Temporary work available...

Here at Muddy Fingers Farm Mother Nature has delayed our already compressed Spring planting schedule 1 week and it looks like it will be another several days before we can think about getting the rototiller and our fingers into the soil. Therefore, it would be very helpful to have somebody or somebodies to help out here at the farm on a temporary basis. The work schedule would be very flexible. If anyone out there is interested, call or email us for details. 607-546-4535; maglenn_1999@yahoo.com

 We still only have photos of cute little plants growing inside. Because of the weather we are quickly falling behind on our planting schedule. Usually we would be tilling the soil and planting outside. The week's forecast does not look promising - cold and rainy. We will try to enjoy some time off though!

 Last year we lost many crops and thousands of dollars to crops getting flooded by too much rainwater coming off the sides of our hoophouses. We had never had the problem before but it was a very wet spring last year. So this year we bought a bunch of aluminum gutters and 4 inch drain pipe. We connected them all underneath the sides of the tunnels and the drain pipe carries the rainwater away towards the hedgerows. They are easy to install (and remove once the weather dries up??!!) They were working great this morning!

We are taking a breather as all the essential items have been crossed off of our To Do list.

Please don't forget:
Barn-warming Party/Plant Sale 
Muddy Fingers Farm
Party: 2:00-5:00; Plant Sale: 9:00-5:00

We will have lots of Spring vegetable and flower plants for your early garden (we know there are lots of people out there who are anxious for some warmer weather so they can get their fingers muddy).
And the current forecast for Saturday? 50 degrees and sunny!
***Free dozen eggs if you sign up for a CSA share this Saturday***
 

Hi all, we're beginning to wonder if the ground will ever dry up enough for planting!?

The delay is made more tolerable by the fact that we can't do anything about the weather and that we just put a ping pong table in our new washbarn! 

We are inviting everyone to a:

Barn Warming Party 

Saturday April 21st from 

2:00-5:00.  

There will be goat petting, farm tours, snacks in the new barn, chicken gazing, a chance to look in the greenhouse and see what's growing, look in the pond for signs of life, and a plant sale.  There's a chance the orchard will be in bloom. And if you've never seen our farm (or if you've seen it a lot), we encourage you to come!

We won't be at markets regularly again until the first week of June.  But there are lots of ways to keep in touch with our progress as we get your CSA shares ready for you!

We are on instagram. We post about twice a week about what's going on.  (@muddy_fingers_farm)
We are on facebook, and if you look to the right you can sign up to receive any post on this blog as an email.

Lastly, if you'd like to recieve a text to remind you about the farmers' markets (it goes out about an hour before market starts with just a line or so about what's new) go to http://farmfanapp.com/messages/business/465/

hope your spring is great!
liz and matthew

Last week of Winter CSA

Today in Corning and tomorrow in Elmira are the final days for the Muddy Fingers Farm Winter CSA. We have a small amount of greens again this week for CSA only. We will be at market in March with a limited selection of produce.

 To increase egg production, we have been giving the chickens an early wake-up call using lights on a timer.

 Here at Muddy Fingers Farm we all enjoy eating old, frozen kale stems. How about you?

The completed wash barn (with solar panels on left and right side of the roof!) Now it just needs a mural/farm name painted on. Anyone feeling creative?


Please don't forget about the upcoming CSA season. We are now accepting payments. Just print out the form and send it in or meet us one our winter markets!

After a cold hike in the National Forest. The dogs are Gemini (left) and Luna (right). Gemini has a nice coat of fur, but Luna does not like this weather as she has very little fur. Unfortunately she hates wearing the coat Liz made for her. They both love running though, especially Luna.

Our new walk-ion cooler. Just this morning we moved our storage crops into our new cooler which is located...

 ...inside our new building. This photo is several weeks old. The building is now finished. We will move our old walk in cooler over to our new building next week so we will have 2 coolers now. The new building will house all of our vegetable washing and processing paraphernalia. Plus a bathroom. Those members who pick up their share on the farm will appreciate the lights now in the coolers.

   

Our seed orders have already been placed. These are the catalogues from we which we order. Maybe some of you are doing a similar job ordering seeds for your vegetable and flower gardens during these cold, snowy days.

Muddy Fingers Farm CSA
Please check out the link on the right side of this page. You can print out our 2018 CSA form  and join today!

Come pick up your final CSA share tomorrow at Grove Park. After that we will be at Chamberlain Acres Sundays 11:00 - 3:00. And at The Corning Indoor Winter Farmers' Market 11:00 - 3:00 on Saturdays.