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Farm Happenings at Fifth Crow Farm
7 weeks left of the 2021 CSA Season...
Ellie inspects our mini crop of Jack-O-Lanterns. They're sadly too big to transport to your CSA sites, but we did grow a few to donate to the kid's schools.
Hello Shareholders,
REMINDER- please check your csa confirmation e-mail for your CSA pick up time. Boxes that aren't picked up duri1 read more »
Farm News This Week
Above is an updated photo of Teddy and Shadow our Livestock Guardian Pups in training. It's hard to get the perspective right to accurately represent them in a photo. They're now a bit over 8month and HUGE! Also just about the sweetest and gentlest ever despite their enormous size1 read more »
9 weeks left for the 2021 CSA Season!
pictured above: What's left of the upper Bean Lakes which feed Bean Hollow Reservoir. No one that I've spoken with recalls is this low in living memory.
NO BAGELS THIS WEEK, BUT CHEF TIM'S BAGELS WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK
I'm writing this via generator as we weather the 2nd weekend power outage1 read more »
Farm News November 19th
Pictured Above: Juan Carlos, one of our full time Tractor Operators transplants brassicas that will be harvested this Winter.
We continue to pull dry beans and have started threshing some varieties. Many or our Winter Squash are ready to harvest and cure and we may even have some Buttercup Sq1 read more »
Farm News for September 9, 2021
Bean Harvest 2021 has begun! Pictured above, my daughter Ellie stands on a pile of drying Mitla Black beans awaiting threshing. Everyone is working double time right now trying to get all the beans pulled before they begin to shatter and still keep up with peak harvest of all the other1 read more »
Farm Newss for August 26, 2021
Hello Everyone.. The tomatoes are coming in more and more each week. Hopefully next week we can add Green Zebras, Beefsteaks, and Kakao (a "black" tomato) to the list. We're also starting to bring in more melons and different varieties of apples. I would've added more this week, b1 read more »
Farm News for August 19, 2021
School's back!! ... and not soon enough for us as we struggle to keep up with bounty time. Apples are coming in, the first pears are ready, the raspberries are bumping, the strawberries are still going and we just picked the first melons and tomatoes! Harvest, harvest, harvest time.&nbs1 read more »
Farm News for August 14, 2021
We're bursting at the seams! Apples are starting to ripen, we just picked our first pears, raspberries are still cranking as are strawberries, and the first tomatoes are ready (and super delicious this year to boot). As there aren't many dry farmed early girls quite yet, I've left them1 read more »
About the farm
Fifth Crow Farm is a dynamic and diversified organic farm in Pescadero, CA. Founded in 2008 with a shoestring budget, a supportive local community, and ambitious dreams, we strive to bring eaters the highest quality, best tasting, and most nutritious food possible while creating a healthy, fulfilling, and fair work environment. We are situated in the Cloverdale Valley, 45 miles from San Francisco and 35 miles from Santa Cruz. We operate on 150 acres: 60 acres of row crops, about 5 acres of cut flowers, and a 35 variety apple orchard, a pear orchard, and a pastured egg operation consisting of 2 flocks of 350 beautiful ladies – all heritage breeds. We are committed to building an agriculture that is economically viable, socially just, and ecologically sound. To us this means stewarding our land in a way that not only respects but improves habitat for wildlife and builds better soil for future farmers. We are certified organic by CCOF and Animal Welfare Approved.
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