Rising Phoenix Community Farm

06/19/2026

This week in the high tunnel, the addition of over 400 pepper plants! On Saturday, we had another work day and members Cori and SK helped us get all our peppers transplanted. No small feat! Then today, John w**ded the tunnel, while I pruned and trellised the tomatoes. It's amazing how long it took but it looks pretty darn good now! John finished up the walk ways with a sprinkle of a cover crop of crimson clover that will create a w**d barrier, green mulch and a nice path.

Before and after shots of the West and East sides of the tunnel.

06/18/2026

Our friends down at Denham Run Bar & Grill are gonna do some serious stuff with our veggies this summer! Excited to taste the results.

Lettuce create some delicious specials! Thanks Rising Phoenix Community Farm!!

06/17/2026

CSA Week 2:
Flowered bok choi, radishes, 2 mini heads of romaine, collard greens, lettuce mix, bok choi microgreens, oregano and rhubarb for farm shares.
So much green! It looks like they're all glowing.

We were very bummer that all our plantings of bok choi have bolted. In the past we've grown baby sized and they bolted so we thought full-sized might be tougher. Nope. Our springs are just too unpredictable to count on just cool conditions. This spring we went from cool to hot and dry and that's not ideal for bok choi, or any plants really. Despite the bolting, the flowered bok choi is still delicious! We've been chopping it up and using it in stir fries and fried rice.

06/12/2026

Finally getting some much needed rain, with almost 2" in two days. Our plants, and well, are particularly grateful and these farmers are happy for one less daily task of constant irrigating.

06/09/2026

CSA week 1!
Phew, it took a lot of work to get to this first week. The weather threw a lot of curve balls, that's for sure. But, despite all that, we're proud of this first share and can't wait for all the salads and ALL THINGS RHUBARB!

In shares:
Rhubarb, chives, yellow storage onion (from our root cellar), radishes, spring mix, mini romaine, spicy microgreens and kale.

06/08/2026

Just a *van load* of microgreens coming your way tomorrow for our first CSA delivery of the season!

06/04/2026

Spotted the first tomato flowers blooming in the high tunnel. That means we're about a month out from fruit. Lord help us.

06/02/2026

An uplifting story to disrupt your newsfeed. So fun to read the history of Pine County and featuring our farming friends The Gothic Farmstead!

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/01/pine-city-minnesota-honored-with-a-marker-for-hosting-first-rural-pride-event-in-the-us?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demo0dxq2mk1&fbclid=IwY2xjawSLLj5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEecsD5pjGa6lXSpnmkUNXy8hfdhJncn1HXVFO9jHM1RaqdmuClm4PtdpXyALo_aem_n3N66OkF7nihjhdial3raQ

In 2005, East Central Minnesota Pride hosted its first Pride celebration in Pine City. Years later, the small town continues to be a growing LGBTQ+ community.

05/29/2026

This year we received a grant from to give our greenhouse an upgrade in two ways: one, new improvements to the structure itself (more on that later) and two, in the way that we seed some crops. We invested in a new Paperpot system. Paperpots are an accordion style chain of paper cells that you seed into, then after 2-4 weeks, you plant in the ground. This specialized transplanter then allows us to drag the chain out, leaving a long line of plants. We started 600 FEET of snap peas in these trays, then transplanted them in the field two weeks ago. They're already 6 inches tall. The beauty of this planting method is that you get better germination and once planted, get more established plants in the ground *before* the w**ds have started growing. So far we've planted scallions and peas and have lettuce, beets and herbs on the docket to go in next. Can't wait to see how it goes!

Also shout out to:
*Small Works Farm, in WI for the paperpot chains and trays
* for the seeder that is an original transplanter.
*And also thanks to for all the online tutorials!