Summer CSA pick up #16 this week Farm News On the farm this week it really feels like we are getting into a steady little habit. Harvest for CSA and the weekly market. Harvest for winter storage. Work some processing of winter storage things (like garlic or onions or chickens) in somewhere. Plant
Summer CSA Week 15 - It's a Meat Week! This week's email is written by Rachel Rachel is one of our Apprentice Farmers and does animals on Sundays & Mondays Where are you from? I moved here from Jackson, Wyoming. How did you find yourself at Rainshadow?
Summer CSA pick up #14 this week Farm News Wow, is it October? April? When you get a week like this smack in the middle of the "hottest" part of the year it causes a farmer to stop and wonder what month it actually is. The break in the heat and the smoke
Winter is Coming I was looking back over the July email to remind myself what happened last month and chuckled because I just titled this email Winter is Coming and the last email was titled Summer is Here. That is certainly how it feels on the farm. All summer long we grow
Summer CSA Pick up #10: 8/14-8/18 Announcing the Winter CSA It's time! We have just begun harvesting our winter storage crops, and while we are in the theoretical hottest part of the year, it is time to start thinking about how you will feed yourself this winter. Our Winter CSA is the
Summer CSA Week 11 - It's a Meat Week! Farm News Alison here writing the email this week! As you may have sensed, I do a lot of the back end work. I write and/or coordinate the weekly CSA emails, monthly Farm emails, the add-ons, and plenty of other things that all involve
Summer CSA Pick up #10: 7/31-8/4 Farm News How does the song go ... what a difference a day a day makes. Boy does that sure feels true right now. Last week it was so hot we were mainlining salt tabs, shade, and soaking wet shirts and the on Thursday it was 80F
Summer is here! Farmer Appreciation Day, Sunday, 8/4 This year with the turn from cold to hot, the weeds EXPLODED! You're invited to a Rainshadow Community Weeding Day, Sunday, August 4, anytime, 8-noon. We love Customer Appreciation Day and we know how much you and your friends love Customer Appreciation Day. This year, we need your help
Summer CSA Week 9 This week's email is written by Tristan Tristan is our is one of our Apprentice Farmers this summer. Where are you from? I am from California and Japan but my parents raised my brother and I in Bali Indonesia. How did you find yourself at Rainshadow? I found
Summer CSA Week 8 Farm News The start of this summer was so cold we went out to the fields weighed down by trepidation each CSA harvest. The cold just slowed everything wwwwaaaayyyyy down. We lost our buckwheat and cover crop and many winter squash plants to those couple nights of
