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Farm Happenings at Featherstone Farm
A Note on Skill
I divided this summer roughly evenly between two jobs: the first, as a farmworker at Featherstone on a harvest crew that calls itself El Poder del Norte (The Power of the North); the second, as a rookie PhD student in the Sociology Department of Princeton University. I worked on El Poder del Norte&1 read more »
The Story of Ben's Beans!
It’s that time of year when the farm delegates newsletter writing to different workers here at Featherstone. For my week, I decided to do some shameless self-promotion. Some of you who were members of our winter CSA last year may remember ordering heirloom dry beans as an add on i1 read more »
A Note From Your Tomato and Melon Crop Manager!
I’d like to do a quick (re)introduction to show you one of the farmers behind your food. My name is Stephanie and I’m one of the three Featherstone crop managers. The crops I manage are tomatoes, melons, peppers, winter squash, strawberries, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce, parsley, celeri1 read more »
August Harvest Means Melons, Tomatoes, Peppers, and More!
Hello CSA members and thank you for being a part of our farm this year! My name is Abby Benson and I am the field production coordinator at Featherstone. This is my 6th season here and my first season in this new leadership role. You may remember me from the past several years writing to1 read more »
How's Your Summer CSA Experience So Far?
Thank you for being a part of our farm this summer! It's now week 7 of our 18 week summer CSA program and we'd like to hear from you!
You probably know that we've made big changes to our program this season with our new online member platform, Harvie, and our first ever customized summer shar1 read more »
Savoring Summer on the Farm!
For six or seven seasons now I have been writing to you giving small updates of life on the farm. I once had farming explained to me as less of a pure circular rotation, and more of a corkscrew, meaning that in every rotation you find yourself in a similar, but assuredly different place.
I no1 read more »
Sweet Corn Season is On!
As a member of our farm, you get the first taste of our very best. First cucumbers of the season, first zucchini, peppers and, yes, the first sweet corn! The first July sweet corn is exceptionally hard to grow, as the European corn borer and corn earworms are most pesky this time of yea1 read more »
Hello July Harvest!
July is an extremely busy season, with many of our spring farm jobs, like seeding and planting, overlapping with our weeding and cultivating of plants already out in the fields. Of course, harvest is in full swing, too, and with the cold, wetter than average spring behind us, we're excited to1 read more »
A Week in the Life of Your CSA Farm Share
Thursday it all begins. Nathan, our operations manager and crop allocater, scouts the crops and walks the fields, assessing what is ready for harvest and, with more difficulty, how much yield is going to come off a bed of carrots or a field of cabbage. On Friday, based on what is1 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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