Farm Happenings at Spoon Full Farm
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Farm Happenings at Spoon Full Farm

Holy Shi... itake mushrooms!

Posted on July 5th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, B vitamins. Complete protein. Cancer-prevention and immunity-boosting. More and more, we are learning that mushrooms are medicine. On top of that, they're exceptionally delicious. That's why we now offer local, organic shiitakes for your CSA. The only catch? We need at1 read more »

Cooking, calving, caring, touring.

Posted on June 27th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, Week 2! If we could, we would cook every item of produce we grow, for you and your family. But we don't have time, and you're probably a better cook than most of us, anyway (except for Geoff - he's a wizard). What we can do is offer some homegrown recipes, and some guid1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 26, 2019

Posted on June 21st, 2019
Welcome to the 2019 Summer CSA! As you know, this is the first vegetable box of the season and we are so happy to bring you some delicious, nutritious food.  Our spring was spent starting seeds in the greenhouse, prepping beds and planting out in the field. It is an incredibly busy, hectic tim1 read more »

Tourists

Posted on June 15th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, After a wonderful event on Thursday night in madrona, highlighting the soil-carbon growth and research going on at other farms (Marin Carbon Project and White Oak Pastures), and here at Spoon Full, we are re-gathering our energy for the marathon-sprint that is the growi1 read more »

Carbon Foodprint, Farm Tour, Summer Heat

Posted on June 6th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, Next week is big: new calves will be born on the farm. Baby hot peppers will begin to ripen. On Thursday evening, we "five spoons" (farm managers) will present together about some sweet data about soil carbon, on our farm and others. On Saturday, we're hosting a gu1 read more »

Heating Up - June!

Posted on May 30th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, At this point in the year, the speed of cumulative plant growth in our garden and pastures (not to mention in the wild woods) far outpaces our cumulative human speed of movement. Still, we must try to keep up with the plants. We're cutting hay, hoeing weeds, and plantin1 read more »

New Swag

Posted on May 24th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, We finally did it - we made tote bags. But not just any totes. These totes are totes spectacular. Totes McGoats. All-natural, made in California, organic. If you buy one of these Farm Fresh totes for $25, then you'll get 10% off Spoon Full produce at any of our market b1 read more »

Happiness is for the birds

Posted on May 15th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, last week we got 200 more chickens at the farm. they came from a hatchery in idaho that we didn’t realize was, to put it mildly, a poultry hellhole. many of the birds have the top part of their beaks cut in half, and many had beak rings that didn’t let them1 read more »

Honey for Mothers

Posted on May 8th, 2019
Dear Spoon Full Farm Family, Out of all the relationships between living beings, motherhood may be the most sacred and profound. From motherhood grows unconditional love, which allowed mammals to develop more sophisticated cultures than any other lifeform on earth (except perhaps fungi!).  Thi1 read more »