Category Archives: general farm posts

This Week’s Harvest Tomatoes Kale Sweet Onions Potatoes Garlic Green Bell Peppers or Sweet Italian Peppers Carrots Romano Beans Zucchini  Apple Shares Mollie’s Delicious ( large, red, sweet and soft texture) and Big Bronze (cross between Golden and Red Delicious developed by our provider, Downing Fruit Farm. Crisp, large green, sweet and tart flavor) FarmContinue reading “CSA Week 16”

This Week’s Harvest Tomatoes Basil Red Bell Peppers Jalapeno Peppers Delicata Squash and Carnival Squash Sweet Corn (last of the season!) Melons (Watermelon and/or Cantaloupe) (Last of the season!) Carrots Kennebec Potatoes Green Beans Apple Share Gala (red and sweet) and Honeycrisp (greener and sweet and tart) Farm News (in pictures)   Recipes Green BeansContinue reading “CSA Week 15”

This Week’s Harvest Watermelon (yellow or red) Cantaloupe Edamame Beans Kale Winter Squash (Delicata and Carnival) Red Onions Tomatoes Red Bell Peppers Sweet Italian Peppers Japanese Eggplant Basil Sweet Corn Farm News Ben and I have a work ethic that’s probably borderline insane and this is particular true when significant rainfall creeps into the forecast.Continue reading “CSA Week 14”

This Week’s Harvest Garlic Tomatoes Edamame Beans Beets Basil Yellow Watermelon Zucchini Okra (Thursday only) Mini sweet “lunch box” bell peppers Sweet Onion Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Red Potatoes Farm News As both a farmer and as a student of history (it was my major in college), I was pretty ashamed I did not know aboutContinue reading “CSA Week 13”

This Week’s Harvest Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Heirloom Tomatoes Beefsteak Tomatoes Okra (Tuesday only. Thursday will get it next week) Sweet Corn Sweet Italian Peppers Red Bell Peppers Cantaloupe OR Yellow Watermelon Basil Red Potatoes Sweet Onions Garlic Zucchini Farm News This spring I was asked to join the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s  (OEFFA)Continue reading “CSA Week 12”

This Week’s Harvest Sweet Corn Salad Mix Cantaloupe Sweet Peppers (both red bells and orange Italian) Poblano Peppers Fairytale Eggplant Zucchini Tomatoes Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Sweet Onion Farm News The highlight of our week has been our sweet corn success! Birds mutilated the first round despite our setting up the trick that worked last year–Continue reading “CSA Week 11”

This Week’s Harvest Heirloom Tomatoes Slicer Tomatoes Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Red and Gold Beets Shishito Peppers  Cabbage Sweet Onions Poblano Peppers Italian Eggplant Fairy Tale Eggplant Tomatillos (last of the season!)   Farm News Hello! This is Ben writing the blog this week. I haven’t written a blog post in a couple of years (!?!),Continue reading “CSA Week 10”

This Week’s Harvest Tomato (first of the season!) Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Sweet Corn Shishito Peppers  Carrots Red Onions Zucchini Bell Peppers Green Beans Purple Kohlrabi Farm News We are grateful for our crew always, but particularly during holidays and heat waves. You see, farmers don’t stop for summer holidays like July 4 and Labor DayContinue reading “CSA Week 9”

This Week’s Harvest Green Beans Fairytale Eggplant Salad Mix Sweet Onions Cucumber Garlic Jalapeno Peppers Tomatillos Kale Celery Zucchini Garlic Farm News We have made the transition from spring crops to summer ones. This is the last week of cooking greens until fall (I thought the Swiss chard was going to hang on but itContinue reading “CSA Week 8”

This Week’s Harvest Carrots Cucumber Zucchini and/or Summer Squash Sweet Onions Garlic Salad Mix Tendersweet Cabbage Celery Basil  Tomatillos Jalapeño Peppers Farm News Oh July, you are a shock every year, even though we’ve been doing this 12 years. Vegetable farming is a marathon that you have to sprint! There is so much that needsContinue reading “CSA Week 7”