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Farm Happenings at Jade Family Farm
Euclidean Geometry
When I was a lad in high school, they made me take geometry class. In it we learned that a "line" is an imaginary shape with no width and no beginning and no end, which I could never really wrap my mind around. Perhaps that explains my string of B minuses and C's. Anyways, after m1 read more »
Is this a strawberry which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
Hello again! Strawberries are ripe and looking (and tasting) good, although we can only hope we don't get too much rain or other nasty strawberry weather today (Sunday). Picking strawberries is a slow endeavor, and frankly not my favorite, but luckily they start to ripen just when summe1 read more »
Is it the end of May already? It is!
And that means it is time for us to stop lounging about and start harvesting and packing your shares. The above photo was taken a few weeks ago, when the strawberries were just starting to flower. So far the crop looks good, although it's never too late for something to go horribly wron1 read more »
The End of the Season
Alas, all things must come to an end, and this week is the last delivery of the season. Instead of taking your box home, please, if possible, just take the bag with you and leave the empty box. Site hosts, we will come around the next day or two and pick up the empties.
This is always a1 read more »
How Did THAT Happen?
We had something strange happen with our sweet potatoes this year. Although it was a bad year verging on awful for many crops, the sweet potatoes in the main field did extremely well and grew much larger than we expected them to. I put the glove in the opening photo to give you a sense1 read more »
What is all this stuff?
Good Morning!
Someone pointed out to me recently that many of the nuances of some of the more unusual vegetables we grow may be unfamiliar to most people outside the small ghetto of vegetable farmers and produce afficianados. Probably true. So, I thought I would take a few m1 read more »
The unvarnished truth
The other night I was looking at my Instagram feed, which consists mostly of other vegetable farms, so that I can see what they're up to, and I started to be plagued with feelings of self doubt and inadequacy-- those pictures showed one gorgeous farm and perfect harvest after another! Then I1 read more »
Sign o' the Times
Well, we finally installed a sign for our farm lane, so that anyone who wants to visit us will have an easy time knowing where to go. It only took us 13 and a half years after moving here in 2005 to do so. However, it is an exceptionally beautiful sign, if I say so myself. Its pic1 read more »
round, mottled and sweet
This has not been a good year for fruit. It was rainy. Too rainy. So, our Asian pears, normally the pride of the orchard, have been producing very scantily, in terms of fruit you would actually like to eat. However, one variety really came through for us and tastes delicious1 read more »
About the farm
Jade Family Farm is a certified organic farm at the foot of the Tuscarora
Mountain in Juniata county, Pennsylvania. We grow a wide range of vegetables and
fruitson about 10 acres, with the balance of the 120 acre farm in pasture, hayfields, ad
woodlands. We sell our produce chiefly through a Community supported Agriculture
program serving the State College and Harrisburg areas, as well as several area farmers'
markets. We are a rue family farm, with three generations and several branches of the
family directly involved in day to day operations.
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Mountain in Juniata county, Pennsylvania. We grow a wide range of vegetables and
fruitson about 10 acres, with the balance of the 120 acre farm in pasture, hayfields, ad
woodlands. We sell our produce chiefly through a Community supported Agriculture
program serving the State College and Harrisburg areas, as well as several area farmers'
markets. We are a rue family farm, with three generations and several branches of the
family directly involved in day to day operations.