We want to wish you all a happy 4th of July celebration.  The farm has a lovely view of Pilot Butte.  We want to invite you to bring a chair and come on over to view the fireworks Monday evening.  The grey Frig is well stocked with carrots, kale, kohlrabi, swiss chard, garlic scapes, lettuce mix and eggs.

We always get requests for half share CSA bags.  We are now making available “Small Bags” on a weekly basis starting this week through Nov. 17th.  Small Bags are designed to provide 4 to 5 items that can be used together to provide several servings of vegetables.  For example a bag might contain lettuce mix, carrots, green garlic and spinach for making salads or summer squash, onions, garlic, tomatoes and basil.  The vegetables will change as the season progresses.

These Small Bags will be available at the Farm on Thursdays for pick up.  They must be ordered by the end of the preceding Tuesday(sorry for the short notice for this week).  You can order by calling us(541.382.8059), dropping us an Email or using the web form on our new web page www.fieldsfarm.org/farmtowork.  You can also pay with PayPal from the web page.

We will do our best to post at the beginning of the week what is likely to be in the bag but as in the CSA  it may change by the day.  The first weeks item will include Carrots, Garlic Scapes, Greens and more.  The cost of a bag is $10 if paid by check or cash when you pick up your bag and $10.55 if paid electronically through PayPal and $10.30 for each additional week ordered at the same time.

This is an outgrowth of a service called “Farm to Work” that we provide to two different Deschutes County offices for Deschutes County employees as part of their employee wellness program.  The new web page is also set up for their convenience.

Wow, the grey refrigerator is now inside the sales shed and the walls of a new vegetable storage shed are up.  In one day the WWOLF group erected the walls of a veggie storage shed, poured the cement footing for a potato cellar, cleaned and mulched the raspberry beds, rolled up row cover and picked up sandbags, hoed many feet of potatoes and peas as well as everyone was great company.
Thank you so much.
We’re harvesting lettuce mix, carrots and kohlrabi  today for on farm sales.

WWOLF, that stands for Willing Workers on Organic Farms.  We’re having a WWOLF party here on Saturday from 9:00am to 6:00pm.  For the builders in the group we’ll be putting up an insulated vegetable storage shed,  for those who want to get their hands in the dirt we’ll clean the raspberry patch, mulch and transplant.  The kids will be in charge of socializing our new baby chicks and getting our ducks to swim in the pond.  There will be snacks and drinks throughout the day and we’ll be preparing dinner with as many ingredient from the farm as we have right now.  Please come by for any amount of time during the day.  Let us know if you would like to join us for dinner at about 5:00.

After quite a cool spring we are beginning to have enough greens(lettuce mix, mizuna, baby kales) to keep a few bags in the grey refrigerator along with an abundant supply of eggs.  We should have carrot and kohlrabi in a couple weeks.

What an awesome group of potato planters we had on Saturday.  They popped in 12 rows in about 45 minutes and had Jim sprinting down the rows making trenches to keep ahead.  That left plenty of time for the kids to gather on the lawn to teach our new ducks how to eat grass.We followed that activity with making big salads with lots of trimmings. Thank you so much to all who participated.
There is a slide-show of the activities on the website, take a look at http://fieldsfarm.org/slideshows

Even with a very chilly spring the lettuce mix and arugula have been steadily growing.  Bags of Lettuce Mix and Arugula will be in the grey refrigerator for sale after 3:00 today for $4 per bag.

Jim is busy digging furrows to plant potatoes and I’m heading out to harvest our first spring greens for lunch.  Come on by 10:00 for potato planting and noon for lunch.

Would you like to get your hands in the dirt, see the workings of the farm or just eat a good salad?  Fields Farm is having a potato planting and salad potluck.  We’ll provide the greens, you bring one item you like in a salad or a dressing.  We’ll have the plates and utensils.  We’ll plant taters in the morning and after lunch look the farm over.
Day: Saturday, May 7th
10:00 Potato Planting
12:00 Salad Potluck
Bring your family or friends.  Come for any part of the day.
Jim, Debbie and Felicia

Spring is just around the corner with the equinox in just two days.  Winter brought us some needed rest and a couple of ferocious wind storms.  We will be working on yet more creative ways to keep our greenhouses intact.  The sunspace attached to our house went from spacious and roomy to completely full of starts in a 9 day period.  We have lettuce mix, spinach, arugula, chard, kales, leeks, kohlrabi all poking their heads up looking for sun.  Next Monday the first greens will be moved to the cold frames and as ever optimistic farmers we hope our nighttime low temperatures will be above 30 degrees.  There are eggs, shallots and wild rice for sale on the farm.  CSA shares and Farm Bucks are also available.