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Farm Happenings at Hawkins Family Farm
Farm Happenings for April 13, 2024
Signs of spring are popping up all over the farm: accelerated plant growth, meadowlark and red-winged blackbird song, the first flush of dandelion blooms, and a newborn calf gamboling behind his mother in the pasture. Another sure sign--our days are getting busier and busier! In fact, I need to kee1 read more »
Farm Happenings for February 15, 2024
My dad and I spent most of the day working outside yesterday as the temperature climbed to 64 degrees—on February 9! We’ve been making use of the unseasonably warm weather to continue working on the construction of eight hoop houses. It’s remarkable how much more we can accomplish1 read more »
Farm Happenings for January 18, 2024
Winter weather has arrived on the farm! We've been busy preparing for snow, ice, wind, and single digit temperatures. This means moving the laying hens from the pasture to their winter quarters in the barn, out of the wind, where they enjoy scratching in a deep bedding of wood chips. The pigs, also1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 22, 2023
We’re winding down!
It’s the last week of the weekly CSA shares! Although we will be shaking things up with a new monthly farm share offering (details coming soon), the farm is still gradually shutting down as scheduled. Cold conditions are creeping in! The natural product of a la1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 9, 2023
Okay, so winter took a bit of a shot at us this week.
Following a week of warm fall bliss, good old Indiana weather turned around with a gesture that was met with a lot of mixed approval. Snow! Snow in October! You’ve heard about farm chores in the rain, residual wildfire smoke, and ext1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 2, 2023
It’s still spook-tober!!
I mean, have you seen the pie pumpkins that are available? Nothing says Spooky-Fall-Tober like purchasing a pumpkin from a farm share that you plan on eating! Fresh thyme and rosemary. Sweet potatoes and shallots. Apples, garlic, and all sorts of squash (not a bad com1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 26, 2023
Anyone else feeling the fall spooks?
It’s fall-tober, folks. Few of us can deny it. The rate of leaves changing is steadily picking up pace. Rainy days have gone from sweet moments of temporary relief to long stretches of dodging puddles at the risk of turning fresh warm socks into soggy wet1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 19, 2023
We’re actually doing it!
It’s all Octobered out out here. Leaves are dipping into their choice of color. Barns are sprinkled along the side of State Road 114, looking good amongst the shift of old corn stalks and trimmed soybeans. Brown, yellow, green, and a big block of red benea1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 12, 2023
It was a warm breeze with orange autumn skies this week.
We experienced weather that did a good job of knocking words like “better” or “best” right out of my system, because who can predict higher temperatures like the mid-80s when October should be steadily bringing d1 read more »
About the farm
Hawkins Family Farm is a fourth-generation farm in Wabash County, Indiana. We raise grains, livestock, and vegetables in rotation, using the health and wholeness of soils, waters, plants, animals, and people as our standard—whole farm agriculture at the confluence of nature and culture.
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