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Thanksgiving
It’s hard to believe another CSA season has come to an end. This week we’ll deliver the final boxes for the regular season. Next week we’ll celebrate Thanksgiving and then we’ll take some time to visit...
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Winter Farm Update
We are having a real winter this year, and it’s been quite windy during some of these storms. The farm is doing fine, but the cover did blow off of one of our greenhouses in the latest series of...
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Spring Has Sprung
The barn swallows are back, which means spring is right around the corner! The greenhouse has a new roof and is filling with starts. There is still some rain in the forecast, but with enough days like...
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New Crates
Our new crates have arrived and this week all pick-up sites will receive their vegetables in crates! Why is this a more environmentally sound choice? The waxed cardboard boxes that we have used in the...
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A New CSA Administrator and other Farm News!
It’s about as busy as it can get around here. The ground finally dried out enough to get into most areas of the farm and we’ve been planting like crazy. You’ll notice we are depending a lot on our...
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The Greenhouse Palette
From about February on, the greenhouse is always filled with colorful starts. Seeds of lettuces, greens (chard, kale, mustard, collards, escarole), brassicas (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,...
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Companion Planting
I’ve always liked sweet alyssum flowers. We planted them back in our San Francisco community garden plot before we moved out of the city to start farming, and they made a lovely delicate ground cover...
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Berry News
The blueberry bushes are kicking into gear! Each year we go back and forth on one of our perennial farm questions – to net or not to net. This year the ayes have it and the crew spent a couple days...
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Nesting Season
The heat wave has passed and now we have our old comfortable friend the fog back again – drizzly mornings that keep temperatures in the cool 50s and 60s — the type of weather that makes this such a...
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A Farmer at Market
When we first started doing the Sunday farmer’s market in Mountain View, Jeanne was pregnant with our daughter Amelia who will be 19 in three weeks. Those two decades have passed astounding quickly...
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