It has been a long time since we’ve posted. The season has gotten away from us, once again. We’re reaching and moving toward the height of the abundant farming season. Crops are growing fast as long as we keep things watered and weeded. We’re in the time of the season where the days are long and there is little downtime or space for rest. On the flip side, to be surrounded by such plant abundance and growth and fecundity is completely spectacular. Our senses are aroused in so many ways and we watch our son run through the fields picking kale and strawberries with such joy. Crops are coming along nicely — we’re still running late on planting, so we’re pushing the season by planting more summer crops hoping for a longer summer season this year — maybe into October? We’ll be starting the Grants Pass Growers Market this Saturday and will continue at our Ashland farmers’ market as well. Figuring out how to be in two places at once is interesting, but we’ve got enough help this year to make it work. Enjoy the long summer days and check out our Facebook page for regular updates and pictures of the farm.
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Reaching the Height of the Farming Season
Posted in Farm Update on July 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Moving Forward
Posted in CSA, Farm Update, Farmers Market, Planting, Vegetables on February 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Josh prepared a whole bunch of new ground for planting this past week thanks to the great weather we had last week. It was so warm! Melissa even got to hop on the tractor and till up a 1/4 acre. That was fun. We plant our hoophouse on Thursday with the first of the greens and deliver one more winter CSA box on Friday then we’ll be moving our focus into planting, seeding and beginning markets in mid-March. We have lots of room in our summer CSA program, so take a look at our brochure and let us know if you have any questions!
New Look
Posted in Farm Update, Winter on January 6, 2010| 1 Comment »
We hope you aren’t thrown off by our new look. One of our big projects this winter is to improve our blog and website to make it easier to understand the products we offer, where we sell, and how to contact us. In the weeks to come, we’ll be adding some new pages, so look for those. We will have information up soon about our 2010 main season CSA program. As well, we will be posting information soon about jobs and internships with Barking Moon Farm this growing season. We will be looking for 3 interns and a couple of hourly folks, so stay tuned for job description and application information.
We delivered the 3rd winter CSA box this past week and most everything did okay in the big freeze of December. We did lose some things like chard, celery root, arugula and some winter squash, but we are still going stong with lots of sweet carrots, greens, onions, potatoes and other storage crops.
We’ve begun checking things off the enormous list of tasks to accomplish before markets begin again in March. Some of the big projects include building a new propagation house (the pad is in, we’ve mulched and seeded around the base and pipe bending and construction begins later this week). We’ll begin fencing another acre at our leased property in a couple of weeks (yes, we keep growing in acreage….) Other big projects include: crop planning, pack-out expansion with extended roof, gravel & more tubs, and upgrading our irrigation system. This week, we begin the first round of salad greens and other early greens in the greenhouse for the first deliveries and markets in March and April. I can’t believe we are already going back into the greenhouse. June is going to be here before we know it!
We’re looking forward to a new year and growing season full of creativity, joy, abundance, community and lots of veggies!
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