Tag Harvest

Thanksgiving Harvest

Last week started off very busy with harvesting lots of vegetables for the special pre-Thanksgiving farmers’ market and CSA pick up. Then Thursday it was time to relax by welcoming friends and family to the dinner table for Thanksgiving.  It…

Frost is Coming

My days have been spent bringing in the storage crops before the frost hits.  That means harvesting the mature winter squashes, popcorn, and dried beans (a new one this year). A light frost can happen any day now, which is…

Time to Buy Cover Crop Seed

Brrrr the mornings are cold out there.  I wore my boots this week for the first time since the early spring. There is plenty to do in the field to stay warm, recently I’ve been harvesting popcorn, potatoes, tomatoes, kale,…

Chilly Mornings, Warm Days

The mornings have become quite chilly and the evenings are getting dark, sooner than I’d like.  But even though fall is in the air I’m still harvesting summer crops, tons of tomatoes, summer squash, basil, and the last of the…

How is it the End of Summer?

I can’t believe it is the end of August, where has the summer gone? But with the end of summer comes the tasty flavors of fall! The winter squash is looking gorgeous, many different varieties are sizing up and soon…

Quarter Acre FARM Dinner

Join us this Wednesday, August 21st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at The Epicurean Connection 122 West Napa St, Sonoma for an evening of organic produce, farm talk, and a celebration of this summer’s bounty        

Cherry Tomatoes

I am harvesting lots and lots of cherry tomatoes.  It sure is summer when I can spend the afternoon harvesting every cherry tomato I can find and then the next day there are tons more ready to be harvest.  …

Lots of Harvesting

The summer crops are just beginning to be harvested. With last week’s arrival of cucumbers and blackberries, I went out to survey the tomato patch.  As I walked all of the 800 row feet I found a few ripe cherry…