Farm Happenings at Willow Haven Farm
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Farm Happenings at Willow Haven Farm

Rain & Watermelons

Posted on July 30th, 2018
Remember all the rain and flooding last week?  I bet some of you wondered how the farm does with all that water. Well, we are lucky that we have soil that drains easily so even though we received 5 ½ inches of rain we didn’t experience any flooding, no crops were washed out and no1 read more »

A Challenging Week

Posted on July 23rd, 2018
About the Harvest:  We are happy to have tomatoes and sweet corn for you this weekend.  The rain is great for the corn but the dear are loving it too. They just walk over from our neighbors GM field corn into our field at night.  I think they like organic better!  This weather i1 read more »

A Community for you, a recipe, and a freebie!

Posted on July 16th, 2018
In the past week Harvie opened a Facebook Group for all the farm share members of all the farms they work with.  These CSA Farms are great and I've enjoyed getting to know their farmers through group discussions and seeing their posts on our farmer community groups.  I think you will enjo1 read more »

A Cool and Necessary Task

Posted on July 9th, 2018
When we harvest 20 bins of cucumbers and zucchini the walk-in cooler seems crowded no matter how big we build it.  I caught on video the Farmer and our pack room coordinator, Danielle, reorganizing the stacks of bins in the walk-in.  We have to keep things organized so we can access every1 read more »

Happy Fourth of July! & Reminders

Posted on July 1st, 2018
  Wow. It really is summer.  This heat is great for out tropical plants like tomatoes, eggplant and peppers which need it in order to grow, set fruit and ripen.  During this week we started fieldwork earlier in the morning and stayed out of the sun in the afternoon.  We picked b1 read more »