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Farm Happenings at Wild Coyote Farm
Know Your Farmers
This isn’t Amazon. When you communicate with us, it’s with the person who grew, harvested and packed your food, maybe even delivered it! We run a very lean crew here - leaner than we had hoped for this year but we’ve had a hard time finding good help. A few weeks ago our couple of1 read more »
Trim the Fat
As fall approaches, we are spending every day bringing in the crops. It gives me as the farmer plenty of time to reflect and scheme for next season. I’ll have to say that rarely am I excited to harvest. Lots of times the crops look quite good, but I know there is more potential to be had. It&1 read more »
Winter Plans & Canning Tomatoes
As farmers we have to plan for next year, for the winter, and for five years out all during the busiest season of the year. Everything that we do during this summer affects what the condition of things will be next summer and into the future. In a year that we’ve had allot of flooding and los1 read more »
Integrating Animals
Integrating animals into a vegetable operation. I think most vegetable producers would read that statement and decide right away that it’s not a good idea. Why would somebody add another layer of complexity to the operation? The simple answer is that animals eat things that we don’t. We1 read more »
Ponderings of a farmer
If you've been reading my farm happenings, you will know some of the things that have failed or struggled. So as I think towards the future I am struck how important it is to diversify both my crops and my type of customers. When we set off at the beginning of the year we always think about beautif1 read more »
Farming fails are hard to stomach.
When things go wrong on the farm, it’s very hard to accept. Often in life we have the opportunity to repair things or make things right, but when crops fail to grow as expected or floods come and destroy the crop there is nothing to be done. We must wait until the following season to try agai1 read more »
Summer Crops!
That means I’m too busy to write a farm happenings for you all. I hope you’re enjoying your deliveries and I’ll work on keeping it coming!
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Triple bottom line
July 16 today! Where’s the summer going? What’s done is done! The summer crops that are in is what we have, there is no time remaining to put in more, in fact even the cool weather fall vegetables will transplanted outside this next week. Lots of good crops to come!
This week we a1 read more »
Blueberries, Flowers, and flooding
This week we are partnering with a local blueberry farm, Blue Paradise Farm in Covert, MI, that is in the process of converting to Organic. What does it take to transition blueberries?
1. The plants have to be weaned off chemical fertilizers- the cost of organic replacement for chemical ferti1 read more »
About the farm
Wild Coyote Farm is a Certified Organic small family farm in beautiful Southwest Michigan, dedicated to organic, regenerative, and sustainable growing practices to produce delicious and nutritious produce and eggs. No synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, or anything harmful to any part of the precious land and environment we steward. We grow everything in soil (no hydroponics) and focus on soil health to grow the most nutritious produce. The animals we raise (chickens and sheep) rotate as part of our soil health plan, are pastured and humanely cared for.
It’s a win win for all - the environment, the farmers, and you, the eater!
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It’s a win win for all - the environment, the farmers, and you, the eater!