Farm Happenings at Park Ridge Organics
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Farm Happenings at Park Ridge Organics

Toe-may-tow...Toe-mah-tow

Posted on August 27th, 2019
  Hey Tomato Heads! Tis the season.  We are harvesting thousands of toe-may-tows now-a-days: cherries, romas, pastes and slicers.  Tomato season is long awaited and can be short here in Wisco so enjoy them while you can!  Check out this weeks FARM VIDEO with Tomato footage. 1 read more »

Oh Sweet Peppers of Mine

Posted on August 21st, 2019
  Hey hey its WEEK 10 of 20!  That's the halfway point of the standard season shares.  Isn't it amazing to eat fresh, seasonal produce.  Yum yum.  This week we are enjoying the fruits of our labor in the form of bright ripe sweet peppers, juicy tomato morsels and a ground c1 read more »

Exotic Fruits (Veggies) and Gourmet Shallots

Posted on August 13th, 2019
  It's already the middle of August!  Time flies when you are eating fresh veggies.   We are happy to report that the fields are enjoying the rain we got last week along with a break in the temps.  Tomatoes are looking great and ripening...slowly but surely.  Next week1 read more »

The Betwixt Time of the Season

Posted on August 7th, 2019
  Another beautiful week on the farm and we got rain!  A whole 1.5 inches of it over the last week.  That's perfect (for now!).  So much getting done in this "inbetween" time of the season.  The final seeds have been sown in the greenhouse.  The seeding schedule for th1 read more »

The Garlic Journey

Posted on July 30th, 2019
  The Garlic Journey This week we are loving the cool down in temps and wishing for more rain.  We stayed dry this past weekend and just enjoyed the lightening show from a far.  Our farm dinner with Braise was a HUGE success and we had a beautiful night on the farm with amazing food1 read more »

Quarter of a Season Update

Posted on July 23rd, 2019
  Well well well...it's already the end of July which means the season is a quarter past!  You are probably already seeing the summer changes in our veggie offerings.  Out with the peas and in with the beans.  Out with the radishes and in with the cucumbers.  Soon, very soo1 read more »

Sheriff Bunchie on Bunch Patrol

Posted on July 16th, 2019
Hey Hey Hey Everyone!   This week there are a few bunched items in the shares and we have a special video message.   CLICK HERE to see SHERIFF BUNCHIE talk about how to store your veggie bunches!   All is well at the farm and HOT HOT HOT.  The crew has been starting at 6am1 read more »

July: The month of catching up!

Posted on July 9th, 2019
What a great little dry spell we just had!  Finally we were able to catch up on transplanting and later this week the fall carrots, fall beets and final bean planting will get seeded in the fields.  Phew!  There are still thousands of plants to go into the fields over the next few we1 read more »

Rainy Days and Mondays...

Posted on July 2nd, 2019
...always make for muddy fields!  But they don't get us down.  Well okay this much rain is starting to cause some issues at the farm.  The biggest issue is the WEEDS!   Oh my, they are loving life.  We are doing our best to keep up but it is not easy when they grow 101 read more »