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We lost another section of yet another high tunnel last week 🙁 John was out there building support stakes and almost had them all up before the winds took it down. He says if he had had only one more hour he would've been able to save the tunnel from destruction....

Well, we survived the storm minus some sections of a couple of our high tunnels. Repairs have begun but it means that our winter crops are getting trampled in areas by boots in order to disassemble the structure and rebuild. It also means the sections of the crops...

It's so good to be back!! Have ya missed us?! Well, we survived the rains thank goodness and we hope you did too! We find ourselves at the beginning of another storm here and I hope the CSA totes stay dry! We did unfortunately have to cancel going to markets the...

It's been such a pleasure being your CSA Coordinator this season! I've enjoyed planning your shares, creating beautiful boxes with a diversity of flavors, and writing this weekly newsletter. It's been fun for me to learn quirky facts about veggies, taking photos of...

Well folks, our season is wrapping up so what can I say... It's time to start prepping for next year. Darin and John are working to get strawberry beds made and ready for planting. Our strawberry starts are in the cooler waiting for plant out. They've had to wait...

Registration for our current CSA season is now officially closed so I can focus on setting up the website for our May-November 2017 registration. I'm hoping to have that up and running by mid-November for everyone. I know a few of you have bought shares as holiday...

We've reached 200+ CSA members for the first time in Fifth Crow history!! So I'm taking my break and all of a sudden this large brooder comes "floating" by me. If only I could've captured the smiles on the crews face as they were carrying it over for the new chicks....

We've reached 200 CSA members for the first time in Fifth Crow history!! Rains. Here we are again racing against time to get all the necessary crops in or covered before the rains came last week. We call this rain pressure.. The crew has been working hard trying to...

Our baby chicks arrived! We raise two separate flocks of about 350 hens at a time. All our hens are heritage breeds: Rhode Island Reds, Americaunas, Black Australorps, Welsummers, and California White Leghorns. Our hens are more than free-range, they are pasture...

I can't believe it has already been nine weeks since I brought up the issue of CSA memberships around the country struggling. (You can refer back to newsletter #11 if you need to remind yourself of the issue and some of the reasons why CSA membership has fallen across...

Our first rains were expected to arrive this last weekend so it's been a mad dash to get the dry beans threshed and into covered bins. Rain is not good for dry beans! We also needed to get the shallots inside under cover. They had been pulled from the field weeks ago...

Many of the dry bean varieties have been pulled up in the field. In the past we have planted 2 acres of dry beans and this year we planted 5! Once the plants are pulled they finish drying out on large pieces of landscape cloth. We then thresh, sort and clean mostly by...

Our storage onions spent approximately two weeks curing in the fields and then they made their way into a countless number of crates to be brought in from the fields for storage. They were initially brought to pack out mid-week last week and placed on pallets but the...

We are now at the Grand Lake Farmers Market in Oakland!!! We've made it across the Bay folks! We had our first debut there Saturday September 3rd and you can find us there any Saturday you wish now. The market is open from...

Eating seasonally is a lost practice by most of us who are so lucky to live in an area where a huge variety of foods/nutrition are at our finger tips year round but it makes us forget that food has seasons and cycles. Isn't it a great thing though when you find...