Colleen Hotchkiss2018 Colleen doesn’t know what day it is (#carefree)Having gotten past the initial difficulty adjusting to life without the farm, I’ve settled in quite comfortably to unemployment, embracing…Feb 17, 2018Feb 17, 2018
Colleen HotchkissA farmer without a farm (for now)It’s been a full month since my last day of work at Veggielution — a full month not farming. While I have welcomed the time off and the…Jan 22, 2018Jan 22, 2018
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielution’Tis the season (for tractor work, trellis takedown, transition)Despite the unseasonably warm weather, this week was full of typical fall tasks: discing fields in preparation for fall veggies, pulling…Oct 27, 2017Oct 27, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionSouth Bay solidarity with our North Bay neighborsAs seems to be the case more often than not these days, this week was dominated by natural disaster. The North Bay wildfires have been at…Oct 13, 2017Oct 13, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionA mow-mentous occasion!It was a momentous week on the farm, in more ways than one, but the front page news of the week is that our mower is back in action! After…Sep 29, 2017Sep 29, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionFall is here! (well, at least according to the calendar)It’s official: today is the first day of Fall! However, while we’ve been enjoying the wonderful weather this week on the farm, we can’t say…Sep 22, 2017Sep 22, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionJoin us on the farm tomorrowAfter the record-breaking heat wave that hit the Bay Area over the weekend, we returned to the farm this week to much cooler weather here…Sep 8, 2017Sep 8, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionFarm Stand is CLOSED tomorrow: stay home and stay cool!While the week started out pretty normally, with our Tuesday harvest and some productive field work with our interns, the heat wave has…Sep 1, 2017Sep 1, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionYou won’t even recognize the Farm Stand!This week saw more major progress in our tomatoes, as we finished installing trellis on our second planting. Just one more morning of…Aug 26, 2017Aug 26, 2017
Colleen HotchkissinVeggielutionSummer is still going strong!Another week has come and gone and here we are in the middle of August! This week marks the halfway point in our Farm Box CSA, which runs…Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
