Rye and vetch cover crop in flower

Cabbage is starting to head up.

 This week's expected harvest (Small shares choose 5 items, large shares choose 7)

spinach

lettuce mix

spicy mix

sugar snap peas 

beet greens

collards

spring radishes

salad turnips

daikon radishes

parsnips

pea shoots

kale

chard

carrots (organic, from Remembrance Farm, Trumansburg)

dry beans (organic, from Seneca Bean and Grain, Penn Yan)

flour (organic, from Farmer Ground Flour, Trumansburg)

vegetable transplants (This is the last week we will be bringing plants to market. We won't be bringing any tomato plants, so they are by request only)

As stated in our previous post, our dog Luna died earlier this year. We could not stay without dogs very long. So we have two new friends living with us - Bella (on the left) and Kennedy (right). If you have been up to the farm recently you know they love to bark at visitors so we are working with them on that issue. But they are friendly and love to play together. 

These slow-growing celeriac plants were seeded over 2 months ago. They were just transplanted yesterday and they will grow all summer before being harvested September - November.

Rows of just-planted and watered bean seeds.

There are so many nests around the farm right now.

Liz has been spending much of her time on the prone weeder using it to transplant. She is very proud because it is always our goal to get all the main transplanting done before markets start in June. I don't think we have ever done it before. But she transplanted the celeriac yesterday and that was the last major crop to get in the ground! Now onto using it mostly for what it is named for - weeding!

Welcome! to Muddy Fingers Farm 20th year of CSA (how can that be?!?!)

This week's expected harvest (Small shares choose 5 items, large shares choose 7)

spinach

lettuce

lettuce mix

spicy mix

sugar snap peas 

beet greens

collards

spring radishes

salad turnips

daikon radishes

parsnips

leeks

rhubarb (not sprayed - not certified organic, from friend's farm)

carrots (organic, from Remembrance Farm, Trumansburg)

dry beans (organic, from Seneca Bean and Grain, Penn Yan)

flour (organic, from Farmer Ground Flour, Trumansburg)

vegetable transplants (we won't be bringing any tomato plants, so they are by request only)

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)