7/21 pickup — we survived! Ms Amiga smiling in the cover crop. (Photo credit: Natalie Leder) We made it! I duplicate emails within our email program so I don’t have to fussel with design and formatting every week. It turns out 2 weeks

The Farming Season is Shifting REMINDER: We are doing away with single use bags. We just couldn’t take it anymore. Make sure to bring your reusable salad and basil bags or containers with you when you pickup your CSA! There are way more then 4 seasons

7/7 pickup — we survived! We made it!Woah, it is nice to be on the other side of last week. You all felt and know this, but that was HOT!!! Without being too dramatic, we went into survival mode this week: how to keep ourselves and all the

It is more then hot here! Last week we talked about the spring to summer transition. I’m almost sorry I mentioned it. Apparently, summer heard and decided to really make an appearance! Good gracious! We are looking down the pipe at the hottest days Rainshadow has ever seen. While veggies need sun and warmth to

Happy arrival of summer! Too bad it has had to make such a grand entry. (Insert sweating eye rolling emoji here.) I can’t believe that the last time I sent this email we were finishing our Winter CSA. Now we have completed the first 4-weeks of our 18-week summer CSA. Talk about a transition

But the veggies still think it is spring The season has officially changed with the Solstice on Sunday, but it will still be a few more weeks until our vegetables catch up and those truly “summer” vegetables arrive. You can tell we are on the brink of the turn in vegetable season. There are baby

Farming is all about taking care of babies And growing vegetables at Rainshadow is about relationships. While some of our plants are only around for a few weeks (carrots, radishes, salad turnips), we have many more that spend months on the farm. We start them as seeds, transplant them after they spend a month or

Weeding: it's what we do to stay ahead This past week we did a lot of weed maintenance. As organic farmers, the only real way to keep weeds down to a "manageable" level is to stay on top of the weeding! Often this means weeding when you can't even see weeds. At the

We just finished planting the 25-acre field! Wow, what a week–wind, not quite freezing temps at night, gradually warming days, rain, sun. All the things that make Central Oregon in the spring so ... special. We have been planting and nurturing crops in the hoops and the 2-acre garden since March for the

Storage roots for the win! I don't know about you, but we are blown away by how long and how well our storage crops are doing! With only May left in our 2020-2021 Winter CSA, we couldn't be happier with how everything is going. The foundation of our Winter CSA are roots we harvested last fall,