Shakefork Community Farm

10/09/2026

10/08/2026

One thing I really appreciate about the way we harvest chickens on our farm: literally nothing is wasted. All the blood, feathers, guts, gizzard sacks, gall bladders and inedible bits go right into the center of our active compost pile to fire it up!

Those nutrients stay right here on our farm, becoming compost that feeds the soil that grows your food.

That’s a part of chicken harvest day we’re especially proud of.

When you buy a Shakefork chicken, you’re buying more than really good meat. You’re supporting birds raised with care and a regenerative farm where even the inedible bits help build next season’s fertility!

10/06/2026

Tasty fresh greens and fall colors abound at the today!

Come see us! We’re here till 6p, today and thru October 💚

CSA week 19 is a heavy one! Family shares are 15 pounds of fall flavors in a box! Enjoy!

10/01/2026

Said we’d get ’er done in September, and by golly, we did it! 🔨🎉

Nothing like the last day of the month to keep a promise. 😉

After 17 seasons, our trusty hoop barn has a fresh new skin and a whole lot of life ahead of it.

Here’s to dry hay, dry feed, dry onions… and peace of mind when the rain comes.

Big love to Kevin Cunningham and every hand that helped make it happen.

We’re calling this one DONE! 🙌

10/01/2026

Week 18, and still so much goodness coming from these fields! 🍂🌱

As we savor this season’s harvests, we’re already dreaming—and planning—for the next.

CSA members, mark your calendars: our 2027 Early Renewal Campaign opens Wednesday, October 7 and closes Friday, October 16!

Renew early for the best price of the season, flexible payment options, and a little thank-you treat from One Wing Provisions.

Your commitment now helps us plant the seeds for another abundant year.

More details coming soon. We’d love to grow for you again! 💚

09/28/2026

I guess he really does trust me 🥰

😂

09/26/2026

It’s been a super intense week on the farm — keeping up with harvests, egg pack, animal care, CSA, markets… all while making some BIG progress on our barn re-roofing!

Look at how it’s coming along! 🙌

And look at how FULL the CoolBot is! 😍

This time of year is such a funny collision of seasons: summer crops are still hanging on while fall greens, roots and storage crops are coming in strong. The abundance is real.

After being off-plaza last week, we are SO excited to return to our regular spot at the Arcata Farmers’ Market tomorrow with the best of what the season has to offer.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS:
🍓 Strawberries
🌽 Sweet corn
🥬 Escarole, endives, romaine, kale & salad mixes
🥕 Carrots, radishes & broccoli raab
🍅 Tomatoes, cucumbers & zucchini
🫑 Bell peppers & sweet C***o di Toro peppers
🍆 Eggplant
🥔 Potatoes
🧅 Onions
🌿 Basil
🥒 Bulk pickling cucumbers

Plus our really good pasture-raised eggs, along with pasture-raised chicken & grass-finished beef from our regenerative certified pastures.

It’s a beautiful moment in the season, and we’re bringing A LOT of food to town.

Come find us back in our regular spot on the Arcata Plaza. 💛

See you soon!

09/25/2026

Every week, we pack food for real families in our community.

And it’s about so much more than a box of vegetables.

It’s knowing where your food comes from.
Supporting the people who grow it.
Feeding families right here in our own community.

It’s professional training, skill building, meaningful work, and a deeper connection to place.

It’s community supporting farms —> and farms feeding communities.

Week after week, season after season, we’re so grateful to grow for you. 💚

🌱 2027 CSA shares open soon!
Stay tuned!

09/18/2026

We’re making it happen!

This hoop barn was the very first structure Kevin and his dad built when we bought our farm in 2009. Seventeen seasons later, it’s still one of the hardest-working buildings on the farm.

Dry space is critical on a farm—and there is never enough of it. Especially when the heavy-duty tarp roof over that dry space is 17 years old and increasingly leaky!

This barn houses essential equipment and provides dry storage for hay, soil amendments, chicken feed, and storage crops like onions, potatoes, and winter squash.

The back end periodically houses our oxen, too, where they help build up a deep bedding pack—one of the key ingredients in our on-farm compost program.

Re-skinning this barn before winter has been high on our list, and I’m so grateful to see it finally happening—and grateful for all the hands making it possible, especially the project management of Kevin Cunningham

Mas Masumoto writes in Four Seasons in Five Senses, “The weather in September is not to be trusted.”

So we sure are grateful for this stretch of dry September weather. Here’s hoping we get that new skin buttoned up before the rains return!

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09/16/2026

Local abundance and fall flavors are on full display at the Fortuna Farmers’ Market and in our Week 16 CSA farm shares. 🍂

And fall is feeling mighty fine on the farm, now that we’ve surrendered to the shifting season.

We’re loving the changing colors, the softer light, the cooling mornings, and the way the landscape seems to settle in around us this time of year.

There’s still plenty to do, of course. We have some big goals for September, including putting a new “skin” on our hoop barn - the very first building we constructed here on the farm, 17 years ago.

That old barn shelters equipment, farm supplies, hay, and bins upon bins of onions, winter squash, potatoes, and other storage crops that will carry us through the colder months. And after 17 years, the roof is showing its age. We’re not entirely confident it will make it through another stormy Humboldt winter, so replacing it has moved firmly from the “someday” list to the “this month” list.

Such is fall on the farm: gathering in the abundance while also looking ahead, buttoning things up, and getting ready for whatever winter brings.

For now, we’re soaking up these beautiful boxes, full market tables, and all the unmistakable flavors of the season.

Week 16. Fall has arrived. And we’re glad to be here.

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