Farm Happenings at Ashbourne Farms
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Farm Happenings at Ashbourne Farms

Farm Happenings for January 22, 2020

Posted on January 17th, 2020
The last two weeks, we have been going crazy trying to get the seeding lists put together and seeds ordered. Confirming all of the CSA stops and figuring out what crops we should scrap and what new ones we should try. Rethinking a few of our crop rotations and if we will have enough space. Winters1 read more »

Farm Happenings for January 8, 2020

Posted on January 2nd, 2020
With Christmas and New Years over, the season has officially started...almost. Seeding for spring and summer has begun, but the work days are still slow. We have seeded peppers and are ready to plant tomatoes and onions next week. Okra and squash seeds have been ordered. We have met with the hemp p1 read more »

Farm Happenings for December 18, 2019

Posted on December 13th, 2019
We are now offering meat to CSA customers to purchase and pickup with your CSA share! We will be offering: Grassfed Ground Beef   1#pkg   $7.35/lb  Available 50 Grassfed Beef 3/1 Patties     1#pkg    $7.85/lb   Available 50 Mild1 read more »

Farm Happenings for December 4, 2019

Posted on November 27th, 2019
This is the first the first week of the WINTER CSA!!! We are so excited for this season and happy that you decided to join us! We hopr that you enjoy the experience of eating fresh off the farm and trying new and different veggies (if you are new to CSA). Everything outside is dead and brown, but o1 read more »

Farm Happenings for November 19, 2019

Posted on November 15th, 2019
This is it. The last week of our Fall CSA and the final week of our regular 28 week CSA program. I have really enjoyed this growing season. We have tried a lot of new techniques for all kinds of various farming tasks. Some we will continue to use next year and some we now know do not work. Since sw1 read more »

Farm Happenings for November 12, 2019

Posted on November 8th, 2019
The season is almost over.  This is the last week for Bi-Weekly shares and for everybody that signed up to receive a CSA share every week, you still have one more week to go! It's sad to see the season end, but it is awesome to know that this year's CSA program was record breaking!!!! We had a1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 29, 2019

Posted on October 25th, 2019
Another Greenhouse is planted and ready to go for the Winter CSA Program! We have removed all of the heirloom Tomatoes from Greenhouse 1 and  spent the vast majority of this week turning it over and planting new crops for winter. We have lots of spinach, peas, Lettuces, and green onions ready1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 22, 2019

Posted on October 18th, 2019
I love this time of year!!! Everything is being put to rest; fields are being cover cropped and greenhouses are being emptied out before starting our winter plantings. Two of our four greenhouses are completely ready for the end of the Fall CSA and Winter CSA. We have radishes, spinach, arugula, tu1 read more »

Farm Happenings for October 8, 2019

Posted on October 4th, 2019
What a wonderful week!! We had an amazing CSA dinner with an awesome hay ride and pumpkin patch! We ended the week with some wonderful weather today with a chance of rain this weekend!! We will begin planting to the winter CSA this up coming week, by planting kales, broccoli, and cauliflower in the1 read more »