Farm Happenings at Hillcrest Farms
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Farm Happenings at Hillcrest Farms

Farm Happenings for February 28, 2024

Posted on February 25th, 2024
Our nursery does enjoy the lengthening daylight hours (today at 11 hrs, 1 min!), and we all know not to plant outside despite the warming temperatures. We are still doing infrastructure repairs and improvements during the warmer days and transplanting indoors while it's windy and not so n1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 21, 2024

Posted on February 18th, 2024
Hello! Sadly, the Baby Lettuce and Asian Greens are still not ready for harvest this week. We filled too many orders in January and now must wait for the resupply! I plan on some major infrastructure improvements to help alleviate this bottleneck that occurs every February...it is so pred1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 14, 2024

Posted on February 11th, 2024
This week marks mid-February, our call to start Tomato and Pepper plants for transplant indoors mid April! Historically I note this activity coincides with the demise of our storage onions... so sad. I have a very few left in the temperature controlled cooler, and if your CSA order was sh1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 7, 2024

Posted on February 4th, 2024
This week's menu will be a little short as the balance of the Winter catches up and the first Spring transplants are still 3-4 weeks out. Predictably, the crops will accelerate their maturity; Friday we observed  1 minute of daylight beyond 10 hours, and today we are already up to 6 minut1 read more »