We are a diversified vegetable CSA farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, offering shares of produce. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.
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By enrolling in our CSA, you get a bag (or two) of seasonal, grown here on the farm, vegetables per week through the growing season. We grow year round, too!
Wondering what to make for Thanksgiving this year? Feeling overwhelmed with how to tackle all the side dishes, plus dessert, and of course the turkey?
To get all your questions answered, some hands-on practice, and a delicious meal to boot, sign up for Foodies, Farms, and Friends Thanksgiving Cooking Class!
Our first planting in the new high tunnel - for the Winter Share!! We planted some bunching broccoli, kale, collards, and bok choy that will be big and luscious in time for our winter share starting in December. We'll be opening sign-ups soon so get excited!
Very rarely does a company completely exceed expectations but sure did! My Spader failed last month and I took it to them. I’m 2 weeks they basically rebuilt the whole thing, cleaned all the bent and broken metal, and now it looks brand new! Thanks and for introducing me to them!
How appropriate I get stuck behind this truck today. Our delivery van broke down and in my attempt to get the produce there on time, I broke most of all rules of the road. But this truck’s message was perfectly placed in my life. Thanks
The One Acre crew! After a very hot week we took a lunch break down at the river. Thanks crew for all your hard work so far this season!!
Come to our little pop-up market tomorrow! It will be pay-what-you-can, here at the farm in Dickerson from 11am-2pm.
We'll have cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, okra, herbs, watermelon, and more!
We've got honey! Well actually of Honey Effects has honey, produced by bees on our farm. The jar on the right is from the One Acre Farm hives this spring. He believes this honey is darker due to our buckwheat cover crops; the bees love buckwheat flowers!
We'll be offering 1/2 pound jars to members in the online store starting next week! Don't miss this delectable source of local sweetness!
🍂🍂🍂 Fall Party Announcement 🍂🍂🍂
Come join us on October 15th at the farm for a celebration of the year's harvest and CSA community. We will have food, games for kids, and live music from Herb & Hanson!
https://www.oneacrefarm.com/post/welcoming-fall-and-a-party
Whether you’ve already started decorating with pumpkins and drinking apple cider with gusto or are clinging to the last tomato sandwiches and mourning warmer days – fall is officially upon us. Gazing out of the window, one could be fooled by the bright blue skies and still-green trees into think...
Took the team (minus sorry Stefan)go carting on this rainy day. So much fun to actually spend time together off farm with this incredible group.
Support Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve (One Acre Farm is nestled in the 93,000 acres of farmland!) by biking around the countryside of the county! A very special event for a very special place!
Come ride the Rustic Roads in support of Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve. New this year- Farmers Market Festival at the finish.
https://www.oneacrefarm.com/post/starting-a-new-chapter
Hello One Acre Farm Members, It has been quite some time since I, Farmer Mike, have written to you. My reason for taking over this week’s newsletter is two-fold: 1) Charlotte needed a break, 2) It only makes sense if I break the bad news to you. After an amazing four years of service, this Septemb...
Community Food Rescue makes donating and selling fresh local produce to our local food center (Manna Food Center) and food security organizations possible. CFR depends on volunteers to pick up produce from local farms and deliver to organizations that will disburse the produce to food insecure families. 🤩🍉CFR is actively RECRUITING VOLUNTEER food runners.🤩🍅🫑The work of a CFR volunteer is ESSENTIAL for food security and access in this region.
Please share this post widely to get more people on board with this fantastic program. It's fulfilling work, and can be completed in just a couple hours, or less. Follow this link to learn more. Click on DELIVER to sign up! Thank you!
www.communityfoodrescue.org
New blog post explaining where we are in the season - it's a time of turnover as we mow down our cold weather crops (like broccoli and kale) and transition to hot weather crops (eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers!).
Newsletter for Week 6 of the 2022 Summer CSA Season Welcome back from break! We hope you had an enjoyable holiday weekend. At the farm, we’ve been working away catching up with big projects like harvesting all the onions, garlic, and cabbage. Just today, Farmer Mike mowed down all the plants in th...
Had a nice team outing to to celebrate everyone doing a fantastic job. Even with all the craziness of the past couple of weeks, the produce has looked gorgeous. We are so proud of this crew. Won’t be where we are today without each and every person in this photo.
We made it through Week 1 of our summer CSA!! It was quite a ride… Our walk-in cooler broke down, our delivery van broke down and had to be towed, even our stinkin’ label maker broke! We drove through a flash flood and severe thunderstorm and battled through intense heat. Even with all that, the veggies looked fantastic. It was a beautiful share and it seems from the nice notes we’ve received that many families are happy. That’s really what matter, right? Even when sh*t hits the fan, the farm can do good. 💚
Our version of vertical farming 😂. Before we got these mobile shelving units, we would bring harvested veggies in the wash shed and place them on the floor. We could barely move around there were so many bins! Going ⬆️UP👆was a creative idea of Farmer Mike’s, keeping our walking paths a lot clearer. We can easily move the shelves, as well, making it easier to grab the bins for cleaning.
This is as close to perfection as farming gets. Beautiful spring day doing fulfilling work, feeling satisfied as we cross things off the list. The plants look fantastic and we’re allowing ourselves to celebrate the accomplishment. Just for a moment 😉.
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PINK POWER. Look at these gorgeous pink and blue (and pearl) oyster mushrooms!! 💖💞💗💓🌸💝💙🦋🐳🦕🫐🐋🐟🥏
Finally some beautiful May days. Look at that sky! Things are ticking along with all brassicas growing strongly. Planted eggplant and peppers today. Tried out a new wheel hoe for weeding!
Some brave souls came out to the farm today for our Annual Spring Farm Tour. We talked about soil health, what’s growing on the farm, and how the heck we deal with all the rocks. Also in attendance were the amazing and 💚💚💚
Spring Farm Tour is *ON* Rain or Shine - https://mailchi.mp/16371b12938c/spring-farm-tour-is-on
Fresh, local, sustainably grown oyster mushrooms. It doesn't get any better. Learn more about our mushrooms; sign up here.
Rain or Shine, the Spring Farm Tour is *ON* for tomorrow, Saturday, May 7th. Farming doesn't stop for rain, right? 😜
Bring your rain gear, pack some snacks and some drinks, and come hang out! It'll be a parred down version of a "sunny day tour" but fun nonetheless. Hope to see you there!
One Acre Farm worked with Community Farm Rescue to keep bolted arugula from the compost pile.
Winter arugula retails for $12 per pound, but the crop could have been a total loss for One Acre Farm , located in Dickerson, Maryland. Fortunately, this story ends well, and the prized spicy, leafy green ended up on dinner plates rather than in the compost pile, thanks to two Community Food Rescue....
It takes a village. We put on the plastic for the mushroom tunnel today. This tunnel will be a fruiting chamber for the gorgeous mushrooms has been growing for the season! We’re all really proud of this good lookin’ tunnel and think Stefan did a fantastic job leading this project. It was great to have an impromptu helping hand from , too!
It’s a long-game strategy here at the farm… In the first photo you’ll see a small high tunnel we bought from a neighbor down the road, lined with landscape fabric and bordered with long wooden planks. LONG WOODEN PLANKS?? Are these guys nuts?!? We know, we know, wood bows and breaks and isn’t necessarily the most weather resistant material if it isn’t pressure treated. But it is with the proper sealant. told is about a really neat product we could use as a protectant for the wood, Vermont Natural Coatings, a natural wood preservative, that she learned about from Ben Hartman . No pressure treatment!! 💯
The strength of the local food system is dependent on many things but one of them, that we know we can do right now, is create opportunities for farmers to come together, share, and learn. On Friday we hosted a gathering for food and flower growers in Montgomery County, the "Mini MoCo Farmers Conference."
It was a lot of fun, not only to be together, but also to brainstorm, discuss challenges and applaud triumphs, and be open with each other. Our goal is to make this community about support, not competition.
gave a great presentation on cover crops with useful and impressive photos of their operation; delved into the scary world (for farmers) of marketing and sales strategy and helped us understand it more; led a discussion on being flexible on the farm and making changes as we see fit; Farmer Mike of mediated a passionate discussion of issues farmers should be advocating for in MoCo; and Farm Manager Charlotte of OAF conducted a immersive and interactive breakout session that focused on being there for our peers through "Active Listening."
We hope this won't be the first "mini conference" of its kind and that we continue to be there for each other in our quest to create a vibrant and resilient local food system.
We've been busy at the farm creating a suitable space for future mushroom operation expansion. New blog post up now.
Since December, Stefan has been using the heated high tunnel to grow One Acre Farm's mushrooms in.... the operation needed a new plan.
One Acre Farm Owner and Farmer Michael Protas and Farm Manager Charlotte Henderson spoke with the Hill Report about soil health, what a CSA is all about, and in general, small-scale sustainable farming. https://gallantgoldhillreporter.com/2022/02/09/is-there-a-csa-near-you-one-acre-farm/
Get *Early Bird* Pricing for the 2022 CSA Season - https://mailchi.mp/f4f8d0d726f5/get-early-bird-pricing-for-the-2022-csa-season
Lettuce to match the bright green duct tape on well loved winter boots.
Beautiful winter sunset on the farm.
Winter Share CSA bags looking *good* lined up and neat in a row at Hill’s Kitchen in Capitol Hill, DC. 💯🙌 The veggies are in their element at the store 😉.
Helping hands here on the farm. The girls are prepping the seed packets we’ve been receiving from , , and , readying them for our seed starter greenhouse, .
The farm at sunset after snow dusted the fields.
Still growing throughout the winter and making donations for Manna Food Center and its partners across Montgomery County. Smaller donations than the summer, but still fresh and delicious.
Best Brussels Sprouts evah.
Some pics from the Pick-Your-Own Day yesterday. Our CSA members, at the end of the fall season, can come out to the farm and harvest their own veggies, in anticipation of Thanksgiving feast. Everyone filled their bags while enjoying the nice day. Fun day for all!
Deadon is a gorgeous cabbage we are growing for the first time this year. It is unique because it can stay in the fields all winter (“overwintering”).
18608 Wasche Road
Dickerson, MD
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Winter Share CSA bags looking *good* lined up and neat in a row at Hill’s Kitchen in Capitol Hill, DC. 💯🙌 The veggies are in their element at the store 😉. . . . #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocal #localbusiness #workingtogether #community #communityagriculture #communitysupportedagriculture #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #localfarm #localveggies #freshfood #freshveggies #freshlocalveggies #knowyourfarmer #knowyourfarmerknowyourfood #grateful #gratitude #winterveggies #eatlocal
Pickin potatoes today. Kennebec and Dark Red Norland varieties. The rocky soil is giving us a run for our money! Lots of hand digging after using the potato picker. . . . #certifiednaturallygrown #mocoagreserve #mocomade #potatoes #diggingpotatoes #julywork #julyfarmwork #farmwork #smallbusiness #knowyourfarmer #localisthenewnormal
SOUND ON to hear the scream uttered by Charlotte as Mike hurls a large cabbage in her general direction. Otherwise, a very peaceful morning.
Need an activity with your kids? Come rock pick with us! #csa #farmfamily
Working before the rain!
Check out how community supported agriculture can become agriculture that supports our community! #csa #csaday #localbusiness #cng
Check out how community supported agriculture can become agriculture supporting our community.
Check out the video I had made to promote our amazing parnership with Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center!
Here is me clearing out the brush to “relocate” our groundhogs!
Now normally I wouldn’t share this, but this is farming to its core. On the hottest day of the year my pump breaks. Keep in mind I hate the feeling of the bottom of a pond, literally my biggest fear. But here I am 20 min ago for the 4th time in 30 minutes, trying to set the fixed pipe back in the bucket so it won’t suck up sludge. If my wife had asked me to go into the pond for her diamond necklace, I’d have said, we will get another one. Things we do for farming!!!
Ordering is open, only pickup date right now is at the farm during our spring tour. May 11th at 2pm If you can’t make that your, do not order. You don’t have to be a member to order! Video of new hens just to get more eyeballs! https://csa.farmigo.com/store/oneacrefarm#Tab=ahBzfmZhcm1pZ28tY3NhLWhyciYLEgRGYXJtGICA8J67-fUIDAsSCENhdGVnb3J5GICA8PP8joALDA
Our rooster is eyeing up the new ladies in the foreground. The older girls are in back. Hopefully everyone gets along.
Time for your moment of zen, if you can ignore tractor idling. Why do cows chew their cud? Come learn on may 19th at 1pm!
Using the tree as a back scratcher!
Plowing before the snow
Just successfully moved them to the best spot. You can’t say they don’t look happy now.
Your daily moment of zen, so cold they refuse to go outside!
Your moment of zen, it’s so cold even the chickens are staying inside!
Enjoy your moment of zen, it’s so cold even the chickens want to stay inside!
Your moment of zen. They usually live in a mobile coop but I thought I’d keep them in the barn w access to the barnyard for the winter months to keep them warm.
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