A cold stretch slows us down, but . . .
. . .that doesn’t keep us from going. We’ve been doing a bit of farm maintence. Tree and brush pruning; rock removal; barn cleaning, etc.We’re waiting for the sun to come out and dry out the soil. Hopefully, the seeds that are in the ground now are just waiting for some sunshine to come along […]
Bluebirds Abound
All this past week our crew of growers sited numerous couples of Eastern Bluebirds scoping out nesting sites on the farm. We are all hoping they will choose our location to settle and make baby bluebirds this spring. We are working closly with Park Naturalist, Denise Gibbs, to provide habitat for these very personable creatures. […]
Spring is Here!!!
The growers spent some time this week in the 60 degree weather cleaning and sharpening our hand tools. Once the ground warmed up our Field Manager was able to begin discing our early planting fields. Dispite a warm winter we have found the early spring to be quite cold and wet. Thus, we feel our […]
CSA Winter Meeting
Our CSA focus meeting was a success. Thanks for those who came. Here’s a picture of part of the crowd. We spoke at length about various factors, including:* the usefulness of the blog.* communicating more human interest stories about the farm.* getting more recipes dispersed to members* how to get members to bring their compost […]
2007 CSA Season SOLD OUT in 24 hours!
We are humbled by the quick response by folks who were waiting patiently to download their CSA commitment form at get it in asap. One person overnighted her form and others hand delivered. It is logical for us to assume that some out there may be asking the following question:Why do you limit CSA Membership?We […]
2007 CSA open to a limited number of new customers
We are please to open our Community Supported Agriculture program up to new customers begining today. At this time over 80% of the 2006 participating members have re-joined leaving only a hand full of spaces open for new applicants. If you are interested in joining please look over our CSA page on our regular web […]
Shannon Varley Transitions
Five years ago this January, I pulled into Frederick with a U-Haul and moved into my first apartment to take my first “real” salaried job after graduate school…I recall that my first weeks of work at Red Wiggler coincided with one of the bigger snow storms in recent MD history….(we haven’t even had a month […]
Sampling the Soil
We took the opportunity of the nice weather to go out and collect soil samples from our fields today. Soil testing is at the heart of of our strategy to build healthy soil where our plants can thrive. When plants grow in healthy soil they are better equipped to fend off pests and disease. In […]
Still Harvesting!
Hakurei Turnips still fresh and heathy!Thanks to Johnnys Selected Seeds for donating all our seeds in 2006! I am happy to report that our team of growers has proven that we are able to extend our growing season beyond Thanksgiving this year! The crew has been harvesting chard, turnips, kale, beets and arugula all this […]
Last Extended Season Harvest #4
We have been working hard to get our garlic planted. This photo shows our crew hand planting some of the 275 pounds of seed garlic (cloves of the larger garlic bulbs get planted). We are expanding our garlic patch so that we can meet the increased demand for high quality garlic- and this is a […]