Farm Happenings at Local Color Farm and Fiber
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Farm Happenings at Local Color Farm and Fiber

Farm Happenings for July 28, 2022

Posted on July 24th, 2022
Welcome to Week 9 and heat wave week!  Despite the forecasted 98 degrees, it might be one the busiest weeks ahead on the farm! Lots of early morning and evening planting to catch up on, plus we make extra chore rounds to check up on the animals, and lots of irrigation work! Luckily, our farm i1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 21, 2022

Posted on July 18th, 2022
Welcome to Week 8! The season is really starting to turn, with lots of summer crops coming in (finally!) and the start of winter seeding this week. We pulled the last of the garlic out of the field (about 2 weeks later than usual, due to the cold spring) and will be planting that area out into radi1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 14, 2022

Posted on July 11th, 2022
Welcome to Week 7! We are finally rolling into summer! Lots of irrigating and planting winter crops happening this week. We are pulling out the rest of the garlic this week, including most of our braiding garlic! Due to the rainy spring, the garlic field is weedier then I would like to admit, but t1 read more »

Farm Happenings for July 7, 2022

Posted on July 3rd, 2022
Welcome to Week 6 of CSA season!  Gentle reminder: Please pick up your CSA shares within the pick up time period. Our pick location partners are generous enough to let us use their space and we need to accommodate their needs and stick to the time frame that we agreed to at the beginning of th1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 30, 2022

Posted on June 26th, 2022
Welcome to Week 5! It went from 50 degrees and raining to 90 degrees and very sunny from last weekend to this weekend. Plants don't love such a big temperature swing, so we having been working hard all weekend to keep things well irrigated, as well as doing a big seeding for fall and winter crops.1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 23, 2022

Posted on June 19th, 2022
Welcome to Week 4! Looks like its finally starting to warm up this season! The 10 day forecast is looking quite promising and we are beginning to plant crops for fall and winter. However, after the coldest, rainiest, most challenging spring in my memory, we will need to delay the flower CSA by a we1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 16, 2022

Posted on June 12th, 2022
Welcome to Week 3 of CSA Season! More new veggies are making their debut each week, despite the cold and rainy days and we are starting garlic harvest this week! This means garlic harvest and cleaning parties are back! If you would like to come visit and help, we will be harvesting and cleaning gar1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 9, 2022

Posted on June 5th, 2022
Welcome to Week Two of CSA season! Many people pick up every other week, so this is the first pickup for some of our members.  Just a reminder for everyone to please pick up your shares at Seattle Downtown and Field Bar during the pick up window. Both of these businesses have been generous eno1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 2, 2022

Posted on May 29th, 2022
Welcome to Week One of our 2022 CSA season! We are so glad that you are here and interested in eating seasonally while supporting a small farm. If this is your first time being a CSA member, we will be sharing various tips throughout the first month to help you maximize our veggie enjoyment. If you1 read more »