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Farm Happenings at Hillcrest Farms
Farm Happenings for February 28, 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
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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
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
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 »
Farm Happenings for January 31, 2024
This past week we finished the "micro nursery" , approximately 200 sq ft, and can warm the early flats to an ambient temperature that will facilitate germination of seed crops before a normal planting schedule. We can hold the seedlings in there until they are mature enough to handle the1 read more »
Farm Happenings for January 24, 2024
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In about two weeks our Latitude Zone will finally meet the threshold of 10 hours of daylight needed by most plant life to activate photosynthesis and begin to size. (Today we are at 9 hours and 35 minutes). Meanwhile, some of the Leafy Greens like lettuces, kales and asian greens1 read more »
Farm Happenings for January 17, 2024
Propagation begins in earnest next week, and we still need to accomplish infrastructure improvements in the nursery before that flurry of activity begins! We'll start the long term sweet potato slips and short term Microgreens this week, and I'm waiting for the disease test results f1 read more »
Farm Happenings for January 10, 2024
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We are excited to begin the New year with our first CSA distribution for Winter/ Spring 2024. Yes, I said Spring! January is a little dicey anyway, as we transition from fresh greens that were transplanted last October and Storage crops to the new growth that comes in mid March. Today we are1 read more »
Farm Happenings for December 6, 2023
Mother Nature is giving us that little extra grace period so we can wrap things up for winter production, and I can take a couple of weeks to recover from outpatient surgery on December 14. I already have the four books ordered as I intend to read a lot!
Winter Deliveries begin the week of January1 read more »
About the farm
A four season, chemical free grower in southern Michigan. We use protected culture and outdoor cultivation to provide market fresh produce to our customers 12 months/ year.
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