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Farm Happenings at Trumpeter Swan Farm
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 13, August 24 thru August 26
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 13, August 24 thru August 26
---- Sweet Corn ----
Now that this is the second week of sweet corn I wanted to take this moment to just tell you folks about corn. This years corn is small, with the lack of water the ears did not grow very big and even with1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 12, August 17 thru August 19
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 12, August 17 thru August 19
---- Sweet Onions ----
Our first onions out the door are the sweet yellows - Candy (Vidalia) and Walla Walla. They are nice and sweet this year! Be sure to save them for special treats like hamburgers, onion rings or roast bee1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 11, August 10 thru August 12
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 11, August 10 thru August 12
---- Garlic ----
About a month ago we harvested garlic and laid it out to dry. Just this last weekend it was finally dry enough to start processing. Even with the dry weather the crop turned out just as expected and looked pre1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 10, August 2 thru August 4
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 10, August 2 thru August 4
---- Tomatoes just around the corner ----
With it being hot and dry the tomatoes have been loving it. We started picking cherry tomatoes this week, not a lot. But, that being said there are a lot of green tomatoes out there so b1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 9, July 20 thru July 22
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 9, July 20 thru July 22
---- Find us on Facebook ----
The CSA tab of our website trumpeterswanfarm.com has links for member info and accessing your account. Our Facebook page has more frequent updates on what's happening at the farm. We encourage you to f1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 8, July 20 thru July 22
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 8, July 20 thru July 22
---- Eggs ----
We had a couple of questions pop up about chicken eggs and why they're not in stock sometimes. Well there are two reasons, the first is the heat. When chickens are hot and stressed they don't want to lay eggs. We try1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 7, July 13 thru July 15
---- Quail Eggs ----
Trying to spread around the quail eggs. Let me know if you have not been able to pick quail eggs yet (reply to this email). We'll make sure you get a dozen in the next few weeks. We get 1 dozen quail eggs per day, so only 7 doz a week. If you get eggs, make sure to get the egg1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 6, July 6 thru July 8
---- Broccoli ----
Broccoli is here, it's coming slowly, enough for about half the members. A reminder that you may find a couple of worms in the broccoli, little green fellas, they mean you no harm. The green worms are cabbage loopers and they love to munch on the leafs of our all our cole crops;1 read more »
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 5, June 29 thru July 1
Trumpeter Swan Farm CSA News - Summer, Week 5, June 29 thru July 1
---- A Bit of Rain ----
At the farm we received about 0.30" of rain over the weekend. Now while this is a welcome sprinkle it is no where near the amount of rain we need to pull us out of this drought. Until we receive more rain we1 read more »
About the farm
Phil and Kathy, along with our son Ian and other employees, farm 40 acres. We raise fruits and vegetables including asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb, summer squash, cucumbers, peas and beans, tomatoes and peppers, sweet corn, and winter squash. We also have brown eggs produced by our never caged, free range chickens. And honey produced by hives on our farm.
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