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Farm Happenings at Mad Radish Farm
Broccoli is in, Peas are on their way!
The last farm note was talking about how dry the field was, and now we're getting another good rain, expected to last most of the weekend. I'm grateful for it, as we do need a bit more. We've been battling pests big and small in the field over this week...many of the beans that we had just seeded w1 read more »
Potato, Poe-tah-toe; Tomato, Toe-mah-toe
Last week we hilled and mulched the potatoes - all 3600 feet of them - and I snapped this photo at the beginning of the week. I like to take pictures of the rows periodically to track their growth. It is hard to tell that the plants are growing sometimes when you look at them each day. Tomatoes wen1 read more »
Summer crops going to the field this week!
Despite cool May temperatures, we're going full speed ahead with summer crop planting this weekend and into the coming week. The field tomatoes spent their first night outside last night. I was definitely a bit uneasy, as tomatoes aren't too keen to go below 45 degrees for very long. But the foreca1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 11, 2021
On the farm this week...
This is always a challenging time of year because it seems that everything needs to be planted, and everything also needs to be weeded. So, we've been chipping away at what feels like an endless to do list, but we're getting there! There's still *one* bed of onions left to1 read more »
About the farm
Mad Radish is a small diversified farm in Dover PA. We raise organically-grown produce for our CSA, markets and farm store. Our mission is to grow nutritious food for our community while managing the land for soil health, plant vitality, and species diversity. To support this mission, we also raise pastured eggs and chicken. We plan to expand to lamb and beef in coming years.
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