Farmer Josh

Re-roofing & Greens

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Nov 142011
 

Breezy ridge top greetings to you!

The past few weeks have been predominantly taken up with trying to get Mom and Dad’s house reroofed. What a challenging and interesting project that’s been! More details on that in a little bit.

Mom caught me harvesting some of the beautiful Swiss chard and kale that’s been growing this fall.

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We are nearing the close of the main hoop house harvest for this season. While some crops such as Swiss chard and kale may re-grow a little later most of the other crops are going to be finished soon. If you’re interested we have Swiss chard, kale, both daikon radishes and regular radishes, tatsoi, along with a few green onions and mustard greens also ready for harvest. Pricing is as follows:

  • Swiss chard and mustard greens $2.75 per lb.
  • Kale and tatsoi $3.00 per lb.
  • Daikons and radishes $1.50 per lb.
  • Green onions $1.00 per dozen

Our last planned main harvests for this season will be tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15th and Friday, November 18th so please have your preorder in by 11:00 pm prior to harvest day. Please let me know if you would like us to harvest Tuesday or Friday and your order will be ready to pick up any time after 4:00 pm. If you won’t be able to pick up your produce the same day as harvest just let us know and we’ll have it harvested and ready for you to pick up at your convenience. Continue reading »

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Summer Update

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Oct 182011
 

Hello!

Here’s a greens update… Currently Swiss chard and kale are still available and we have developed a waiting list for spinach and arugula. We also have some garlic available. Prices are as follows: Swiss chard $2.75 per lb., Kale $3.00 per lb., Garlic $6 for ½ lb. or $10 per lb.

Harvest will be on Tuesdays and Fridays so please have your preorder in by midnight prior to harvest day. Please let me know if you would like us to harvest Tuesday or Friday and your order will be ready to pick up any time after 4:00 pm.

Many of the summer pictures included in this update were taken from my phone’s camera, so sorry for the inferior quality compared to Mom’s pictures!

In the last update we were finishing up Granddad and G-Jean’s new house addition and while we’re still needing to do some finishing touches it’s now nearly completed. Once the trailer house is moved out we plan to add a small mud room on and then everything will be complete. Shortly after the last update all the carpeting and kitchen cabinets were installed and they added the finishing touches to make it “home”. While I was gone through the summer Dad finished hooking up all the plumbing and appliances.

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Praise the Lord for such a beautiful and bountiful harvest of strawberries and red raspberries this spring! It was a wonderful harvest and once I left we were blessed with many individuals who took advantage of the u-pick option which helped our family out tremendously. Thank you to each one who helped harvest the berries!

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 Posted by Farmer Josh at 10:47 pm

Farm, Home & Berries!

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May 182011
 

Greetings!

Most of the hoop house produce is needs to be harvested now and this coming Saturday, May 21st will be the last pick up for the majority of the hoop house produce. Being fresh harvested for each order our lettuce routinely keeps for two weeks, usually three weeks and a few customers have mentioned their lettuce has stored in the refrigerator for a month!

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Available are:

· Swiss Chard $3.00 per lb.

· Lettuce (leaf, romaine and buttercrunch varieties) $3.50 per lb.

· White spring turnips $1.50 per lb.

· Spinach $4.00 per lb.

· Kale $3.50 per lb.

· Mint (While this is not the best variety for mint tea it makes wonderful mint muffins!) 4 oz. for $1.25 or 8 oz. for $2.00

· Oregano $3.00 per oz.

· Garlic scapes (curly-cue garlic tops) $1.00 for ten

Check out our families’ favorite mint recipe, Mint Muffins, at the end of this update!

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