Fresh Earth Farms

We’ve had weather all week this week.  It never stops.  Day after day after day more weather weather weather.  Not much you can do about it so we farmers just suffer through.

Not much happening on the farm these days.  Just a lot of harvesting, weeding and planting.  What?  You are still planting?  Yup.  If we want veggies through October we have to start planting now.  And since I am sure everyone is enjoying their broccoli we figured we should plant more for the fall!  Of

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Welcome to Mediterranean week at Fresh Earth Farms!!  Why is it Mediterranean week?  Well, it seems a lot of this week’s produce has its roots in Mediterranean cooking.  We have basil and eggplants and garlic scapes and cucumbers and fennel – all vegetables found in dishes from the Mediterranean.  So get out the Mediterranean cookbooks and start looking up recipes.

As we all know, this past week or so has been hot and wet.  This is great weather for certain types of plants to grow.  These types of plants are known as weeds.  However, there are other types of plants

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Let’s start this week’s newsletter with a couple questions.  What is your definition of a Community Supported Agriculture farm?  Why did you join a CSA farm?  What is/was your expectation in joining a CSA farm?  I’m trying to gauge what people think CSA farming is all about.  I appreciate all responses!!

This past Sunday we experienced a bit of wind.  Well, maybe it was more than a bit.  It was more like a lot of wind.  Wind isn’t good for farming – unless you are a wind

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