Circle M Farm

This garden year has flown by in an absolute riot of color and flavor and taste and abundance. We were thrilled with the yields and the varieties overall, though there were certainly a few failures and disappointments. Many thanks to you, our partners in this good work, for supporting the cottage industries here at Circle M. We hope you’ve enjoyed eating as much as we’ve enjoyed growing and packing the boxes. Please join us for the Homestead Harvest Festival this weekend as we celebrate a fabulous fall. continued »

Join the Circle! We LOVE to share our farm with like-minded families and individuals who are hungry for the connection with land, food and animals that we so crave. The circle is a symbol of community, inclusion and inter-dependence and those things are what Circle M is all about. So do come and join us as we close out the garden season with a celebration of fresh food and fall fun here at Circle M! Meet the animals, tour the gardens, learn how to spin and felt wool, visit with farm friends and enjoy a lovely day in our rolling countryside. We’ll have a small selection of wool-based gifts available for purchase, as well as a fresh selection of our homestead beef! You can order our turkeys for Thanksgiving and we can also direct you to nearby neighbors selling pumpkins, apples and other autumn treats.

10 am to noon – Horsing Around with Shakespeare and Zinnia
Small people can take rides on Shakespeare, our retired parade Arabian, and Zinnia, our young Paint filly. We’ll also spend time grooming the horses and polishing their tack, as well as getting out into their pastures and scooping poop!

Noon to 1 – Fiber Fun with Spindles and Needles
All are welcome to experiment with making yarn on a drop-spindle and making felt with a barbed needle. Kids should have parents on hand to supervise, but we’ll have lots of willing instructors.

2 pm – MooGrass Concert!
This is the final concert of the season for our 4-piece bluegrass band, since our fiddle and banjo players spend winters in Florida. Come and sing-a-long to classic old-time tunes you are sure to recognize. Last year we enjoyed a small crowd of kids dancing to all our fiddle tunes – this year we hope everyone will jump in.

4 pm Pot Luck Dinner featuring Your Side Dishes with Circle M Ham
Bring a dish to pass, lawn chairs or a blanket and some drinks to share. We’ll light the bonfires and enjoy the stars of autumn.

All Night Spin-In
For those late-night fiber junkies, or those who just like to watch, we’ll cozy up to the fire with dessert (pot-luck, so bring food and fiber!) and spin as late as we can stay up. Those with sleeping bags are welcome to just camp next to their wheels. Knitters and crocheters welcome, of course, and non-fiber spouses and significant others can bring movies to watch.

Our farm events are designed to pull members of our CSA into community with each other and with the life of the homestead. But friends, family and interested members of the public are all welcome to visit during these open-house scheduled events. However, you can feel free to call us and schedule appointments to visit, shop, tour, take a class or set up camp for a few days.

For our final delivery of the year we’re reveling in late-season wonders, those little-seen and under-appreciated root crops that grow surreptitiously under a canopy of lush leaves for most of the summer and then emerge from the ground in fall like forgotten treasures. Here in the gardens we’ve been gasping in delight as we dig potatoes, beets, turnips, carrots and rutabagas from the black dirt to reveal their bright skins in shades of purple, pink, red, orange, yellow and white. continued »

This week, we’re enjoying the hastily collected bounty of tender crops we harvested in a panic just before the frost. Many, like the cucumbers, celery and tomatoes, need to be eaten in haste as well, but the winter squash should keep just wonderfully on your kitchen counter or under the table for a few weeks. We’re also just beginning to harvest the cool-weather root crops. It’s a good time to be eating. continued »

Wow! We woke up this morning to an absolutely gorgeous sunny day – that was 29 degrees! The fields and gardens are blanketed with a lovely frost, the white flag of surrender for the summer crops. I, frankly, am quite glad to see them go. We’ve been running around for the past few days frantically gathering up tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and everything else tender we hoped to save. I do regret not pulling in the last of the beans, because we did have a lot out there. But I’m truly glad to be done with the rest. Now we can sit back and enjoy the spectacular show put on by the winter and root crops. continued »