Farm Happenings at Kilt Farm
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Farm Happenings at Kilt Farm

The turning of a season

Posted on August 30th, 2019
In the farming world, the doorway to fall is not the kids going back to school and the leaves changing. It's the harvest of melons, winter squash and red bell peppers. This week we started harvesting the melons and winter squash with the red peppers hopefully right around the corner. Parts of the f1 read more »

Late August Magic

Posted on August 21st, 2019
Here we find ourselves in late August and the farm is producing like gangbusters. We are running at full steam ahead to keep up with the work of the farm. On any day of the week we are harvesting, washing, packing, weeding, seeding and looking forward to the next thing.  It has been an amazing1 read more »

Moving into a new phase of the year.

Posted on August 15th, 2019
Each week brings new challenges, new learning and new experiences on a farm. Farming in Boulder County brings some unique challenges such as trying to staff a farm in an area with such a high cost of living. Farms are not naturally places where living wages are the norm but in Boulder County Colora1 read more »

Melons and Garlic, oh my!

Posted on August 9th, 2019
It is August on the farm and we are in full flow mode. Sometimes we are running as fast as we can to get the food out of the field, cleaned and ready to go. Other times we are planning and triaging the long to-do list. The one thing's for sure; we are always moving.  This week we are excited t1 read more »

The flow of summer crops is upon us.

Posted on August 2nd, 2019
Hello and welcome to August. This is an exciting time on the farm as all of our hard work of the season starts to bear fruit, literally. Our fields are full of carbon sequestering plants that are heavy with fruit. This runs the gamut from summer squashes to watermelons, peppers, eggplants and winte1 read more »