We will have Fields Farm Garlic and Onion powder blends, along with Wild Rice, potatoes, onions and shallots at the Locavor Holiday Fair this Saturday Dec. 10th from 10am to 4pm at the Locavor warehouse on Wilson and 9th.  We’ll be there with about 30 other vendors for a fun day of visiting, shopping and holiday activities.  Come on by!

Winter weather is on it’s way and Thanksgiving is around the corner.  We have potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots and wild rice for your Thanksgiving dinner. Our egg supply is down slightly but most days eggs are available.  Be grateful and enjoy the season.

Several people have asked if we still have produce.  Yes we do!  We have some great roots; german butterball potatoes, wilcox purple potatoes, chieftain reds, our lovely mild stutgarter yellow onion, shallots, pitarelli garlic and the last of the beets.  There’s also wild rice with new recipe cards available.  We’ll have kale for a couple more weeks.  The hens know the time of the year for slowing down is coming.  Occasionally we may be out of eggs but this weekend we have a good supply.   

Thanks to the WWOLF crew that came to the farm last weekend and harvested onions, potatoes, shallots and tomatoes, and weeded and more, including some good eating. Here is a slideshow of the festivities. The photos are by Centraloregonlocavore.If you are reading this in an email, it might not show up, so click on over to the website.

We have deer visiting the farm!  Many of you know that when the sales shed door is closed we have not harvested.   However we’ve been having deer visitors most nights and not only do they munch on the veggies in the field but also think we’ve put out a buffet on the sales table.  So if the door is completely closed we have not harvested, but if it’s only closed enough to prevent deer from coming in, feel free to open the door and help yourself.
We also have many new visitors to our website and facebook page.  For those of you who have not been out to the farm yet to buy veggies, we want to invite you to come on out.  Our farm is at 61915 Pettigrew Road.  Enter the farm at our mailbox on the north end of the property.  Come down the driveway to the house.  There is ample parking at the sales shed.  We have  self-service sales, there is a large dry erase board listing the vegetables with their prices.  Choose your vegetable, then record your purchases in the spiral notebook in the green box.  Put the notebook and money in the green back in the green box.  There is usually no more than $1.50 in change.  We are happy to accept checks.  If you would like help please come to the house or give a honk of your horn(don’t worry we don’t consider a horn honk impolite just a means of communication).
We will have 4 to 5 varieties of potatoes, onions, garlic, 3 varieties of kale, swiss chard , beets and eggs most always available until Thanksgiving. Fall lettuce mix, tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, cabbages, cauliflower are also currently available.  If you would like to buy in quantities that are not packed please come get us. 

This Saturday the WWOLF(willing workers on local farms) Pack will be meeting at Drake Park at 9:00 am and bicycling to Fields Farm to help out on the Farm, lunch and dinner will be served.  This is kid friendly, in fact its a Kidical Mass ride.  Join us!  More info at:http://www.bikearoundbend.com/2011/09/ride-with-the-wwolf-pack/

We’ll be celebrating Labor Day with a refrigerator full of harvest bounty.  We have 3 kinds of  beans(Blue Lake, Burgundy and Romano Flat), yellow and red potatoes, onions, garlic, 3 kinds of kale, swiss chard, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower(purple too!), summer squash, tomatoes, parsley and basil.  There’s also plenty of eggs and wild rice.  We’ll be pulling shallots tomorrow and some will be dried and cleaned by market next Wednesday.  We also have small bags for $10 every Thursday.  Let us know the day ahead if you want us to pack you a bag.

This week we have a nice full refrigerator.  There are beets, cauliflower, kohlrabi, summer squash, as usual lots of kales, potatoes, onions, garlic and RASPBERRIES.  We are having a bumper crop of raspberries and this looks like the heaviest production week.  We’ll try to keep enough picked to have them available in the blue cooler.  Plenty of eggs too.

After a wonderful week break of boating we’re gearing up for a busy August.  We have not one but TWO events this month.  On Friday, August 19th at 6:00 pm we’ll be down at Common Table for Meet your Farmer night.  Bethlyn Rider will be preparing a delicious meal and we’ll be doing a presentation on the history of our farm.  See either the Common Table  or Central Oregon Locavor Websites for tickets.
For our second event we’ll be hosting the Small Farms Conservancy dinner on Saturday, August 27th at 5:00 pm.  Some of you may remember we hosted this event 2 years ago and I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say a good time was had by all.  The food and the entertainment were great and the proceeds go to a fine organization. See the Small Farmer’s Journal website for information and tickets.
A big thank you to Jeremy, Jason, Colleen, Joyti, Janell and anyone else who stopped by to help during our week away.  We really appreciate you!

It looks like the warm summer weather is here and that brings on plenty of produce.  We will have a full refrigerator this weekend.  There are lots of eggs, all kinds of kale, new potatoes, a small golden turnip(we had them last night for dinner, they are delicious), swiss chard, beets, basil, spinach and more.