Now taking orders for pigs and chickens
This week we have some heat, so we hope the peppers, eggplant, and sweet potatoes take off! Maybe more of the green peppers will turn red. After 2″ of rain last Wednesday and Thursday, this week’s predicted rain missed us, and we were able to set out broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale for fall. The…
Read MoreSun and weeding
This week we have sunshine! We spent a lot of time weeding because last week was simply too wet. We still plan to plant and seed more crops for fall. The ground should rototill up nice this evening for seed beds to be filled tomorrow. We have more plants to go out that should produce…
Read MoreHigh tunnel taking shape
My walkabout yesterday revealed flowers on a new green bean crop, zucchini plants (seemingly) doubling size overnight, and tender cilantro and dill shoots maturing. It’s also great to see the beginnings of our high tunnel taking shape! After digging out post holes yesterday, today’s job for the guys is putting ground posts in concrete. One…
Read MoreNew high tunnel arrives
The heat we need for sweet peppers, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes seems slow in coming. This is a different kind of summer. We have begun plantings for fall. It seems so far away with the calendar still on July, but the students who work for me are showing the usual itch about going to back…
Read MoreSign up for Fall shares
KCAU Sioux City will stop by the Sioux Center market Wednesday, probably around 9:45 after visiting the farm at 9am, and they’d love to talk to some of you about our efforts to crowdfund a high tunnel. Please stop and say hi if you’d like to put in a good word for The Cornucopia! It’s…
Read MoreHome stretch for the crowdfunding campaign
What an unusually cool week. Zucchini and eggplant are starting to produce. It looks like the okra plants did not get enough heat to get started. We planted them to try something new to most of us, because we had requests for okra last year. There is a big gap in our seeding and planting…
Read MoreHilling potatoes
We are seeding in the greenhouse to start plants for fall. Yes, summer just arrived, and already we are thinking about what you can eat in October! Make plans to join our CSA for the fall, we have room, and all it takes is $300 to reserve your spot. We are going to hill potatoes…
Read MoreWaiting for the sun
This week we are looking for the sun to shine and dry out the ground. We are not flooded, but we are saturated. (Sound familiar?) It was strange this morning compared to previous mornings; there was no threat of rain, the wind was blowing the grass dry, and the sun was shining! It disappears behind…
Read MoreWe’ll be on “Proud to be a Hometown Farmer” this week.
What a beautiful day! We are looking forward to dry weather and opportunities to plant seeds and do some transplanting. We will also be tilling in some sections that have become overrun by weeds. The potatoes are flowering, which is often very nice to look at. Normally they have been hilled (http://www.garden.org/foodguide/browse/veggie/potatoes_care/571) twice by this…
Read MoreStormy Weather
Well, we made it through a few more storms over the weekend! I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but we’re going on week three where we have not had much opportunity to seed, weed or feed because of the moisture. But we are thankful that, unlike areas north of us, we got an…
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