We miss our good friend Luna. She died a few weeks ago of a suspected brain tumor. We had a nice funeral for her with family and friends (picture below). She was still full of energy and love of life and it is tough going into spring without her because she loved the warm weather so much.

Finishing up winter projects like moving and repairing hoophouses

Beans sprouting

It has been hard losing Luna. We could not go without having a dog here on the farm very long. Last week we welcomed a young dog named Kennedy to Muddy Fingers. As you can she has already become quite a "farm dog".

Up until our dog Gemini died almost 2 years ago we had had 2 dogs for quite a while. So now we decided to go from no dogs to 2 dogs again. The dog on the left is Bella. She is 5 months old and we are planning to adopt her today. As you can see, when she and Kennedy met they got along famously.

 

 

Late winter is our time to reorganize. Here we moved our tools and workbench to the back of our washbarn. This will be a much brighter, spacious place for tool storage.

Well, we made it to the last week of winter CSA. We apologize again this year for the lack of salad greens. It is always our goal to have at least one type of salad green available each week but again this year that has not been possible.

We will appreciate the time off from marketing and CSA for a few months. March will hopefully be quiet on the farm aside from starting trays of plants in the greenhouse. Then things really get going once the soil dries out in April. Check back for occasional updates over the next few months.

Expected harvest (Choose 6):

• salad greens?
• kale or collards
• kohlrabi (organic from Stick and Stone Farm)
• celeriac
• long turnips
• watermelon radishes
• daikon radishes
• carrots (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• tetsukabuto squash (dark orange flesh sweet nutty flavor)
• red onions
• garlic 
• potatoes
• chioggia beets (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• flour (organic from Farmer Ground Flour)

 

Its machine maintenance time! It sure is nice to have a dry, warm(ish) space to do it.

Expected harvest (Choose 6):

• salad greens
• kale or collards
• kohlrabi (organic from Stick and Stone Farm)
• celeriac
• long turnips
• watermelon radishes
• daikon radishes
• carrots (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• tetsukabuto squash (dark orange flesh sweet nutty flavor)
• red onions
• garlic 
• potatoes
• chioggia beets (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• flour (organic from Farmer Ground Flour)

 

You can now sign up for our summer CSA through Square. muddy-fingers-farm,square.site or click the Buy Now button on our Facebook page. 

Expected harvest (Choose 6):

• spicy mix
• kale or collards
• kohlrabi (from Stick and Stone Farm)
• celeriac
• long turnips
• watermelon radishes
• daikon radishes
• carrots (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• tetsukabuto squash (dark orange flesh sweet nutty flavor)
• red onions
• garlic 
• potatoes
• chioggia beets (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• flour (organic from Farmer Ground Flour)

 

The Corning Winter Farmers' Market has been cancelled for tomorrow Thursday February 3. Anyone who usually picks up their CSA share in Corning can come to the farm Friday afternoon or to Chamberlain Acres Farmers' Market in Elmira on Sunday instead. Or you can double up next week. Enjoy the snow!!

Expected harvest (Choose 6):

• salad greens???
• baby pac choi
• celeriac
• long turnips
• watermelon radishes
• daikon radishes
• carrots (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• tetsukabuto squash (dark orange flesh sweet nutty flavor)
• red onions
• garlic 
• potatoes
• cabbage
• kale
• chioggia beets (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• flour (organic from Farmer Ground Flour)

 

Liz and Luna both harvesting kale

An afternoon hike in the National Forest. The ski tracks are not ours as we were walking that day. But we have gotten out skiing several times now. Its nice to have the snow stick around for a while.

Please note the summer CSA form is now posted in the links on the right side of this page. Just print and return either by mail or at the farmers' market.

Expected harvest (Choose 6):

• sorry still no salad greens 😢
• baby pac choi
• fennel
• no parsnips until the snow melts
• celeriac
• long turnips
• watermelon radishes
• daikon radishes
• carrots (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• tetsukabuto squash (dark orange flesh sweet nutty flavor)
• red onions
• garlic 
• potatoes
• cabbage
• kale
• beets (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• flour (organic from Farmer Ground Flour)

 

Expected harvest (Choose 6):

• spicy mix or lettuce mix
• salad turnips
• baby pac choi
• fennel
• no parsnips until the snow melts
• celeriac
• grape juice (conventional from Mansfield Farm)
• long turnips
• watermelon radishes
• daikon radishes
• carrots (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• tetsukabuto squash (dark orange flesh sweet nutty flavor)
• butternut squash
• pie pumpkins
• red onions
• garlic 
• potatoes
• cabbage
• chard
• kale
• beets (organic from Remembrance Farm)
• flour (organic from Farmer Ground Flour)