Root to Rise Gardens

10/14/2026

It’s the first week of our fall CSA 🍃🍂❄️

This week, small shares contain:
- Celery
- Cherry tomatoes
- mini Romaine
- green-stemmed Cauliflower
- Broccolini
- Cilantro
- Dill

Large shares contain all of the above plus salad turnips & zucchini/summer squash.

What is a CSA you might ask? It stands for “Community Supported Agriculture” and acts somewhat like a veggie box subscription. Our Fall CSA provides 6-weeks of veggies to members after the Red Lodge Farmers Market season ends. We’re sold out for this year, but if you’re interested in learning more for the future you can check our website.

If you missed out on the CSA, you can still find a selection of our veggies at Beartooth Market… we deliver every Thursday into December.

It’s definitely been a rollercoaster of a fall weather week. High 70s last week abruptly switched to cold and snow. We brought in some big storage veggie harvests, added extra row cover (up to 3 layers) to provide frost protection out in the field & fired up the heater in our Microgreens grow room.

The snow has melted, but seasonal fall temps remain. Our routine begins to shift as we spend frosty mornings drinking coffee & catching up on computer work and then hustle to harvest, wash & pack during the warmer parts of the day. In all the seasons the flow of our days is controlled to a large extent by daylight, temperature & weather. I’m grateful to experience the seasonal shifts & connection with the natural environment in this way 👩‍🌾

10/08/2026

Farmers in the wild 😉. Almost didn’t happen this year, but we snuck away for my first backpack of the season on an unusually balmy October weekend. Carving out enough time to take care of myself outside of garden & life responsibilities has been an ongoing work in progress over my nearly 10 years with the business. Didn’t knock that balance out of the park this year (an understatement 🤷‍♀️), but grateful for this bit of time away & ready for some systems planning for the future!

Back at the garden now & we’re prepping for an abrupt shift in the weather with a winter storm in the forecast. We’re taking in some big harvests of storage crops like purple daikon & watermelon radishes as well as pre-harvesting for the first week of our Fall CSA coming up next week. Extra row cover is going out and 🤞 most of the cold hardy veg remaining in the field will weather the storm ok 🍃🍂❄️

Looking for our veg this week? We’ll be delivering a fresh batch of microgreens, baby greens (baby lettuce, spinach, spring mix), kale, Easter egg radishes and cherry tomatoes to Beartooth Market midday today. Louisa’s Grill is back after their break & we’re excited to see what they whip up with a big order of our veg. You can also find our veg on the menus at Babcock & Miles Carbon County Steakhouse and Samurai Sue’s - Everyday Foods this week 💗

Fall is here with its wild ride of unpredictable weather… ready or not 😘

10/02/2026

Friday field walk on a gorgeous fall day 🍃🍂

Haven’t made a field walk post in a long time, but we’ve been doing the walk every Friday all season. It’s the one time each week that we pull back all of the row cover to assess what crops will be ready to harvest next week and what needs attention in terms of pest damage or w**d pressure.

Right now our field is looking pretty full and hopefully set up for a bountiful fall of harvests for Beartooth Market, our restaurant accounts & our fall CSA. Next week we’ll be doing our first bulk harvests of fall storage crops: watermelon & purple daikon radishes.

We’re taking a much needed break this weekend & getting some time away in the mountains so we won’t be at the bonus Red Lodge Farmers Market tomorrow. But, it will be a gorgeous day for market so get out there and support the vendors who are making it for one last hurrah at Lions Park! Find us at the winter markets Nov 14th & Dec 12th 💗

10/01/2026

October already?!?! And a few farm updates 👩‍🌾

Thanks to everyone who came out to Red Lodge Farmers Market last week (our final market of summer) and all season. We love sharing veggies with our community and getting to know our customers a little more each year. Continuing with the theme of time flying, it’s hard to believe this was already our 5th year growing in Red Lodge! That marks the longest I’ve been growing in one place and feels like a bit of a milestone. Hopefully many more seasons of veggies to come 💗

We won’t be attending the bonus market this Saturday, but please go out and support the vendors who are making it out for a last hurrah at Lions Park! We’ll be back at the winter markets inside at Roosevelt Center…. SAVE THE DATES: Nov 14th & Dec 12th 🥗

In the meantime, you can still find a selection of our veggies at Beartooth Market 💕. We’re delivering a fresh harvest of microgreens, baby greens, kale, radishes & cherry tomatoes today. We’re temporarily out of carrots while we wait for the next planting to size up. It should be ready in about 3 weeks. Thanks for gobbling up those sweet homegrown carrots this year… we’ll try to plant even more next season!

Our post-market CSA (sold out) begins Oct 14/15th. If you signed up, you’ll be receiving a reminder email with pickup details next week. We’re using the gap between market and CSA to catch up on things on (and off) the farm! This week we completed our final tomato harvest of the season bringing in several hundred pounds of ripe and green fruit. Most of these will continue to ripen in storage and be sold over the next month. Plus, a canning session for a big batch of green tomato salsa is in our future 😉. We’ll be taking out the tomato plants and transplanting fall lettuce to take their place in the next few days.

Schedules have been hard to pin down this year, but we’re also managing to sneak away for a bit of mountain time and R&R after a very busy summer season 🙏☮️💗

09/26/2026

It’s our final Red Lodge Farmers Market of the summer… TODAY 9-noon in Lions Park! From the first market to the second-to-last, thanks for making this a great market season 💗

Today we have:
- Cherry tomatoes (bumper crop of these sweet, seasonal treats) 🍅
- Garlic (in abundance… good for seed garlic & for eating) 🧄
- Leeks
- Broccolini (back in abundance) 🥦
- green-stemmed Cauliflower
- Fennel
- Napa cabbage
- Radicchio
- Bok choy
- Celery
- Zucchini & summer squash
- Easter egg radishes
- Salad turnips
- Carrots (limited)
- Beets (limited)
- Microgreens (pea shoots, sunflower shoots, purple radish, micro mix) 🌱
- Baby greens (arugula, baby lettuce, spinach, spring mix)
- big bags Braising Mix & stripped Green Kale
- Bunching greens (collards, Swiss chard)
- Herbs (cilantro, dill, mint, oregano, parsley, sage)
- edible Viola flowers
- farm logo Trucker Hats

We won’t be attending the bonus market on October 3rd, but please get out & support the vendors who can make it!

We continue to have veggies into late fall/early winter. Here’s where to find our veg post market:
- Beartooth Market (microgreens, baby greens, kale, radishes delivered weekly, plus carrots & tomatoes when available) 🥗
- on the menus of our restaurant accounts 💗
- post-market CSA (sold out… thank you!)
- Winter markets… save the dates for Red Lodge Farmers Market inside at Roosevelt Center on Nov 14th & Dec 12th 🎉

Hope to see you at market soon 😘

09/24/2026

The arrival of autumn. The shortening daylight is perceptible and we hustle to get each day’s tasks done by sunset, but are also given the gentle reminder that it’s time to start to slow down and take some rest.

Fall is transition time in the garden, the beginning of a very gradual ramp down and shift to planning mode. This week we pulled cucumbers from the tunnel, prepped beds, transplanted spinach & direct seeded baby greens. The tomatoes get another week or so before we harvest all fruits (green & ripe) of a decent size and flip those beds into Salanova lettuce plantings. Tunnel greens should be ready for the tail end of our Fall CSA and for holiday markets.

This Saturday will be our final Red Lodge Farmers Market of the summer season. Beautiful fall weather is in the forecast so come see us at Lions Park 9-noon. We won’t be attending the bonus October 3rd market, but please go out and support the other vendors for one last hurrah! And, save the dates for winter markets inside at Roosevelt Center on November 14th & Dec 12th! Thanks for a wonderful market season 🙏

Our Fall CSA runs Oct 14-Nov 19th. Shares are SOLD OUT. But, if you missed out, you’ll still be able to find our veg at Beartooth Market into November as long as the weather holds & supplies last. We’ll use the time between market and CSA to hopefully get away for a few days of mountain play time, but also just to regroup, organize after the busy summer and ready the farm for cooler weather. No gap in restaurant or grocery deliveries this year 💗

Thanks so much for shopping local & supporting our tiny farm! Hope to see you at market Saturday 👩‍🌾

09/21/2026

Happy last day of summer 🌞.

Our latest newsletter is out: https://mailchi.mp/5155847a7b61/weekly_quarterlynews21sept26 It’s a combo weekly & quarterly edition. This will be our last weekly newsletter of the year (unless you’re a CSA member). Quarterly newsletters come out on the solstice & equinox and we’ll resume the weekly news next June. Hop on over to our website to subscribe.

Thanks to everyone who came out to Red Lodge Farmers Market last Saturday. We moved inside to Roosevelt Center to get out of the rain. Special thanks to Mimi & Karen who helped me get ready in an abbreviated set up time and to Jenn from the Roosevelt and Linda & Todd of Pick and Peck for helping me schlep veggies. Our final market of the summer season is coming up on Saturday back at Lions Park (barring extreme weather).

Inside the newsletter you’ll find a recap our summer growing season plus leek recipes. Thanks for following along on our farming journey for our 5th season growing in Red Lodge 💗👩‍🌾

‘Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying “no” to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.’ ~Frances Moore Lappé

09/19/2026

Red Lodge Farmers Market is TODAY same time (9-noon), but different place… LOCATION CHANGE to inside at Roosevelt Center out of the rain ☔️ 🥗💗

Despite a few light frosts this week, the garden is still producing an abundance. We’re bringing:
- Fennel (is back!)
- Easter egg radishes (finally back!!!)
- Baby greens in abundance (arugula, baby lettuce, spinach & spring mix)
- Bok Choy
- Cherry tomatoes
- Garlic 🧄
- Green-stemmed cauliflower
- Broccolini (limited)
- Celery
- Leeks
- Napa cabbage
- Microgreens (pea shoots, sunflower shoots, purple radish, micro mix)
- Radicchio
- Beets
- Carrots 🥕🥕🥕
- Salad turnips
- Bunching greens (Swiss chard, collards, lacinato kale)
- big bags Braising Mix & stripped Green Kale
- Herbs (dill, chives, cilantro, mint, oregano, parsley, sage)
- edible flowers (nasturtiums, viola)
- farm logo trucker Hats (organic cotton & recycled poly)

Stay out of the rain, come see us and all the other great vendors inside & stock up on local goodies for your weekend & the week ahead!

A few other announcements: This is our second to last market of the summer season (we’ll be at market Sept 26th, but missing the bonus Oct 3rd market). After market ends, you can still find our veg at Beartooth Market and on the menus of our restaurant accounts into Oct/Nov as weather allows & supplies last. And, we’ll be at the pre-Thanksgiving & pre-Christmas editions of market inside at the Roosevelt (stay tuned for dates).

Thanks for shopping small & supporting local food & farms… you’ve made our 5th season growing in Red Lodge a great one 🙏💗👩‍🌾

09/18/2026

Farmers Market is moving inside tomorrow… come see us at the Roosevelt Center 9-12! Stock up on celery, leeks, carrots, turnips and more for soup weather ☔️. Plus, some of the last summer goodies like cherry tomatoes & zucchini 🍅

Rain or Shine Red Lodge Farmers' Market is still happening!
9-12 at the Roosevelt Center