In Your Bin August 12th: No Bin!
A quick reminder that there is no delivery this week as per our email last week! Pressing Pause to catch up here at the farm. See you next week! ~Your Willo’Wind Farm Team
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Supply Management
A key issue in the current trade negotiations is Supply Management. You may have been reading about this in the news. The National Farmers Union has always stood firmly in defense of this practice and the quote below speaks to it. It is a complex issue and if you want to know more head to…
In Your Bin August 5th: Pressing Pause!
Today marks week nine of the Summer CSA. It is always about this time that we press pause and take a week off the Delivery CSAs to catch up with weeding, more planting for the fall, trellising tomatoes etc. So there will be no delivery Tuesday August 12th. We hear that it also helps customers…
In Your Bin July 29th: Experimenting with Fruits
Part of our vision for the farm for a sustainable food system is to add varieties of fruit. The challenge is to grow them organically and it takes time to grow a fruit tree! We have met with some success in our plum trees. Our most successful tree was laden with fruit which made it…
In Your Bin July 22nd: Resilience!
So what does a vegetable grower do to be resilient in an ever changing climate? Grow a variety of vegetables suitable to all weather possibilities and grow varieties of each of those vegetables! Mono culture is not resilient. We only need to look at huge fields of corn struggling for water this season to know…
In Your Bin July 15th: News from the Fields!
What is in season?! At the markets we come to realize that as fewer and fewer families have access to farm life the rhythms of produce in season are barely known. People come to the market hoping for acorn squash or melons, yet the season is not here. So here is a list of what…
In Your Bin July 12th: Beets!
Beet harvest has begun! Often when we are at one of our Farmers’ Markets people will ask us to take the tops off the beets. We are happy to do that because our chickens look forward to market day and the bin of this and that discarded vegetables. But in that same moment another customer…
In Your Bin July 2nd: Peas in the Pod!
Sending along a link that is a great refresher in all things garden peas! In your bin this week you will be receiving either snow peas or sugar snap peas. Both have edible pods. Snow peas are long and slender. Sugar snap peas snap with a crispness with peas in the pod a little more…