Farm Happenings at The Farm at Millican Reserve
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Farm Happenings at The Farm at Millican Reserve

Farm Happenings for June 30, 2021

Posted on June 29th, 2021
Howdy All! We have been very busy this past week! Second and third successions of summer and winter squash have been planted. Additionally, we are getting in some watermelon and cantaloupe. Hopefully, the weather cooperates with us so that we can see these crops through. Our summer squash is lookin1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 26, 2021

Posted on June 24th, 2021
Howdy All!   I have been enjoying getting to know the farm and meeting some of the CSA customers.  We have been planting some new crops this week like watermelon, summer and winter squash, Armenian cucumbers, red noodle beans and hopefully more soon.   Looking forward to gaining more1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 23, 2021

Posted on June 22nd, 2021
Howdy All! I apologize for the delay in this week’s share. We’ve been replanting many rows to replace what we lost during our month of rains. Variety will be limited over the next couple weeks until our squash starts producing again. Our okra also took a hit from the local deer populati1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 19, 2021

Posted on June 17th, 2021
Howdy All! We've been busily getting the farm back in order after all the rain we received last month. This week we planted 5 beds of various summer squash to replace the crops we've lost. Additionally, our cover crop has finally matured enough to mow down and get tarped in preparation for Fall veg1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 12, 2021

Posted on June 9th, 2021
Howdy All! It looks like the rains have finally let up. This is good news for much of our crops. The focus for the next few weeks will be cleaning up the beds where we lost crops and replanting. I'm hoping for most of the longterm summer crops such as eggplant, okra, and peppers recover quickly. I'1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 9, 2021

Posted on June 6th, 2021
Howdy All! We are still managing through the wet soil conditions this week. We’ve lost a few crops early however I am double planting more veggies to transplant in a couple weeks when hopefully the fields dry out some. These next few weeks will be supplemented on larger quantities of fewer va1 read more »

Farm Happenings for June 5, 2021

Posted on June 3rd, 2021
Howdy All, As mentioned last week, we are starting to see and feel the effects of the excess rain we've received over the last few weeks. Saturated soil can cause many problems for the plants. We are working through these challenging conditions to keep producing as much as possible but our diversit1 read more »