Long Step Farm

Long Step Farm Certified organic veggie & herb farm focused on soil health, ecological balance & no-till growing practices, based in Frenchtown, MT.

Find us at Missoula farmers markets May-Oct, check out our summer CSA or follow our substack, Long Step Chronicles.

Our incredible crew is all set up until 1pm! Swing on by for fresh cut greens, radishes, bok choy, and fresh herbs. We’...
05/30/2026

Our incredible crew is all set up until 1pm! Swing on by for fresh cut greens, radishes, bok choy, and fresh herbs. We’re also still selling plant starts if you have any room in your garden, and bountiful hanging baskets. See y’all there!

Morning Missoula! We’re all set up this morning with tons of fresh cut greens, lettuce heads, herbs and our first bok c...
05/23/2026

Morning Missoula! We’re all set up this morning with tons of fresh cut greens, lettuce heads, herbs and our first bok choy of the season as well as tons of plant starts! It’s time to plant outside friends! We also have our hanging baskets (edible flowers! fresh herbs! perennial herbs!) on sale. Hope to see yall! 💃🏼❤️🌱

38 weeks. As the day gets closer that baby sister might decide to make her appearance, I’ve been working to find farm ta...
05/22/2026

38 weeks. As the day gets closer that baby sister might decide to make her appearance, I’ve been working to find farm tasks I can still reasonably help with. Computer stuff obviously, but that’s no fun 🙃 I can keep our inside seeding schedule going and fiddle with plants in the greenhouse. I can still water and pot up and can still walk around and make lists of things for other people to do 🫣Today I thought, mowing! I can do mowing! And I could, kind of. Except my belly is literally just slightly too big for the mower, which meant baby sis got jiggled and the whole endeavor had to be cut a little short. I did manage to mow the outer perimeter of the fields and get our lower field area started, where we will soon (very late!!) plant potatoes as well as winter squash and much later in the year start building a new high tunnel. So exciting! So much happening! Including, hopefully soon, a baby! That’s all. See ya tomorrow 😘

See you tomorrow from 8am-1pm with all of our mixed greens, a good variety of herbs (mint! oregano! chives! sage!), our...
05/22/2026

See you tomorrow from 8am-1pm with all of our mixed greens, a good variety of herbs (mint! oregano! chives! sage!), our first bok choy bundles of the season, lots of plant starts and a sale on our hanging baskets! Looks like a gorgeous sunny day, and after that big frost last weekend, this weekend is finally looking like a good time to plant all those hot crops out. Hurray!

Cold nights, foggy mornings and succession upon succession of lettuce heads. Rain, hail, thunder, wind and sun, all in o...
05/21/2026

Cold nights, foggy mornings and succession upon succession of lettuce heads. Rain, hail, thunder, wind and sun, all in one day. Must be May in Montana✨✨✨

All this spring rain, wind (and frost 🥶) has me thinking about the abundance of summer to come! We still have spots in o...
05/19/2026

All this spring rain, wind (and frost 🥶) has me thinking about the abundance of summer to come! We still have spots in our summer CSA, which starts in just a few short weeks. Link in bio ✨

We’re all set up this morning with a ton of gorgeous big lettuce heads, lots of greens and herbs plus hanging baskets a...
05/16/2026

We’re all set up this morning with a ton of gorgeous big lettuce heads, lots of greens and herbs plus hanging baskets and plant starts. Here until 1pm!

Been a busy week out at the farm! We finished the cat tunnel, planted more peppers, cucs, basil and storage tomatoes (!!...
05/15/2026

Been a busy week out at the farm! We finished the cat tunnel, planted more peppers, cucs, basil and storage tomatoes (!!) in said tunnel, pruned all our high tunnel tomatoes (they’re getting so big!), did lots of weeding and seeding and other planting and generally soaked up this week of spring thunderstorms, rain, wind and sunshine. Oh and harvest! This week we have some huge gorgeous lettuce heads coming to tomorrow, as well as a variety of cut greens, herbs and lots more plant starts and hanging baskets. See you tomorrow!

Farming is so much more than simply tending seeds, pulling weeds and harvesting vegetables. There’s a lot of that, but t...
05/13/2026

Farming is so much more than simply tending seeds, pulling weeds and harvesting vegetables. There’s a lot of that, but there’s also a lot of deconstructing, carrying heavy things, scheming, building… you get the idea. This week our crew has been working on moving our caterpillar tunnel - it’s a structure that we built two years ago on the farm and has helped us immensely as both early season space (to bring veggies to May markets!) and protected late season space for hot crops. That said, one of our main tools to maintain soil health around here is corp rotation. We do our best to never grow the same crops in the same beds each year, with most on a multi-year rotation at minimum, which means changing our maps and crop placement year to year. For us, that also meant this year we needed to change the placement of the cat tunnel. The structure is pretty cool - while fairly durable, they’re meant to be “movable”, and this was our first experience trying to do just that. I was skeptical of how long it would take but our crew crushed it and it went great! Hello new field perspective. The direct seeded area is now all open and we will start planting hot crops into the new covered space in the cat. I’m so grateful for our incredible crew this year!

We’re all set up this morning with tons of plant starts, a sale on our hanging baskets, and lots of veggies! Lots going...
05/09/2026

We’re all set up this morning with tons of plant starts, a sale on our hanging baskets, and lots of veggies! Lots going on this weekend in Missoula, from graduation and Mother’s Day events to the happening downtown this evening. So much good stuff! Hope to see y’all ✨

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