When the Rubber Hits the Road
August 12-18, 2019 By one definition, farmers are in the transporting business. We move soil around to prepare the fields for the little seeds we
Market Shopping c.2019: 2019 Summer CSA, Week 13
August 5-11, 2019 One reward we receive for our work is the enthusiastic feedback from our customers at the farmer’s market. We see and hear
Corn is Complicated: 2019 Summer CSA, Week 12
July 29- August 4, 2019 Corn is biologically tricky to grow and make look good. Corn is in thousands of foods, drinks, cosmetics, and plastics.
Mother Nature Goes Hi-Tech: 2019 Summer CSA, Week 11
July 22-28, 2019 In our quest to bring you responsibly grown food, we have access to technologies our ancestors could not even imagine. Apart from
Good Habits & Our Top Ten List: CSA Week 22
September 25 – 28, 2017 We know you have been eating well since your shares have been bountiful with wholesome organic food. The very nature
Crop Update from the Farm: CSA Week 21
September 18 – 21, 2017 Some people say that farmers are eternal optimists as they are often heard to say, “there is always next year!”
Modern Day Malnutrition: CSA Week 20
September 11 – 14, 2017 I read an article discussing how the vast US agricultural industrial complex is leaving us malnourished while trying to provide
Q & A with John Bell: CSA Week 19
September 4 – 7, 2017 The vegetables in your share today got to you via a carefully choreographed series of planning, planting, cultivating, harvesting and
Eat Like You Mean It: CSA Week 18
August 28 – 31, 2017 We have used the phrase “walk like you mean it” more than a few times around here over the years
Living Mulches: CSA Week 17
August 21 – 24, 2017 The long season vegetable crop field looks a little hairy, but that is a minor symptom of a great system.
Living on the Edge: CSA Week 16
August 14 – 17, 2017 Elmwood Stock Farm is bisected to the south by US Hwy 460. Seemingly thousands of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and the
Q & A with Cecil Bell: CSA Week 15
August 7 – 10, 2017 You may or may not know that Elmwood Stock Farm is split up into two properties. Cecil Bell grew up