Fresh Earth Farms - CSA

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

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 […]

Living Dangerously

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 […]

Repredicting

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.  […]

I Can Plant for Miles and Miles

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 […]

Extra Extra, Read All About It

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. Here is a picture […]

Under Repair

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.  […]