08/16/2026
While everyone gets a front row seat on what’s happenings around the farm market, here’s an update of what’s happening behind the scenes around the farm!
Right now, we are DEEP into our growing season. Fields are being tilled and replanted. New crops are still going into the ground. Our greenhouses have been cleared out and are getting ready for their fall adventures. And for our crews? It’s harvest, harvest, harvest!
The crops have been beautifully bountiful this year, and we truly couldn’t be more pleased or more thankful.
But that certainly doesn’t mean the season has been perfect.
One of the ways we keep fresh vegetables coming throughout the season is through succession planting. Instead of planting a crop just once, we plant it again and again throughout the growing season. As one planting finishes, hopefully another is getting ready to harvest.
Hopefully being the key word. 😉
Because not every planting makes it.
Too much rain in a low field can mean losing an entire planting of broccoli. A stretch of extreme heat can change our plans overnight. And then there’s our ongoing disagreement with the local wildlife…
Don’t get us wrong, we love having wildlife around the farm.
But when the birds go through 80% of a sweet corn field the DAY before we’re supposed to harvest, or the deer decide to eat the center out of an entire planting of green leaf lettuce…
Well, now they’ve entered enemy territory. 😂🦌🌽
Then there are the everyday mechanical surprises.
A tractor implement loses a bushing. A field truck’s alternator kicks the bucket in the middle of the field. Something breaks at exactly the moment you need it most.
You fix it, change the plan, and keep moving.
That’s farming.
Some days are beautiful harvests and perfect rows. Other days are mud, broken equipment, eaten crops, and figuring out Plan B… followed shortly by Plans C and D.
But through all of it, the harvest keeps coming and this year’s abundance has given us an awful lot to be grateful for. ❤️
And lately, we’ve started noticing another little change around the farm…
The long, hot summer days are beginning to give way to cooler nights.
Around here, that’s one of the first little whispers that fall is on its way. 🍂🎃
And believe us… there’s already plenty happening behind the scenes for that, too. 🌾🌽😉
