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Pharm Updayte

May 27th, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog

Broccoli Galore The broccoli has been great and in full effect for the last few weeks.  We are doing heavy pickings from the main heads and side shoots, with lots more coming.

The first two plantings of cauliflower have failed, due to (a) gophers (b) freak super-cold snap at the end of april (c) freak super hot spell (100 degrees for 5 straight days) in mid May, which caused the curds to separate and be no good.  The third is looking good and hope to have that. In the future I don’t want to grow cauliflower.

Radishes have been so good, as has the daikon.  Spring mix and lettuce mix have been heavy hitters.  The kale and chard are really stepping it up right now and the peas are going to town.

Potatoes are flowering and they can’t come soon enough in my opinion.

There are hundreds of green, good sized tomatoes just waiting for the next hot spell to ripen up.  That is exciting.

Meanwhile, we just started picking summer squash and look forward to putting it in all of our CSA members’ mailboxes.

Carrots take a darn long time.

I don’t even dare dream of peppers until July comes.

Come on cucumbers.

I think our members are all well fed and turning green.

The farmers’ markets have been going well and we look forward to bringing the fan favorites to it, but in the meantime we are happy everyone really loves kale and radishes.

much love
andrew


First Market

May 21st, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog

This last Saturday Andrea and I packed up the truck, left Ryan at the farm to take care of the recently transplanted veggies, and went to our first farmers’ market.  It was a blazing hot morning for mid-May.

We brought mostly heat-sensitive greens, such as kale, lettuce mix, spring salad mix.  We arrived at the market area at 7am and our booth area was already in a beam of sun.  So, I drove to the nearest store to get an EZ-Up, only to find the store was still closed.  I returned to the farmers’ market and set up with Andrea, yet the sun was strong and the heat was already intense.  So, I drove back to the store as the market started and got us an EZ-Up, returned to the market to find Andrea inundated with shoppers, and finally got the  EZ-Up up an hour later.

We sold out, which was definitely a great thing, and not entirely expected.  Cilantro was more popular than dill.  Lettuce mix more so than spring salad mix.

It was a lot of fun and obviously a great way to add liquidity to the business.

We are looking forward to going to the market next week, totally prepared, EZ-UP in tow.

much love,
drew


First CSA Boxes!

May 11th, 2008
Four Frog Farm | Blog
Whew.  That was a busy week.  I harvested, packed and delivered for 18 families this week, in addition to the madness that is May. This is prime planting season right now, because the soil has warmed to a suitable 70-75 degrees.  So, now we can direct seed corn, cucumbers, melons, watermelons, basil, squash, winter squash, and a great many other vegetables. So, throw the CSA into Monday and Wednesday, and planting, and maintenance, and that makes me a busy boy. We are getting nice, huge heads… Read the rest of this article »

Three farms are starting from scratch.

They are turning the dirt and hoping to be successful enough to turn a profit, and to become a valuable part of their communities as suppliers of organically grown food.

Peaceful Valley is giving them a head start by offering them special pricing as part of this Freshman Farmer program.

The Farm Blogs

Freshman:
New Farms Coming Soon!
Sophomores:
Daily Grace Farms
Crescent City, CA
Freestone Family Farm
Vernal, UT
Wise Moon Farm
Redding, CA
Graduates:
Coyote House Farm
Palermo, CA
DeepSeeded Community Farm
Arcata, CA
Driftwood Farm
Fort Bragg, CA
EarthDance Farm
St. Louis, MO
Ellwood Canyon Farms
Goleta, CA
Four Frog Farm
Penn Valley, CA
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm
Poulsbo, WA
Home Plate Organic Farm
Orleans, CA
Honey in the Heart Farm
Nevada City, CA
Willow Springs Farm
Penn Valley, CA

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Coyote House Farm
Palermo, CA
Daily Grace Farms
Crescent City, CA
DeepSeeded Community Farm
Arcata, CA
Driftwood Farm
Fort Bragg, CA
EarthDance Farm
St. Louis, MO
Ellwood Canyon Farms
Goleta, CA
Four Frog Farm
Penn Valley, CA
Freestone Family Farm
Vernal, UT
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm
Poulsbo, WA
Home Plate Organic Farm
Orleans, CA
Honey in the Heart Farm
Nevada City, CA
Willow Springs Farm
Penn Valley, CA
Wise Moon Farm
Redding, CA

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