Musings Spring is here and it’s a marvel to behold. We are beckoned outside where there are new changes to enjoy daily. The birds are especially active and there is an increasingly diverse chorus of them. We have a woodcock with its plaintive call, in the underbrush near our house. In big news, we are Continue reading
Have you noticed the days are lengthening? Soon the sunshine will warm our skin. In 2021, members visited the farm over 1,000 times- that’s the start of many deliciously healthy meals. We remain committed to the share model, where we are feeding people, not selling food. That means the shareholders are our top priority. Our Continue reading
In January, we sent in our seed orders. It’s a fun challenge to embrace and it allows us to get a wide range of varieties for your dinner table. If you want to learn more about sourcing and how we decide what to plant, click here to read our farm journal post from last January, Continue reading
Farm Happenings The photo above is Sydney and Steve, Community Based Learning (CBL) students making sauerkraut with us and homestead shareholders this weekend. “Just leaving the farm with some root veggies, kale and herbs. Feeling so much gratitude! We truly loved this CSA this summer. The model you’ve developed makes it feel like home/family and Continue reading
Farm Happenings What a great roots harvest! The farm’s sandy loam is well-suited to growing roots. Though there were long dry stretches during the summer, we watered at the right times to keep these plants growing steadily. There’s abundant carrots, beets and radishes this week for everyone to enjoy. Parsnips and rutabagas also make a Continue reading
Farm Happenings In the true spirit of sharing the risk and the bounty inherent in our model of community supported agriculture, we are extending the share season one full week! Instead of the share ending Sunday October 31st as originally planned, shareholders can continue to visit the farm to pick up food through dusk Sunday Continue reading
Farm Happenings Thank you chickens. You enriched our soils and we loved spending the season with such a curious and healthy group of birds. While we mostly focus on food crops at littleGrasse, side projects such as the pumpkin contest add a whimsical note to the farm. See video announcing winners of this year’s pumpkin Continue reading
Farm Happenings This was a whirlwind of a week in the best possible way. We had a great clean-up day in Irene’s field while hosting St. Lawrence students, picking down the pepper plants, lopping the spent sunflowers, harvesting beets and feeding lots of plant material to the chickens. The earlier parts of the season are Continue reading