We wanted to let all of you know that the kalettes and purple sprouting broccoli have been in stock over the last 10 days, and should be available for another 3 or 4 weeks. There is still some cabbage, some green till it runs out, a very few heads of red, and then plenty of…
Hello Community Garden folks, Nancy and I thought we ought to give you a late winter update on your produce availability right now. We picked the last red Russian kale that was big enough last Monday. It is gone now, along with the green kale that was on hand. The green kale is still big…
We are now taking applications for our 2016 summer and winter CSA programs. Sign up on our Community Supported Agriculture page.
The application for Mustard Seed’s 2016 summer community garden membership is now up! You can find it on on our Community Garden page. The summer program runs May 1 through Oct. 31. We accept sign ups through June 30, unless we fill up. We had more than 100 families last year.
Good evening folks, This has been a busy day getting crops picked and weeded. We still need to finish picking and packing some of them in the morning. We have had to wait till late in the day to finalize your mix of veggies. It has been a challenge so far this year to give…
Hello CSA folks, Life on your farm has been good this past week as we have made progress on catching up on major weeding projects, so your crops will have room to grow. Most of the seeding has been on winter crops of cabbage, cauliflower, and sprouting broccoli. These crops will be for those of…
Good evening CSA family, We have several new crops that became available today for a more diverse mix for you this week. We have had a break on broccoli but a new planting developed enough today to find enough for each family. Also we were able to find a few green beans too. The first…
Hello CSA family, A good hot evening to everyone from your farmers here in St. Paul. We are surviving another tough day growing your veggies. Our crew has done a good job keeping the crops going through this highly unusual hot spell, leaving early whenever they could. Isn’t it amazing to be looking forward to…
Hello fellow farmers! We have been enjoying working with all of you this year. It is a delight to have this large farm “family” of over 100 family units. It seems like we are just about cleaned up hoeing the berries or onions and then we look around and see some more to do. Now…
This last year was rewarding for us as we saw all of you members getting your produce. That has been true all this winter as many winter members have been enjoying the greens and storage items. We are getting your info out a little earlier than normal because there are a few projects to work…
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here we are with some nice sunny weather after nearly 3” of rain this weekend. I’ve been thinking that we would be working some pretty dry ground this spring the way it was going, but that will not be an issue now. We keep being amazed at how God is providing…
Hello at the end of an absolutely beautiful day! We certainly live on the good end of our country this year. It is hard to imagine what the folks in Boston and other east coast states have had to endure the last couple of months. Our ground is dry enough that we have disked a…
Hello CSA friends, Is this spring or what?!? I always expect some dry days in February with some drying wind but it’s usually not this warm. These temperatures may bring on our overwintering crops a little sooner which would be good. Our choices of produce are pretty limited right now, but we have enough to…
Hello to all you CSA folks on a beautiful Ground Hog Day afternoon. It is a nice break after the early morning rain. Maybe February will be wetter than January as we are to have rain all week and into next week too. The .83” we had yesterday and this morning is nearly 1/3 of…
Good evening again CSA members, The rain this last weekend substantially increased the monthly rainfall total on an otherwise drier than normal January, and for that matter, the whole winter so far. We had about ½” for the first half of the month, then around 2 ¼” in 3 days! With clearer weather we have…