2024 Recap
Our 2024 Season was like any growing season full of successes, challenges, failures and happy accidents. We had a wonderful crew of hard working and good humored farmers. Breezy, Malaika, Sam, Tammy and Anna were joined by Juan and Martin who were here on H2A Visas from Oaxaca Mexico. We also had wonderful volunteers who helped with packing our CSA boxes and staffing or hosting our pickup sites. Our wonderful drivers, Sam, Avery and Ron helped get our produce where it needed to be and of course our amazing admin, Jade who keeps up with emails and puts together all our weekly CSA orders. Each of these people have added so much to our business, our land and our daily lives as we go through the ebbs and flows of the farming season. We are also incredibly grateful for you, our CSA members - we couldn’t be a farm without you!, our local chefs who order directly from our farm and to our partners farther a field to distribute our produce to customers in New York and Philadelphia.
It was a hot and dry season, making some crops a challenge to grow such as spring radishes and greens that prefer a cooler spring, and eggplant, onions and potatoes that enjoy hot weather but would prefer a lot more water than we can provide through irrigation. We are lucky enough to have a plentiful and clean water source that can keep us going through hot and dry weather. Some crops such as tomatoes, peppers and ginger were very happy and we had a great harvest of our heat loving veggies. We were also so lucky to have our crew that was willing to start early in the mornings in order to not work too long in the high heat of the day. This is likely more and more how we will have to function with outside work as our climate changes.
We have lots of changes coming for 2025. We are excited to announce that farm baby #2 should be arriving any week now. Malaika, Ian and Oradel are very excited to be growing their family but it does mean that the season may need to scaled down to accomodate baby life. We are also very excited to announce that our kitchen space on the farm will finally be open in the spring of 2025. This will be our space for CSA pickup, retail food sales, farm to table dinners, cooking classes, certified kitchen to process veggies into sauces and dishes, as well as a manufacturing space for our farm aperitivo and wine. 2025 is an exciting time! But it may mean our CSA offerings will be a little more limited for this coming year to give us some time and space to incorporate all of our new projects. We hope that you can still be involved in our farm in any way that works for you. We are excited to create an open community space focused around good food.
Please see our new CSA info page check out our share options.
Here are some picture highlights from the season (not in any particular order):
