most we have ever transplanted in recorded history (mostly since we have never actually recorded the number before). This would have been a good year to have a transplanting machine other than Rebecca and Simon. But they held up well and didn’t breakdown the whole time. The combined length of all the rows we planted
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By freshearthfarms, on May 2nd, 2013
With yesterday’s snowfall I felt it was appropriate to publish an Extra newsletter edition this week. What else is a farmer to do when you get this much snow in May?
Here is a picture of the table on the back deck. As you can see we received about eight inches of snow.
8 inches of snow!
Here is a picture of where we planted the potatoes on Monday. Maybe we shouldn’t have done that…
By freshearthfarms, on May 1st, 2013
 First a quick apology. As many of you have noticed the weather hasn’t been its usual self these days. My bad. We’ve been experiencing some “glitches” in our weather control system (the WCS 10000) that seems to cause it to randomly reboot. And as you all know, when it reboots it resets to January 1st. On the bright side this has been a warm January! We’re not sure if it is a hardware or software problem but we hope to have it fixed shortly. In the meantime, please work
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By freshearthfarms, on April 23rd, 2013
 I found out that this week is National Volunteering Week and US Veg Week. Who’d like to volunteer to come out and shovel the snow off our vegetable fields?
The other day I was looking for someone to deliver our drop site boxes to River Market in Stillwater. As I was trying to figure out who would be a potential deliver person I decided it would work best if I could somehow ”see” where all our members live. “Hmm, why not use Google maps?” I thought. But entering in
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