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Farm Happenings at Joy Haven Farm
Farm Happenings for October 7, 2022
Fall has finally arrived in Alabama! High tunnels are full of fall crops like lettuce, arugula, Poc Choi, radishes, cabbage and kale.
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Final Week of Spring/Summer CSA
We are feeling very blessed as we prepare for our last Spring/Summer CSA Delivery! We will be harvesting all peppers, tomatoes, eggplant for this delivery. Peppers and tomatoes can be frozen and eggplant makes a great dip (Baba Ganoush) or eggplant Parmesan. We will be missing these veggies soon!&n1 read more »
Week #11 Spring/Summer CSA
This week its all about the peppers! The peppers are fairing the best in the extreme heat we have experienced the last couple weeks. With only 2 weeks left of Spring/Summer CSA you will be getting a lot of tomatoes and peppers. Peppers keep well in fridge but I also like to cut up peppers the way I1 read more »
Week #10 Spring/Summer CSA
The weather has been brutal the last 2 weeks and it looks like we are going to get the same extreme high temps again this week! All the plants are showing stress especially the tomatoes in the high tunnels.
On a good note Randle Farm is harvesting organically grown sweet corn this week and the blue1 read more »
Spring/Summer CSA Week #9
The heirloom tomato Stripped German has really been showing out this year as far as size! The first ones on the plants have been very large, unfortunate the thing about heirlooms is they do not produce as many tomatoes on a plant as a hybrid and of course the slicer tomatoes always produce the most1 read more »
Spring/Summer CSA Week #8
Get out your favorite eggplant recipes because they are gonna be coming in strong the next few weeks. The tomatoes and peppers are looking promising and some will be getting them in their share this week. We planted a second succession of green beans (Italian Flat) that were suppose to be ready to1 read more »
Spring/Summer CSA Week #7
With all the rain and warm weather the peppers plants are starting to shine! This will be our first week harvesting shishitos so a few of you will receive in your share, by week 2 & 3 we won't be able to keep up with the picking! And the jalapeños are loaded and we just waiting fo1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 25, 2022
Week #6 and the half way point of our Spring/Summer CSA.
Things are beginning to heat up and those plants that love it hot are starting to shine, like eggplants and shisito peppers! We will also be busy, busy harvesting green beans to go in shares this week. We also will be including some orga1 read more »
Week #5 Spring/Summer CSA 2022
Nothing says summer like yellow squash and zucchini! Its the first harvest so we will have a limited amount available for this weeks delivery but don't worry there will be plenty more over the next few weeks. Green bean harvest will begin soon and will be ready for week #6.
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About the farm
Joy Haven Farm is a small Certified Naturally Grown market farm located in Shorter, AL, just north of Montgomery. We are entering our ninth growing season and strive for sustainability. We are currently offering Spring/Summer and Fall Farm Stand Session that includes our fresh seasonal vegetables and fruit. Add-ons such as eggs, yogurt, granola, coffee and meat from a neighboring sustainable farm can be delivered with each weeks share. We also provide seasonal vegetables to a number of local restaurants. We are thankful for what we have been entrusted with and will never use pesticides, insecticides, synthetic fertilizers or gmo seeds. Our goal is to leave our little piece of this world better than we found it.
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