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

Farm Happenings for February 27th Week

Posted on February 23rd, 2023
The early tomato crop is almost ready to plant!  Another 10 day or so and they'll head to the high tunnels where we can protect them from those late winter/early spring cold snaps which we know will come!  We are on high alert these days looking for brief windows of opportunity to open up1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 20th Week

Posted on February 16th, 2023
While it is too sloppy, muddy to do anything in the outdoor fields, the high tunnel beds are primed and ready to plant.  Every week we prep new beds and plant more veggies.  The house in the picture just got planted with another round of carrots, beets, and spinach.  Hopefully the fi1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 13th Week

Posted on February 9th, 2023
Laura and Mari seen here starting our early lunchbox pepper trays and the early tomato seedlings are off to a great start!  Next we will get into some heavy seeding with lots of trays of broccoli, kale, collards, and more for field crops.   The crew continues the large task of weedin1 read more »

Farm Happenings for February 6th Week

Posted on February 2nd, 2023
Laura seen here bringing in the beet harvest!  We have lots of crops planted and growing while we squeeze as much as possible out of the overwintered crops.  There is always a lull in production this time of year, but we will start having more and more things as the days get longer and wa1 read more »

Farm Happenings for January 30th Week

Posted on January 26th, 2023
The tomatoes are started!  We have 2,800 seeds planted and thinking happy thoughts on the heat mats in our nursery house.  We have to be patient though.  It'll be late May to early June before they are ready.   Everything grows SO SLOW this time of year!  We are gettin1 read more »

Farm Happenings forJanuary 23rd Week

Posted on January 24th, 2023
Everything grows SO SLOW this time of year!  We are getting some kale from North Carolina farms this week so we can let ours take a break and hopefully size up a bit.   NEW item!  GA Extra Virgin Olive Oil!  Give it a try! We have several varieties of organic apples this we1 read more »

Farm Happenings for January 23rd Week

Posted on January 19th, 2023
Everything grows SO SLOW this time of year!  We are getting some kale from North Carolina farms this week so we can let ours take a break and hopefully size up a bit.   We have lots of fun offerings this week with new citrus and several varieties of organic apples.  There are no1 read more »

Farm Happenings for January 16th Week

Posted on January 12th, 2023
Planting for the new year has begun!  The picture shows a new crop of lettuce going in.  We are also planting new crops of kale, collards, chard, spinach, arugula and more.   This time of year we can only grow various types of roots and greens in our area.  The tomatoes, be1 read more »

Farm Happenings for January 9th Week

Posted on January 5th, 2023
Crops that I thought died from the arctic blast have come back nicely.  This arugula looked completely dead, but it had enough of a little green sprig of life to bounce back fast.  Even the carrots that were not covered outside did ok!  I thought for sure they were gone, but nope! En1 read more »