Turnip Rock Farm – Community Supported Agriculture

We have only 5 full shares left for sale and we are sold out of single shares!  If you have recently tried signing up but had trouble, please email us at turniprock@gmail.com  We don’t want anyone to miss out!  Here’s the link to sign-up online.

Wow!!  Things have really grown in the last month!

lovely lettuce!

TLC for the plants

quite a lot of plants to water

future red cabbage. so pretty!

remeber how the tomato plants looked less than a month ago?!

Farmer Josh!

direct seeding earlier this month

peas, spinach, beets, and carrots are all planted and sprouted!

Otto loves tractors (big surprise, right?)

onion planting by hand. takes a long time and a lot of bending over and over and over and over!

All planted by hand and with love! lookin good, onions!

transplanting broccoli. making room in the greenhouse for the next round of baby veggies!

happy farmer!

Welcome, Cassandra!

Tooya and Otto checking out the planting

kale, collards, chard, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage are in the field!

the boss checking everything out

Not pictured are the many many many hours spent picking rocks out of the fields by hand.  Everyone is warmed up for the rest of the season!  Check back  for up-dates.  In a month and a half we will be sending out the first boxes!  Happy May Day!

We have shares left, but anticipate that we will be full up on our membership by the end of the month.  If you have not reserved your spot yet, please go to our website and do so now!  If you can’t remeber if you have signed up for the season and would like to double check, email us or give us a call.  We don’t want anyone to get left out!

We have been keeping with our normal planting schedule in the greenhouse.  We’ve been through several seasons of all types of weather and the only thing that has been consistant is that  the weather can turn on a dime.  With the warm Spring, we have gone through less than half the amount of propane that we would in a normal year to heat our greenhouses.  The plants are happily growing.  We will be doing direct seeding in the field likely this week.  We are just waiting on our soil to dry up a little bit more to avoid compaction and waiting for the soil temp to go up a bit more so the seeds will germinate better.

Here’s a look in the greenhouse.

heirloom tomatoes for the greenhouse

green magic!

Onions!

in the onion jungle!

lookin good!

We also moved the laying hens from their winter locations out to the pasture where they will live with the cows and eat lots of grass and bugs and lay the healthiest eggs that are THE BEST!  Sorry if you  haven’t signed up, yet….  Egg shares are  SOLD OUT for 2012.

Winter Home

Winter Home

on the move

grand opening!

farmer Josh, farmer Otto, and the 2012 laying flock

Craig and Lauren are back for another season! Welcome Derek!