Hooray! We’ve completed another scrumptious garden year together! We can’t thank you enough for your kind support of our little farm. continued »

Click here to link to Sheila’s final video blog of the season. She’s got tons of yummy arugula recipes!

For this last box of the year, we tried to pull out all the stops and give you some of the most special tastes the post-frost season has to offer. Some things are absolutely transformed by a few dips into the low 30s – such as carrots, leeks, turnips, beets and kale whose starches turn to sugar when frozen. (Brussels Sprouts are another such vegetable, but ours just didn’t ball up in time.) Consider this final fall harvest our fond farewell to you! We can’t thank you enough for your kind support of our little farm. continued »

I can’t remember a prettier fall. But I just might say that every year in October. continued »

Oh, we are having fun in this gorgeous weather, harvesting in the fields and getting the farm tidied up for our big party on Saturday. We DO hope you’ll join us for our Homestead Harvest Festival from 2 til 10pm – click here for a full schedule of events. In addition to our usual activities, we will also have chicken, beef, honey, jam and woolcraft kits here for sale. Our neighbors across the drive have just set out dozens of huge pumpkins to sell and our neighboring apple orchard is having a tremendous year with lots of varieties available. We think you’ll find it worth the drive out here this weekend! Even the drive itself will be beautiful. continued »

This is one of the beautiful Blue Hubbard squash we are packing for CSA members this week and next. Happy Autumn! A Circle M gift to you… continued »

It is truly fall! We’ve got giant hard squash coming to you in the boxes (actually, they won’t fit in the boxes…) and we’re starting to parcel out the root storage crops. That means it’s time for us to celebrate a season well spent in the gardens – and we’d love to have you join us! Next Saturday from 2 til 10pm is our Homestead Harvest Festival here at the farm. We’ll have tours and wooly activities and music and food. Click here for the full schedule. continued »

Click here to watch the video and check out all the recipes. Yum – Cashew Kale and Chickpeas! Thanks, Sheila…

Well, we are eating our way towards the end of the garden year now – and it’s delightful to bring spring favorites back to the table, along with some juicy summer treats, too. So many things seem to taste even better with that hint of frost in their cells. As the kale, red lettuce and cabbages turn brighter along with the leaves lining the edges of our fields, our thoughts turn toward fall. It’s about time to celebrate the months of food and fun we’ve reaped from the farm this year. Please join us at our annual Homestead Harvest Day on October 8! From roughly noon til night we’ll open the farm to members, neighbors, friends and family. We’ll get an invite up on facebook this week and a schedule on the website, so check back. continued »

Oh, my. So many of a a farmer’s best-laid summer plans can be thwarted by an early September frost. But we shouldn’t lose much tonight that’s terribly important to us, and we’ll exert ourselves today in an effort to rescue those things which we simply refuse to let go without a fight. Like sweet peppers. Our plants are absolutely loaded with giant blocky green fruits. So we’ll blanket them entirely this afternoon with several layers of floating row cover. That’s after we pick all the green tomatoes we have space for in the Cool Room. continued »