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Farm Happenings at Featherstone Farm
Mid-Season Updates + Winter Sign Up is Open!
Greetings CSA Members,
I am writing with a number of midseason updates, and with some very timely information on our upcoming Winter CSA program.
2020 has been an unusual year in most every way. Thank goodness, we have managed to stay healthy here at Featherstone Farm. Much of my1 read more »
Farmer Jack on Showing Up
A few weeks back, I posed this question in your CSA newsletter: “How does it feel for me, as a 25 year veteran farmer, to see Featherstone Farm in such a solid, happy place, even as the world around us seems to be coming apart at the seams?”
In that writing I offered a bit1 read more »
From James and Our Warehouse!
Good morning all! My name is James, and I am the Warehouse Coordinator at Featherstone Farm. I am writing from my desk this morning trying to compose my thoughts after sending out our largest wholesale order of the year, barely fitting into 2 semi-trailers, a straight truck, and a sprinter V1 read more »
From Ellen, Our Direct Seed Crop Manager!
Thank you for choosing to be a part of the Featherstone CSA this year. Your support helps us in so many ways. I have had a lot of time on the tractor lately as I finished the final planting of the 15 acres of carrots we grow, and have spent much of that time reflecting on the year. To say th1 read more »
Nathan on Warm Weather Crops and the Harvest
The farm is entering an exciting transition period over the next coming weeks. As early crops like Zuchinni, Spring Beets, and Lettuce slow down, our warm weather crops ramp up. Sweet watermelons, and juicy tomatoes are looking healthy and hearty in the field. It won’t be long before w1 read more »
Abby on our Field Production Crew and Your Weekly Veggies!
Thank you for choosing to be part of our CSA this year. As the leader of the production team here at Featherstone, I really love seeing the crops we've been working so hard on going into your boxes. We love hearing your feedback and knowing the work we do is appreciated and the food we grow is1 read more »
A Note from Farmer Jack on the Season and our World
Greetings CSA Members! Shelby’s wonderful writing in last week’s newsletter was, for me, the perfect antidote to the kind of semi-frantic, all-over-the-map kind of thinking I’ve been doing over the past several weeks, even months. Shelby reminds all of us- espec1 read more »
Week 3: Shelby on a Day's Harvest
There are some details about farm work that slip away when you are far from it. I did not plan to be back at Featherstone this summer, but coronavirus disrupted plans. My day job as a graduate student is now done over Zoom, compressed for the moment into two-dimensions. I wanted my old job b1 read more »
Week 2: Full Swing around the Farm!
Greetings CSA members!
After a whirlwind of a spring, life on the farm is finally arriving to some form of normalacy here at Featherstone. We're excited to be back into the full swing of the season. The hustle and bustle of tractors and trucks zipping around the field in some beautiful1 read more »
About the farm
Founded in 1994, Featherstone Farm is a 250 acre certified organic farm located in the bluff country of Rushford, Minnesota. Our farm produces a diverse variety of high quality fresh market fruits and vegetables for distribution to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members as well as to local co-ops, restaurants and wholesalers around the region. We offer summer and winter CSA shares and deliver from June to March.
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