Farm Happenings at Bayfield Foods
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Farm Happenings at Bayfield Foods

Sept 11 Farm Happenings

Posted on September 9th, 2020
Greetings from all of your Bayfield Foods veggie farmers! I finally got a pic of most of us together while we were packing veggie boxes this past week, before we all hustled back to our farms to keep plugging away. From left to right, there's Monarda (helping at Yoman Farm), Rob (Twisting Twig), Jo1 read more »

Sept 4 Farm Happenings

Posted on September 3rd, 2020
Happy September!  With nights in the 40's and days barely getting above 70 now, fall is truly in the air.    Early plantings of beans, carrots, sweet corn, and more have been mowed and plowed, those fields ready to be seeded with more rye and vetch cover crop seed to overwinter. 1 read more »

August 28 Farm Happening

Posted on August 27th, 2020
Welcome to week 14 of the 22 week summer season! Wow, does time sure fly by.  If you have signed up for a Plus Add-on, this week you will be receiving a jam or jelly from Bayfield Apple Company as well as a bakery good from Starlit Kitchen. This week on the farm, a new record was set.  N1 read more »

August 20 Farm Happenings

Posted on August 20th, 2020
A note for those of you who get the Plus Add-on:  the Plus items this week will be jam from the Bayfield Apple Company, as well as granola from Starlit Kitchen. As the summer winds to a close, the pace has picked up substantially here at the farm.  During the day, we are still basically p1 read more »

8.14.20 Farm Happenings

Posted on August 13th, 2020
This time of year on the farm, we hardly have any time to do anything except harvest.  There's barely any open ground on the farm, as fields are either planted in a cover crop (like this beautiful flowering buckwheat field, just buzzing with pollinators!) or veggies.  We spend the majorit1 read more »

August 7 Farm Happenings

Posted on August 6th, 2020
This time of year, there's hardly much time to get anything else done on the farm except harvesting. All of the early hoophouse crops we planted in the spring continue to bless us with their with bounty, and our field crops have hit cruising altitude. Successive plantings of most of the field crops1 read more »

July 31 Farm Happenings

Posted on July 30th, 2020
As usual, a few logistics to cover first: 1.  We've had several requests for bulk tomatoes from folks who want to make some salsa or freeze tomatoes for soup later, so this week we'll begin offering 5# bags of our organic tomatoes as an option to include in your veggie boxes.  As the seas1 read more »

July 24 Farm Happenings

Posted on July 23rd, 2020
It's hard to believe, but we're 8 weeks into the CSA season already! The Plus share this week will be Bayfield Apple Company Apple Jam. Here on the farm, we've been catching up on weeding.  Just yesterday we finished hoeing the brassica field - cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage plants - and t1 read more »

July 17 Farm Happenings

Posted on July 16th, 2020
As usual, some logistics to cover first.  I've got good news on the veggie front!  Now that field veggies are coming ready, we're able to offer a limited amount of additional veggie boxes.  If you missed out on ordering a veggie box this spring but still would like to get one, now's1 read more »