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Farm Happenings at Zilnicki Farms
Farm Happenings for November 7, 2023
First week of November already is in the books and it is officially baby due month. Thankfully I was able to finish digging all of our potatoes and have them in storage. Just need to put a cover crop down on 10 acres tomorrow and the farm is ready for fall and winter.
This will be1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 31, 2023
Happy early Halloween! Talk about a gorgeous week out there. Mother nature has provided us with a dry week, warm temps, and perfect conditions to finish harvesting our potatoes. It is a race to finish digging and putting a cover crop in all before the new baby arrives. I hav1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 24, 2023
Another soggy Saturday is upon us and its actually getting comical. I feel bad for all the farms that go heavy for the fall festivities and are getting hammered with this weather.
We had a solid week of digging potatoes at another field. This field brought about many challen1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 17, 2023
Sorry for the delay in getting you this email but I was working into the night, sowing in a cover crop before the rain today. All week we have been busy digging potatoes out of the ground and putting them into a large storage barn. I then take a tractor with 2 giant ripper teeth that di1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 10, 2023
What a gorgeous week! I really hope you were able to get out and enjoy these past few days. We were full throttle this week harvesting potatoes, and the stars aligned and we had a great week with only minor breakdowns, allowing us to really take advantage of this weather. Yes it w1 read more »
Farm Happenings for October 3, 2023
October is finally here and the wet pattern continues. They always say be careful what you wish for, and all those extra rain dances we did sure did come to fruition. So I've taken it upon myself to start 'Snow' dances, as we haven't had a real good winter in a few seasons. Not on1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 26, 2023
What a special week it has been. For all the families that came out to our 1st Zilnicki Farms Summer Soirée, all I can say is what a perfect night! All the stars aligned and we had an absolutely amazing night. The barn was gorgeous, the view was on point, the music was perfect, t1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 19, 2023
Well the humidity finally broke and we are thankful for that! The lingering high humidity was making potato harvest extremely hard, as we could only do a little at a time and put 5 fans on the potatoes to dry them and reduce their core temperatures. If we didn't reduce their core1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 12, 2023
Steam rolling through September after this hot and humid week. Yes it was a warm one, but soon enough we will be complaining we didn't pack a winter hat with us and our ears are cold.
Yes it makes life on the farm a little more difficult, and yes people are a little more cranky, b1 read more »
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Zilnicki Farms is a 4th generation family farm focused on sustainable agriculture, growing the highest quality vegetables and reminding people of the importance in knowing where their food comes from. Together as a family we work tirelessly to provide a vast assortment of vegetable, herbs, potted flowers, cut flowers, and free range eggs.
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