Are you there fall? It's us the Rainshadow farmers! Fall? Are you here? Winter? Are you on your way? The swings of the past weeks really leave one wondering. Just about a month ago we had our first killing frost and then it was in the 90s for a week. Now we are
Summer CSA Week 17 - It's a Meat Week! Farm News Fall vibes. It's a feeling that is going around right now. Cooler temps, shorter days, smokier air, kids back in school. This past week you might have noticed the arrival of fall when you picked up your CSA share. The carrots and beets
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 Week 13 - It's a Meat Week! This week's email is written by Amanda Amanda is our Propagation, Greenhouse, and Garden Manager Where are you from? I migrated to Bend several years ago but, I was hatched and raised near Seattle, WA. How did you find yourself at Rainshadow? I came to
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
