June 1 ushers in a new market season and our Summer CSA, both of which are sure to be loaded with your favorite fresh produce. We have two greenhouses teeming with tomato transplants ready to reach those dormant tastebuds reserved for summer's best. While our little tomato friends mature, we invite you
This is the time of year that the earth digests its cover crops and composts so that nutrients can be available for our summer crops. Organic farming takes time. We don't give our crops a shot of chemicals to grow. We depend on our soil, and the billions
We're heading into our seventh season farming here in Central Oregon! The crop plan has been made and seeds have been arriving in the mail. We've already seeded our first waves of carrots, radishes, onions, leeks, lettuce, kale, spinach, chard, asian greens, and mache. Its time to make your commitment to eating all the good
Central Oregon sunshine is the best... for growing stuff. These classic clear, cold, nights and brilliant days are just fine for our cold hardy veggies. We showed up to everything frozen solid this morning and by lunch, everything was thawed and spritzed and packed for our hardy winter CSA members. Arugula, two different kinds of
Hello winter CSA members, Wonderful to see you all yesterday. Thank you for making it to the drops on time and hauling home the deepest winter goods. Storing food and raising food in the winter is a real trick, and the CSA becomes a true adventure. Sometimes in variety, but more often in salvage. We've
Dear Friends of Rainshadow! We've gotten better at growing potatoes! Three years ago we lost our potatoes to a deep freeze in December and gave away 50 tons to the community on New Year's Day. Since then we've worked on our local relationships with restaurants, grocery stores and families to grow and store a year-round
Seasonal, local food comes in waves. We've been delivering our summer CSA shares to Farmer's Market for a month now and we're already moving out of spring crops and into pre-summer crops. Some things are behind us until fall. Some things stick around all summer and the choices become more bountiful. Our first waves of
We want to extend a huge thanks to all of our committed CSA members, old and new! You allow our farm to be diverse, accessible, and abundant and we are so grateful! Because of you, we are able to buy our seeds, our fertility, our fuel, our water, 7 new greenhouses, 600 chicks, 50
Rainshadow Organics CSA THE VALUE OF THE CSA IS MANIFOLD. Rainshadow Organics CSA We understand buying into a CSA can be a scary investment. You find yourself saying, there is no way I really spend over $1200 (the cost of our large CSA) during a twenty-week period of time just on groceries. Here, we have taken the
We are coming up on the end of may and the farm is bursting with potential! Garden beds have been prepped, thousands of seeds have been sewn, greenhouses built and filled with transplants. We've got a strong crew back at
