Farm Happenings at Rise N Shine Farm
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Farm Happenings at Rise N Shine Farm

Farm Happenings for April 1, 2019

Posted on March 29th, 2019
Spring planting continues this week with potatoes, various greens and more tomatoes in our high tunnels! read more »

Farm Happenings for March 25, 2019

Posted on March 23rd, 2019
It's Spring! I spent the long beautiful first day of Spring plowing and planting. After a long day on the tractor and running around wide open I was greeted at the end of the day by this amazing sunset. What a beautiful gift life is! A long list of crops are in the ground: potatoes (with more comin1 read more »

Farm Happenings for March 18, 2019

Posted on March 15th, 2019
The baby Lacinato Kale is looking good! We are finally getting some dry weather that will hopefully allow us to start planting in the field.  15,000 onions, 6,000 leeks, 7,000 broccoli plants and more are on the roster!! And that doesn't include all the seeding to do - carrots, new spinach, be1 read more »

Farm Happenings for March 11, 2019

Posted on March 9th, 2019
Rain, rain go away! We really need it to dry out soon so we can plow the fields and start planting outside.  But we are staying busy planting in the high tunnels and fencing in 9 acres for our chickens. Our farm road is so bad that we get stuck regularly in a couple bad spots.  It was com1 read more »

Farm Happenings for March 7, 2019

Posted on March 4th, 2019
The strawberry plants survived the flood!  They look really good after being under water for several days.  I'm very surprised. Other times we have flooded strawberries or other crops they have completely died back but then resprouted green leaves.  My guess is that they were not und1 read more »

Farm Happenings for March 4, 2019

Posted on March 1st, 2019
The strawberry plants survived the flood!  They look really good after being under water for several days.  I'm very surprised. Other times we have flooded strawberries or other crops they have completely died back but then resprouted green leaves.  My guess is that they were not und1 read more »