Hi friends! Corinna here this week! Normally Farmer Kurt writes these Field Reports, but if you’ve seen him lately, you probably understand why I’m taking over. September is always intense on the farm, and this particular week seemed to have about three weeks’ worth of activity packed into it. So I’m giving him a pass…
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So… we are swimming in watermelons over here. You know how farming goes: you wait and wait for a crop to be ready… and then suddenly ALL OF IT IS READY AT THE SAME TIME. That’s pretty much what happened with our watermelons this year. They came on so fast and furious that we actually…
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The Weird Reflux Treatment I’d Never Heard Of {Welcome! This is Part 10 of my ongoing Gut Healing Journey blogpost — a series where I’m documenting the twists, turns, experiments, and breakthroughs that helped me recover from a debilitating season of acid reflux, bloating, burping, and digestive distress that began in 2024. In this chapter,…
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Well… we’re back. It’s Corinna writing the blog post this week! Farmer Kurt is busy getting the lay of the land again after our return from a week away on vacation! We rolled back into Ohio last night after spending the week in San Antonio, Texas, where we got to watch our oldest son, Jed,…
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When Corinna asked me what we did this week — I had to think. It feels like our week was consumed with long days harvesting. The rainy, wet conditions make this tougher to do. It was muggy and wet and muddy — everywhere. I was often “pre-harvesting” during the dry windows, so we wouldn’t get…
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This week felt like one of those weeks where we could actually see the season shifting. The summer crops are really starting to arrive, our fall planting is wrapping up, and (perhaps the biggest news of all) we officially made our first Farmer’s Bag Toledo delivery! Farmer’s Bag Toledo Is Officially Underway Friday was our…
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Woah. Somehow we’ve already reached the one-third mark of our CSA season. That’s hard for me to believe. The farm is shifting into a different gear, as we start to pivot and move into “mid-summer” crops and say good-bye to some of our spring brassicas and greens. The walk-in coolers are filling faster than we…
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On Thursday morning, we woke up thinking a heavy fog had settled over the farm. As soon as we stepped outside, though, we realized it wasn’t fog at all. It was SMOKE! The air smelled like a campfire. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires had drifted into northern Ohio, and by mid-morning, you could actually feel…
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One of the hardest things about being a vegetable farmer is knowing that while we’re harvesting thousands of pounds of beautiful, fresh food every week, there are families in our own community who struggle to put healthy food on the table, because they can’t afford it. That tension has stayed with us for a long…
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Rain, weeds, sweet corn, and saying goodbye Well, we sure got our rain this week. Our farm measured right around three inches, which is enough to make any farmer stop and pay attention. For a day or two, we had standing water in several places around the farm, but thankfully our fields drained remarkably well.…
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