by fifthcrow | Mar 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our soil finally dried out enough to get out there and work the fields this last week. Mike was able to mow and disc in cover crop in one section of our fields (background of pic with cover crop in foreground) while Darin formed new beds for planting. The crew planted...
by fifthcrow | Mar 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our new Poultry Production Manager started last week. Henry (not to be confused with our livestock guardian dog, Henri) drove out all the way from Missouri to work and live at Fifth Crow this season. He has started right in on irrigation repairs, fence mending, and...
by fifthcrow | Mar 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
We have dried out enough (or almost enough) to finally get the tractor out in the fields again. Darin has been mowing, discing, and spading to prep the land to make new beds for our early springs rounds of plantings and sowings. Brassicas will be first priority for...
by fifthcrow | Mar 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’m sure you are all as happy as we’ve been here at the farm to have had some beautifully sunny, dry days lately. The crew has been out working on repairing the high tunnels as well as doing our winter pruning of the pear and apple trees. Our fields are...
by fifthcrow | Mar 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
CSA News Winter 2017 season: We are now halfway through our first ever winter CSA* season which runs for a total of 14 weeks and it has been both wonderful and challenging. The extreme weather this winter has had a huge impact on our crops and ability to be out in the...
