Week 8, August 27th – 31st, 2019 Variability of Box Volume I wrote about volume vs value in Week 5 of Farm News. The volume approach was a reliable way to fill everyone’s box the same [...]

Week 7, August 20th – 24th, 2019 Huh? This year, this part of the season is a bit like waking up at 2 in the morning and wondering why the sun isn’t up…or waking up and thinking I am [...]

Week 6, August 13th – 17th, 2019 Predicting The Future of Your Vegetables and Herbs A few days before the delivery of your farm share, I evaluate the crops and decide what will be available [...]

Week 5, August 6th – 10th, 2019 Weather In the spring, as rivers of unheavenly rain waterfalled from the heavens, I wondered if we would have a growing season at all. As of this writing, it [...]

Week 4, July 30th – August 3rd There’s Farming and then There’s Trucking My dad occasionally said that if our family was delayed a few minutes in our departure, that maybe that delay caused [...]

Week 3, July 23rd – 27th Our third week of harvest is underway. I am reminded of the of complexity of managing a CSA farm–the overlapping and sometimes conflicting rhythms of the many [...]

Week 2, July 16th – 20th Welcome For some of you who receive a 10-week vegetable share and your deliveries start this week, welcome to our 2019 season. In case you missed Week 1 Farm News, [...]

Week 1, July 9th – 13th Welcome to our 2019 weather adventure–the wettest spring since Illinois started keeping records; hence our late start of your deliveries. In fact, it has been [...]

Pre-Season Farm Update We hope you enjoy this pre-season farm update. Deliveries of full 20-week shares will start the week of July 8. Some 10-week half shares will start the following week. [...]