Farm Happenings at Meadowlark Community Farm
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Farm Happenings at Meadowlark Community Farm

Summer Share: Week 9

Posted on July 26th, 2019
It is almost peak summer. We are getting into the swing of bulk harvests - carrots and beets this week. Next week, we'll be harvesting our garlic, with storage onion harvest not long after that. We're harvesting the first sweet onions for the share this week. These onions are fresh (not cured like1 read more »

Summer Share: Week 8

Posted on July 19th, 2019
We hope that you have been staying cool. With this heat and humidity, you can almost watch the summer crops grow. Potatoes are flowering. Sweet corn is tasseling. Cherry tomatoes are beginning to blush. Peppers are fruiting. We're cleaning up spring crops, like the peas, and keeping up with the tre1 read more »

Summer Share: Week 7

Posted on July 13th, 2019
It sure does feel like July! It seems like we're spending 75% of our time harvesting. Strawberries are done - what a quick season! We're busy picking peas peas peas and even went through our first planting of green peas. The sugar snap peas this week have a few snow peas mixed in. They are both edi1 read more »

Summer Share: Week 5

Posted on July 5th, 2019
Happy belated Fourth of July!  Your farmers have been enjoying an extended visit from family. In addition to taking time to go for a swim and have evening campfires, it means we've had extra help - watching our kids, in the kitchen, and in the field.  Gabriella (our daughter who is 2.5 ye1 read more »