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Notes from the Field: Fall/Winter Pickup 3

Notes from the Field: Fall/Winter Pickup 3

Notes from the Field We are looking forward to seeing you again after a very cold Thanksgiving week! Last Thursday and Friday the night-time low hit 11 F, 19 degrees below average in Lexington. We put extra row covers over our spinach, cilantro, lettuce, scallions, […]

Notes from the Field: Fall/Winter Pick Up 2

Notes from the Field: Fall/Winter Pick Up 2

Notes from the Field This week has been spent harvesting, harvesting, harvesting! We will have a jam-packed farm stand tomorrow and Saturday with Thanksgiving and cozy winter essentials. This time of year I am glued to the NOAA weather website, even more so than your […]

Notes from the Field: Fall/Winter Week 1

Notes from the Field: Fall/Winter Week 1

Notes from the Field We’re so excited about our first fall CSA distribution tomorrow! It’s been a whirlwind of a week to get ready for it. We took advantage of sunny skies early in the week to finish cleaning up our summer production fields. We also […]

Notes from the Field: Week 20

Notes from the Field: Week 20

Notes from the Field It’s the last week of our Summer CSA! And seemingly perfect timing, as our first freeze is predicted for Thursday night. We have a very busy week ahead of us as we bring in a big harvest for our final summer […]

Notes from the Field: Week 19

Notes from the Field: Week 19

Notes from the Field With only two distributions remaining in the Summer CSA, this week we are taking inventory of our fall storage crops and getting organized for our Fall CSA and Fall Bulk Sale. We’re continuing to celebrate our allium harvest, looking forward to pulling […]

Notes from the Field Week 18

Notes from the Field Week 18

Notes from the Field Last week started out on a high when our summer farm crew got together for an end of season celebration at Flatbread. It gave us time to reflect on a season that gave us both sweltering heat and heavy thunderstorms and […]

Notes from the Field: Week 17

Notes from the Field: Week 17

Notes from the Festival! Happy Fall! Last weekend we welcomed hundreds of people to the farm for our 5th annual Harvest Festival! Thank you to everyone who came, and many thanks to those who pitched in! We saw many long-time members, new neighbors, and first-timers. […]

Notes from the Field: Week 16

Notes from the Field: Week 16

For the past few weeks, our flower field has been overflowing with abundant blooms, colors, and several kinds of bees and pollinators. It always make me happy to hear about flowers brightening every room in a shareholder’s house and to watch CSA members carefully selecting […]