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Farm Happenings at Bayfield Foods
7.23.21 Farm Happenings
This week marks the 9th CSA delivery of the 2021 summer season - can you believe it?! Our efforts here at Great Oak Farm have turned mostly into cultivating/weeding and harvesting now that the crops are all well established. On the whole, the heat this week has been welcomed by the crop1 read more »
7.16.21 Farm Happenings
There used to be a time here at the farm when, by mid July, the weeds were pretty embarrassing. Sure, we still got lots of produce out of the fields, but those pesky weeds were always a thorn in our sides. Sometimes quite literally, with thistle plants poking us when we would come harve1 read more »
7.9.21 Farm Happenings
What a roller coaster of a weather week! We went from 95 degrees this weekend (with lows of 75 at night) to lows just over 40 degrees the last few nights. We heard the low in Ashland was 38 degrees on Thursday morning. THRITY EIGHT! That's danger-zone, frost-possible c1 read more »
7.1.21 Farm Happenings
Winter Share Information
It may be 90 degrees outside but at Bayfield Foods we are already planning for the winter season. Right now we are planting extra vegetables so we can expand our line of frozen vegetables this winter. This fall we will also be expanding our fall green1 read more »
6.24.21 Farm Happenings
Quick logistical note first: Please return you egg cartons! Travis at Heritage Farm would love to have them back to be reused.
Tomato season has begun! The trifecta of tastiness - tomatoes, basil, and cucumbers - is now completely in season. And it's not even July.&nb1 read more »
6.18.21 Farm Happenings
Happy Friday! We're almost there: the longest day of the year is coming right up on June 21. After the 21st, we will have wrapped up most of our planting and can focus on cultivating and harvesting here at Great Oak Farm. The only big planting we have left is our winter storage ca1 read more »
6.11.21 Farm Happenings
Whew, what a cooker of a week! It was about 90 degrees here every day this week. On the farm, that heat means the end of spinach - last week was the final spinach harvest from our farm until later this fall when we begin to harvest late summer planted beds of spinach. See you in a1 read more »
6.4.21 Farm Happenings
Welcome to week 2 of the Bayfield Foods summer CSA season!
Last week when I wrote to you, we were doubling down on freeze protection here at the farm - row covering our tender beans and winter squash, and running portable heaters in our hoophouses at night to keep cold sensitive tomatoe1 read more »
About the farm
The Bayfield Regional Food Producers Cooperative (Bayfield Foods) was formed in June of 2010 by farmers and food producers in the Chequamegon Bay region of northern Wisconsin. Our mission is to provide customers with high quality, nutritious, and sustainably-grown foods produced in Ashland and Bayfield Counties in Wisconsin.
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