With the garlic popping up and the sunspace filling with starts it’s time to plan for the CSA.  A CSA share will cost $630.00 for a weekly bag of veggies from the 3rd or 4th week in May through the last week in October.  And a bag of storage vegetables at the end of the season.  Let us know if you’re interested in a share.

Yes the first seeds of the season have been planted!  We also popped a few more shallots and garlic in, as we are root people at heart.   Every February we spend two days at Brietenbush for the NW Farmer to Farmer Exchange, always a wonderful time for us to be with our farmer friends.   We brought home some fresh walnuts from our friend, Nick at Torland Orchards.  These are organiclly grown walnuts in the shell.  They are available in 1 lb bags at the stand for $4.50.  We are down to our last few weeks of onions and shallots.  Smaller heads of garlic are plentiful.  Eggs are generally available though we have a day now and then when we are out.  As the day length increases eggs will be more plentiful also.

Well we missed our week of winter while in Santa Cruz visiting my nephew and his wonderful family.  Our new weather station nicely recorded all the details for us, some big winds and 2.7 inches of precipitation.  We also received an offer of organically grown walnuts.  Our friend, Nick Andrews(our first organic certifier through Oregon Tilth many years ago)  bought himself a farm a couple of years ago and now has his first crop of walnuts.
The walnuts are available for 4.50/lb in the shell.  If you would like to order some let me know within a week.  We will be picking them up on Feb. 15th
Eggs, onions, shallots and garlic continue to be available at the farm.

My brother Mark, who grows the delicious wild rice we sell was featured in an article in the Oregonian. Here’s a link to that article;   http://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/index.ssf/2012/01/willamette_valley_clay_soil_is.html

Jim and I want to wish you all a very happy new year.  Today with the help of our cousin Phil we installed a weather station on top of the sales shed.  It is awesome.  If there is weather info you’d like just ask, we got high/low temps, wind speed and direction, dew point, humidity, barometric pressure, chill, precipitation, forecast and more that I don’t know how to read yet.  We can’t wait to have some real weather events!  In the meantime we continue to have eggs, onions, shallots, garlic and wild rice for sale.

Hi Folks,  Potatoes, onions, garlic and shallot will be in the grey refrigerator with ample amounts of eggs until this cold snap passes.  This time of year the frig helps prevent freezing!

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.   

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.